Topic: Vanity Fair Magazine

Why You Should Care About Sean Parker: The Man Behind Napster, Facebook, and Chatroulette

Sean Parker is already famous in today's Web-connected tech world, mythical perhaps. But he's about to get even more famous thanks to a Vanity Fair profile and a movie that's indirectly about his life. READ»

Haitian Artisans Hotify Celebrities' Homes With Their Original Designs

Forget Wyclef. Brandaid is helping the Haitian economy by giving it its own star power.READ»

A History of Green Brands: 2000's Thousands of Flowers Bloom

This decade was a tipping point for the sustainability movement and this piece, written by Landor Associates' Russ Meyers, looks at the promotion and expansion of green brands.With the beginning of a new decade came new interest in ...READ»

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Designing a Movement: Seven Principles for Sustainable Action

Valerie Casey recaps her Designers Accord keynote from last week's SXSW Interactive festival, and includes some suggestions for action designers can take today.READ»

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Communication Innovation in Action: Propelling Business Forward in Today’s Reinvention Economy

As the recession begins to slowly loosen its chokehold on the global economy, the Reinvention Economy pushes forward with a new-found urgency. Companies are delivering re-inventive programs and consumers are demanding them.READ»

Poll: Wal-Mart Brand Most Symbolizes America

Which brand do you think Americans most associate with America? Coca Cola? Google? A Vanity Fair/60 Minutes poll found that almost half of all Americans say Wal-Mart best symbolizes America today, with the mega-retailer notching 48% ...READ»

See More Seymour: Chwast's "Obsessive Images"

One of graphic design's most respected artists showcases five decades of art in The Obsessive Images of Seymour Chwast.READ»

Contributors

Nancy Lublin Columnist Nancy Lublin's day job is running Do Something, a not-for-profit organization inspiring and supporting 11 million youth volunteers. But she credits a decidedly adult pastime with sharpening her business ...READ»

The Year's Best Magazine Design

The Society of Publication Designers, SPD, announced the finalists for its yearly magazine design awards. This year's entrants are terrific eye candy. The awards are considered one of the industry's premier laurels. There are too ...READ»

Seven Curious Things Online This Week

Torture, sex, killer robots, cheap hacked iPhones and Julia Allison (did we mention torture?). This week was a good one in the Web world. You can now find photos of your friends more easily on Facebook, or find yourself on Facebook endorsing a "friend" you never meant to. Or just watch Christopher Hitchens get pretend-drowned, if you're feeling that semi-violent spring fever. It's all below in FastCompany.com's seven best things this week.READ»

Why Does Tesla Get All the Love? It's Selling California, Not Cars

Yesterday, Tesla Motors fulfilled its stereotype as a Silicon Valley startup by botching the unveiling of its second major product launch, the four-door Model S sedan. The feverish response to the news--from Digg co-founder Kevin ...READ»

Fast Company Recommended Events April 2009

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• Numerology: The Golf Economy
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Why Customers Will Pay You to Restrain Them

We worry about many things. Our kids' grades, our parents' health, the world at large. (Also, will all those unemployed investment bankers have enough to eat?) Add to that list one really odd thing we worry about: our own future ...READ»

• Successful Experiments in Customer Restraint

The End of the Financial World as We Know It

By MICHAEL LEWIS and DAVID EINHORN AMERICANS enter the New Year in a strange new role: financial lunatics. We’ve been viewed by the wider world with mistrust and suspicion on other matters, but on the subject of money even our ...READ»

Kindle 2 Ships February 24, $359

The rumors and photos of the Kindle 2 that leaked over the weekend were accurate. Now we're at Amazon's official press conference with Jeff Bezos filling in the details: 5-way controller for more fluid navigation. 16 shades of ...READ»

Contributors

Kevin Van Aelst For this issue's Now section, artist Kevin Van Aelst created a fictitious holiday world to spell out the words "December & January." He arranged bits of a broken champagne flute in the spot where he once dropped ...READ»

Leaders Thrive on Information

Leaders need to be both broad and deep, and it helps if they can figure out what is coming. Where do they look for the right sorts of information?READ»

Pop!Tech: Ending the Conference Bag Arms Race

Rather than saddle participants with yet another logo-ridden conference bag, Timbuk2 and Pop!Tech conspired to create a cool bag that attendees could use -- and then pay forward.READ»

Green Guru Gone Wrong: William McDonough

William McDonough, the godfather of green design, has been hailed by everyone from Hollywood to Silicon Valley to the Chinese government as the environmental savior. His radical "cradle to cradle" idea -- in which every product, building, and city is designed in an infinite loop with zero waste -- has earned him the Presidential Design Award for Sustainable Development. He was Time's "Hero for the Planet" and has been profiled in documentaries from Thomas Friedman's "Addicted to Oil" to Leonardo DiCaprio's "The Eleventh Hour." And yet, McDonough may in fact be paralyzing his own design revolution.READ»

The Return of the Boy Band

With the early success of the newest Jonas Brothers album, the American teen idol--as opposed to kid idol--has finally dusted itself off. So-called bubblegum pop last ruled in pre-9/11 and pre-TMZ America, when high schoolers still ...READ»

Once upon a Brand

Once upon a time in a competitive market called Reality, there was a savvy organization led by people who understood the power of storytelling. They knew that humans have been touched by stories since their childhood. A wonderful ...READ»

The Future of Media is Murky

This decade has spurred on a lengthy requiem for print media, a lament indicated in part by countless blogs covering media news, as well as news items reporting the downsizing of newsrooms. And if Wednesday's hour-long expert panel ...READ»

The Clinton Campaign: Tomorrow Never Dies

In an e-mail today addressed to her supporters, Hillary Clinton offered her thanks and expressed a willingness to help the Democratic party unite behind Senator Obama. On Saturday, she plans to hold an event in Washington that will ...READ»

How to Launch a Career With Your Blog

Your blog can get you the career of your dreams. READ»

Parsing Pentagram

One of Pentagram's design partners explores his design philosophy, practice, and process.READ»