Mister Moggridge Has Mad Ambition Believe it or not, the U.S. has a national design museum. This Englishman wants to make you care.
Updated Fri Feb 3, 2012
The United States Of Design Around the globe, American designers have never been more influential.
Updated Fri Feb 3, 2012
Chevy, Pepsi, and Doritos Turn Fan-Made Super Bowl Ads Into Brand Buzz Chevy is the latest to ditch Madison Avenue and ask fans to create its Super Bowl ad. Past examples show the move isn't just cost effective--it builds brands' buzz (we have stats!) and helps young careers.
Updated Fri Feb 3, 2012
Private Spacecrafts Are Your Transportation, Your Scientists, And Your Real Estate Brokers In the absence of NASA's Space Shuttle Program, private companies are left to fill the black hole of space exploration. Now, 50 years after John Glenn orbited the Earth, some very different kinds of explorers are leading the way.
Updated Tue Jan 31, 2012
Beatbully's Modern Anti-Cyberbullying Campaign Uses Avatars As Demonstrators An army of protestors will descend upon UN headquarters in New York on February 2 in an effort to end bullying worldwide. Here's the catch: The protesters are online cartoons.
Updated Tue Jan 31, 2012
NBC's "Smash" Could Learn A Few Lessons From "Glee's" Musical Missteps Fox's "Glee" is slumping in its third season--but does that mean people are losing interest in TV musicals? NBC's new Broadway-focused drama, "Smash" is about to find out. Three industry pros share tips on how "Smash" can avoid "Glee's" missteps and become, well, a smash.
Updated Tue Jan 31, 2012
Conference Calendar: February 2012 Our look at events this month.
Updated Tue Jan 31, 2012
Showtime's 'House Of Lies' Turned My Life As A Consultant Into A TV Drama When TV writers rewrote this MBA's life, they changed everything but the truth.
Updated Tue Jan 31, 2012
Signature Theatre Company Opens Its New Gehry-Designed Digs
Signature Theatre Company's new Frank Gehry-designed home opens this February.
Updated Tue Jan 31, 2012
The Case For Girls Most would-be parents prefer boys, not girls.
Is part of the trouble, dare we say, a branding problem--one that advertising could solve?
Updated Mon Jan 30, 2012
MakerBot's 3-D Printers Let Consumers Dream Up Prototypes Of Pretty Much Anything. But Do We Need More Plastic? Bre Pettis's MakerBot has attracted millions in financing and is selling its 3-D printers as fast as it can.
So how big can his business get? (And why does the world need more crap made out of plastic?)
Updated Mon Jan 30, 2012
Forget QR Codes: Pongr Easily Turns Your Photos Into Brand Rewards When brands ask consumers to snap a product photo and text or email it in, Pongr recognizes the image and replies. Is that really better than QR codes? We asked its president.
Updated Fri Jan 27, 2012
Martin Scorsese On Vision In Hollywood How Marty Scorsese risked it all and lived to risk again in Hollywood.
Updated Thu Jan 26, 2012
This Is Generation Flux: Meet The Pioneers Of The New (And Chaotic) Frontier Of Business The future of business is pure chaos. Here's how you can survive--and perhaps even thrive.
Updated Tue Jan 24, 2012
Revitalizing The Muppets Franchise This month's The Muppets movie tries to reverse decades of brand mismanagement.
Updated Tue Jan 24, 2012
Patents By The Numbers: Average Wait Time Is Down, But Trolls Cost Us $80 Billion A Year Starting last fall and stretching through mid-2013, the U.S. has been overhauling the patent-approval process for the first time since 1952. The biggest change: our first-to-invent system, which favors creators, will become a first-to-file system, which favors . . . whoever files first. Our experts check the numbers.
Updated Tue Jan 24, 2012
First Street Gives Washington Insiders Their Own Social Network What happens when
a Washington phone book goes digital?
Updated Tue Jan 24, 2012
The Earl of Sandwich's Sandwich Man Selling food
is a lot like anything else: You need a good story.
Updated Tue Jan 24, 2012
