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Outdoor Voices x Merrell hiking boots are a shoe collab we can get behind

The new Moab 2 hiking boot combines Merrell’s outdoor adventure prowess with the style of Outdoor Voices.

Outdoor Voices x Merrell hiking boots are a shoe collab we can get behind

Innovation By Design

Inside FDNY’s Rescue Company 2, a training facility built to simulate disasters

The FDNY Rescue company 2 by Studio Gang facility is a 2020 Innovation by Design honoree.

Inside FDNY’s Rescue Company 2, a training facility built to simulate disasters

Innovation By Design

An irreverent creativity hub for McDonald’s

The work of Studio O+A has earned 2020 Innovation by Design honors.

An irreverent creativity hub for McDonald’s

Innovation By Design

This radically reimagined face shield is a worker’s dream

The Innovation by Design honoree created a face shield for people in food service, teachers, and nonemergency medical workers.

This radically reimagined face shield is a worker’s dream

Innovation By Design

The VanMoof S3 is a smarter electric bike for urban streets

The VanMoof S3 is a 2020 Innovation by Design award winner.

The VanMoof S3 is a smarter electric bike for urban streets

Innovation By Design

This incredible 3D printing technique generates impossible objects

Illusory Material, the winner of the Experimental category in the 2020 Innovation by Design Awards, is a method for designing and printing dynamic objects, with potential applications in fashion, packaging, and consumer products.

This incredible 3D printing technique generates impossible objects

These silver-lined, antimicrobial face masks and gloves are perfect for running errands in the COVID-19 era

Eco-grocer Grove Collaborative has a new line of hand sanitizers, masks, and errand gloves that will keep you, your family, and your planet safe during the pandemic.

These silver-lined, antimicrobial face masks and gloves are perfect for running errands in the COVID-19 era

Fast Company Magazine

Why mushrooms are a miracle material—and might be your new favorite meat

How ideas foundry Ecovative transforms mushrooms into everyday materials (including bacon).

Why mushrooms are a miracle material—and might be your new favorite meat

Editor’s Pick: I recommend this face mask to everyone

The Vistaprint face mask is comfortable, washable, and has perfectly fitted filters that you can stock up on.

Editor’s Pick: I recommend this face mask to everyone

He green-lighted Netflix hits “Love is Blind,” “Queer Eye,” and “Cheer.” Here’s how he picks reality TV concepts.

For making Netflix a go-to platform for nonscripted shows including “Love is Blind,” “Queer Eye,” and “Cheer,” Brandon Riegg is one of Fast Company’s Most Creative People of 2020.

He green-lighted Netflix hits “Love is Blind,” “Queer Eye,” and “Cheer.” Here’s how he picks reality TV concepts.

Fast Company Magazine

Bill Gates-backed founder Bill Gross has a plan to save the world from fossil fuels

For inventing Heliogen, a sustainable alternative to using fossil fuels for industrial heating, Bill Gross is one of Fast Company’s Most Creative People of 2020

Bill Gates-backed founder Bill Gross has a plan to save the world from fossil fuels

Fast Company Magazine

This former TV producer has solved toothpaste’s sustainability problems

For inventing Bite Toothpaste Bits, a sustainable alternative to throwaway toothpaste tubes, Lindsay McCormick is one of Fast Company’s Most Creative People of 2020.

This former TV producer has solved toothpaste’s sustainability problems

ACLU director on how the conservative Supreme Court has made three liberal rulings

During an exclusive ‘Fast Company’ event, the executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union revealed its strategy of leaning into small victories, while still advocating systemic overhauls.

ACLU director on how the conservative Supreme Court has made three liberal rulings

Leigh Stein’s ‘Self Care’ chronicles the rise and reckonings of the girlboss era

The author’s debut novel presciently captures the girlboss era right as it seems to be coming to an end.

Leigh Stein’s ‘Self Care’ chronicles the rise and reckonings of the girlboss era

Six experts on how we’ll live, work, and play in cities after COVID-19

Architects and urban planners from Gensler, Harvard, and Bloomberg Associates explain the changes coming to our shared spaces.

Six experts on how we’ll live, work, and play in cities after COVID-19

This ‘travel jumpsuit’ was designed for flying in a pandemic

If you have to fly, you’ll want to fly in this.

This ‘travel jumpsuit’ was designed for flying in a pandemic

‘We may have to rethink the toilet seat altogether’: How the coronavirus could change bathrooms for the better

“U.S. businesses don’t seem to understand like European businesses that having clean, safe, nice bathrooms is better for their bottom line.”

‘We may have to rethink the toilet seat altogether’: How the coronavirus could change bathrooms for the better

Fast Company Magazine

This pea-size device helps fix holes in babies’ hearts

The Amplatzer Piccolo Occluder—a winner of Fast Company’s 2020 World Changing Ideas Awards—helps fix a congenital heart defect that occurs in some newborns.

This pea-size device helps fix holes in babies’ hearts

Most Innovative Companies

How a nature documentary inspired a cutting-edge design that shrinks massive warehouses into the space of an office building

Attabotics uses robots to fetch products quicker, and in smaller spaces.

How a nature documentary inspired a cutting-edge design that shrinks massive warehouses into the space of an office building

McDonald’s, KFC, Dunkin’, Subway: Why Beyond Meat is suddenly everywhere

In 2019, it introduced beef crumbles, sausage, and shockingly delicious fake chicken for KFC

McDonald’s, KFC, Dunkin’, Subway: Why Beyond Meat is suddenly everywhere

Impact

It would cost just $330 billion to end global hunger by 2030

We need a new definition of corporate climate leadership

Fast Company Magazine

If we want more companies like Patagonia, we need laws to enforce it

News

STEM careers require the same kind of creative thinking as the arts, says new research

Barnes & Noble warns customers about cyberattack in new email alert

How to watch the Biden and Trump town halls on ABC and NBC live (if you must)

Co.Design

How one tiny accessory popularized some of the most iconic slogans of the 20th century

The death toll from COVID-19 has been devastating. And it’s just the beginning

One of the strongest ways to fight misinformation will soon be right in your phone

Work Life

How to inspire your team during a crisis without falling into toxic positivity

These 3 lessons from the triathlon steeled me for the C-Suite—and the pandemic

Why you should still take vacation time during the pandemic