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How Idiocracy's Stupid Corporate Logos Were Designed
Mike Judge's sadly overlooked comedy Idiocracy is teeming with imaginary logos from a distant future in which stupidity has become the status quo, and brands run the gamut from the FedSexxx to...
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A Designer's Guide To Launching A Successful Kickstarter
They call her the crowdsourceress. Vann Alexandra Daly is a New York-based crowd funding consultant who was responsible for marketing the record-making $6 million Kickstarter campaign for Neil Young's...
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Let AutoCAD Show You How To Mix More Than 70 Classic Cocktails
When engineers meet after work for drinks, they design their cocktails the same way they design anything else, apparently: in the modeling software AutoCAD. Created by engineer Shaan Hurley, CAD Drinks...
View ArticleThe Most Beautiful iPhone Charger We've Ever Seen
Wondering if there was a way to design her way around the disadvantages of wireless charging, interactive designer Alice Robbiani created the Spira, a sculptural charger that turns an iPhone into a...
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The Anonymous Gods Of Google Street View
When one of Google's ladybug-like Street View cars goes a-roaming, it inevitably passes all sorts of people walking down the streets. What keeps these bystanders anonymous is one of the search giant's...
View ArticleThe Eames's "Powers Of Ten" Is Now An iPhone App
In the classic documentary Powers of Ten, Charles and Ray Eames examine the relative scale of the universe and our own place within those orders of magnitude. Powers of Ten has been so influential that...
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How Many Of These Abstract Movie Posters Can You Guess?
Can you recognize the poster to The Godfather without Marlon Brando stroking a cat? Or A Clockwork Orange's poster without Malcolm McDowell getting all droogy with his knife? Or Jurassic Park's poster...
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Designing User Interfaces Is Now As Easy As Putting Stickers On A Trapper...
Back in the '80s, Lisa Frank inspired an entire generation of kids to cover everything they owned with colorful, neon stickers. Now, some of those kids have grown up to be designers, and there's a new...
View ArticleA Squeezable Light Bulb That Slurps Up Color
In the last couple of years, color detecting sensors have finally become cheap enough that we're starting to see a whole host of interesting gadgets that can incorporate Pantone swatches into their...
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Photo Essay: The Forgotten Houses Of Finland's Diaspora
Born in Finland and raised in Sweden, Martina Lindqvist never felt as if she belonged on either side of the Baltic sea. Her photography explores these feelings, using the barren, abandoned landscapes...
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Microsoft Research Invents A Stylus That Can Read Your Mind
"If you see a stylus, they blew it," Steve Jobs once famously said about tablets. Yet despite Jobs's best efforts, the stylus is not dead. Designers are obsessed with them. Apple's started embracing...
View ArticleThis App Turns You Into The Silver Surfer Of Subatomic Space
If you were able to shrink yourself to the size of a subatomic particle, the world would look very different. You'd find yourself floating in what appeared to be outer space, and objects which are...
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Check Out 50 More Behind-The-Scenes Photos From Star Wars
J.J. Abrams's Star Wars: Episode VII is due out next Christmas, and so far, all accounts suggest it will be a return to the practical effects that made Episode IV, V, and VI feel so much more tangible...
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MIT Invents Tech That Could 3-D Print Self-Lacing McFlys
Take a piece of raw bacon. Uncooked, a strip of bacon will lie flat, but drop it into a sizzling frying pan and it will start to curl. Bacon curls because the fat melts away and shrinks at a different...
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H.R. Giger's Original Design To-Do List For "Alien" Was Awesomely Weird
It's hard to imagine what the Alien movies would look like without the singular vision of Swiss artist H.R. Giger. But before Giger was hired on to design the film's monsters and worlds in the image of...
View ArticleWe've Been Doing Umbrellas Wrong
No one knows for sure when the first folding umbrella was designed. However old they are, we've been doing them wrong all these years, and these two designer umbrellas prove it.Now on Kickstarter, the...
View ArticleThink Standing Desks Are For Wimps? Check Out The Dynamic Chair
Throw your standing desk in the trash. Sitting, not standing, might be the best way for the 9-to-5 office drone to stay active, as long as they're willing to strap themselves into the Dynamic Chair--an...
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How Woody Allen Inspired Saturday Night Live's New Intro
Emily Oberman's connection with the SNL'verse runs deep. Before the graphic design and branding pro joined Pentagram, she designed the logo for Saturday Night Live's 25th and 35th anniversaries, as...
View ArticleNest CEO Tony Fadell On Why Jetsons-esque Connected Homes "Just Don't Work"
Kicking off Fast Company's Innovation By Design 2014 Conference, Fast Company Executive Editor Noah Robischon hosted an intimate chat with Nest CEO Tony Fadell. The designer behind the original iPod,...
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How Two Designers Visualize Amazon's Data Differently
Data visualization is just as much an art as it is a science, which is why there are many different ways that a single set of data can be visualized. At today's Innovation By Design 2014 conference,...
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