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This Pointer Answers The Age-Old Question, “Where The Hell Are My Keys?”
2013-06-03

This big, colorful arrow might help well-intentioned scatterbrains keep things in order. You’re late again (no judgment). (...)

Buy Yourself A Close Shave To Help Give Others An Edge
2013-05-29

Harry’s is applying the buy-one-give-one model to razors, and is using its shaving apparel business to better the community, (...)

Recreating The Neighborhood Newsstand, With Some Help From Internet Culture
2013-05-29

Petrella’s Imports is a downtown New York newsstand where passersby can purchase zines and art, not just the usual snacks (...)

Interactive Site Takes You Inside The Awful Reality Of A Puppy Mill
2013-05-29

Singapore-based animal welfare groups teamed up with digital agency Yolk to create an interactive website that reveals some of (...)

Google’s Dead-Simple Tool For Making UX Decisions: 2 Jars Of Marbles
2013-05-29

When the Android team wants to decide whether a design decision is good or bad, they turn to the least techie of tricks. Nothing (...)

Amazing Photographs Of A Giant, Forgotten Collection Of Human Brains
2013-05-29

This brain collection from the University of Texas, which effectively disappeared for decades, has been rediscovered and is going (...)

Kill Your Darlings And 4 More Rules For Doing Creative Work
2013-05-29

In Forty-one False Starts: Essays on Artists and Writers, author Janet Malcolm reveals creative insights from artists ranging from (...)

Designers: Learn To Code! Here’s How To Start
2013-05-29

When you start experimenting with code, you find that the new tool helps you do your job better. Just think of it like getting (...)

Kickstarting: A Documentary On Cicadas That Will Either Make You Shudder Or Cry
2013-05-29

Samuel Orr has been trying to get his documentary on cicadas off the ground since 2007. That’s still 11 years less than it (...)

Loneliness Is Bad For Public Health, And It’s Up To Us To Fix It
2013-05-29

Being alone can be good in small doses, but it’s reaching epidemic proportions, with disastrous results for our collective (...)

The Perfect Facebook Contest App [Infographic]
2013-04-26

As you know, Facebook contest have become a huge part of social media in the last year or so, specially as a vehicle for brands trying (...)

How To Create A Disney-Like Addiction To Your Company
2013-05-29

Step one: Make eye contact and smile. That and six other seemingly simple steps can help create customer-service magic. I have (...)

Most Creative People, Live At C2-MTL
2013-05-29

Fast Company officially celebrated our 100 Most Creative People in Business last week at the jam-packed, high-energy C2-MTL conference (...)

Artists Turn A Craft Fair Into A Laboratory For New Materials
2013-05-24

At this year’s COLLECT: The International Art Fair for Contemporary Objects, in London, few things are what they seem. (...)

Watch this homemade ‘lightsaber’ quickly burn through everything put in front of it
2013-05-27

Today is a holiday in the US. Since tech news is next to nonexistent, we’re all watching cool videos on the Internet. In other (...)

Almost half of Facebook’s advertising revenue now stems from mobile
2013-10-30

Facebook revealed in its third quarter earnings report today that mobile ad revenue represented 49 percent of its $1.8 billion in (...)

Facebook’s European HQ wouldn’t be in Dublin if it wasn’t for U2 frontman Bono
2013-10-30

One thing that comes up frequently whenever you talk to people in Ireland is the level of influence that U2 frontman Bono has. Indeed, (...)

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