The deadline to enter is May 5.
We’re pleased to announce that we’re now accepting entries for the 2016 Innovation By Design Awards.
This Designer Is Making Brand-Name Fashion Friendlier To Kids With Disabilities
Mindy Scheier saw firsthand how underserved kids with disabilities are when it comes to clothing. Now, she’s working to change that.
For many people, getting dressed offers a way to express who they are to the world: patterns, colors, silhouettes, and even technology.
Confessions Of A Female Game Designer
TrulySocial’s My Tran reflects on her role as a female game designer in a male-dominated field—and how to design games with women in mind.
We’re Pushing Nature’s Network Architecture To A Catastrophic Crash
Nature can compensate for failure. Until one too many things go wrong.
Scientists tell us that the world is ending, but when you look around, things don’t seem so bad! There may have been wildfires and droughts in California, sure, but Whole Foods still has my avocados, orange juice, and almonds. Maybe life, to paraphrase Jeff Goldblum, will just “find a way” no matter what we do to it.
You Have To Build A Fire To Power This Wi-Fi Router
Because you won’t survive the apocalypse without secret wilderness Wi-Fi.
From a distance, there’s nothing unusual about this 1.5-ton boulder sitting at the center of a forest clearing in Neuenkirchen, Germany. It’s only once you get closer that you notice part of the boulder has been hollowed out—and the opening sealed with a sheet of metal.
The Best Beige Sweater Bags From Amazon’s Secret Fashion Label
The e-commerce giant’s private fashion label is here and it’s…very beige. We combed through the offerings so you don’t have to.
Today we got a first glimpse at Amazon ‘s private fashion label rumored to be underway last week. The e-commerce behemoth quietly rolled out seven separate brands for both men and women. Despite boutique-sounding names—Lark & Ro, Scout + Ro, James & Erin, Franklin & Freeman—the styles are a bit…underwhelming. Beige bags abound. Polyester percentages are high. There are only so many sweater ponchos (turtle-necked or not) one woman can own.
These Mindfulness Pods Dare You To Meditate In Public
Encouraging meditation through design is about more than just lounge chairs—it’s about ergonomics.
How do you design a public space for a private activity? That was the problem posed to the architects at Oyler Wu Collaborative recently by Headspace, a five-year-old startup dedicated to creating a platform for mindfulness principles.
The UX Tweaks That Make BuzzFeed’s Video App So Immersive
BuzzFeed Video is built to handle every video format seamlessly.
Shortly after being hired here at Fast Company, our head of video showed the entire staff this helpful YouTube clip from 2012 about why it’s important to always shoot iPhone video in landscape mode.
The Glittering Beauty Of Winter’s Snowscapes, Captured By Drone
Lithuanian photographer Karolis Janulis offers a fascinating glimpse of ordinary life from above.
“Taking pictures from a hot air balloon is easier than a drone,” says Lithuanian photographer Karolis Janulis, reminiscing about one of his past forays in aerial photography. “You are standing still, you can make a nice composition—but an air balloon is being controlled by the wind, you can’t control the direction so you have to shoot whatever is directly below you.”
Can A 16-Mile Stretch Of Road Become The World’s First Sustainable Highway?
“The Ray” is an ambitious project to convert a Georgia highway into a road that isn’t horrible for the environment.
There are 223,000 miles of heavily trafficked roads in the United States. They slice through landscapes, connecting communities and economies, but also bisecting and contaminating nature. Transportation accounts for more than 25% of total U.S. emissions, and busy roads can produce up to five times the levels of pollutants (copper, zinc, chloride, nitrogen, and phosphorus) than rural roads. In short, roads are energy-intensive, dirty structures—but we can’t live without them.
