“At the end of the day, I still want people to look at this car and think, I want to get in and drive it!”
How Code+Theory Is Redesigning The “Huffington Post” To Withstand The Next Decade
The goal is to be not so much future-proof, as future-compatible.
Yesterday, Huffington Post CEO Jared Grusd announced at Advertising Week that the Post, the 10-year-old news aggregator and publishing empire founded by Arianna Huffington in 2005, was working with Code and Theory on a massive network redesign. But while site redesigns generally revolve around page layouts, new logos, font choices, and color schemes, the Huffington Post is taking a broader view. More than just a redesign, it’s a reconception of a blogging behemoth that racks up over 240 million page views every month.
The Average American Worker Earns Less Today Than 40 Years Ago
It’s not just unemployment that matters. Many full-time workers take home less money, after inflation, than in decades.
Because most everything we buy gets more expensive over time, we have to earn more money each year just to maintain our existing standard of living. When we’re not given raises that keep up with this rate of inflation, we’re effectively suffering a pay cut.
From Cory Arcangel To “Pac-Man”: How Digital Art Curators Save Vintage Data And Hardware
Inside the struggle museum and gallery conservators face while fighting bit rot and broken parts.
As a teenager in the early 2000s, London artist Alexander Taylor and his friends shot videos on their Motorola Razr-era cellphones. They swapped the movies they made with one another in the already largely forgotten .3gp file format.
From Work Friendships To Following Up: This Week’s Top Leadership Stories
This week’s top leadership stories may help you cherish your friendships, follow up more tactfully, and boost your intelligence.
This week, we learned why having friends at work makes such a big difference, the right way to follow up, and how to boost your own intelligence.
Don’t Serve Human Flesh: 10 Lessons From “Bob’s Burgers” On How Not To Run A Business
TV’s greatest, most dysfunctional family, the Belchers, returns this weekend. That’s excellent news for viewers—and would-be entrepreneurs.
Here at Fast Company, we pride ourselves on being a beacon of advice for entrepreneurs looking to inject innovation and creativity into their business. However, there are some small-business owners who are dismally beyond help—Belcher family, we’re looking at you.
The Ultimate Portable Woodburning Stove
Use the Frontier Plus in tents, sheds, tipis, and tiny houses—and pack it up when you’re done.
Anevay, a camping product company based in England, started with a humanitarian mission: its woodburning stove was initially deployed to disaster zones. After word got out about how well the product performed, Anevay put the Frontier Stove on the consumer market. Now it’s re-engineered the design and launched a Kickstarter to get the Frontier Plus on the assembly line.
Hitachi Says It Can Predict Crimes Before They Happen
Not quite Minority Report, but monitoring everything from weather to Twitter may be able to predict where and when crime will occur.
“No doubt the precogs have already seen this,” says Chief John Anderton (played by Tom Cruise), head of Washington, DC’s experimental “Precrime” crime-prediction department in Minority Report, the 2002 Steven Spielberg movie based on Philip K. Dick’s 1956 short story (which is also now a new Fox TV series).
Tristan Walker’s Walker & Company Raises $24 Million, Scores Target Distribution Deal
Investors in the Series B funding round include Institutional Venture Partners, John Legend, Google Ventures, and Magic Johnson.
Walker & Company Brands, the health and beauty startup founded by entrepreneur Tristan Walker, announced today a $24 million Series B funding round and a deal to distribute its Bevel shaving system in select Target stores, as well as through the retailer’s website.
Meet The Most Powerful Force In The Star Wars Universe: The Man Who Makes The Toys
We spoke to Hasbro’s Star Wars design director to discover how the most anticipated toy line of all time is created.
When I was a kid growing up, Christmas day meant one thing: more Star Wars toys. I couldn’t get enough of those beloved 3 and 3/4-inch Kenner action figures. Luke Skywalker in Jedi Knight Outfit, Han Solo in Hoth Gear, and my favorite, the yellow and green alien Amanaman, just because he looked so weird. And I wasn’t alone in my love. Matter of fact, the first line of Star Wars action figures produced by Kenner (since acquired by Hasbro) between 1978 and 1985 sold 300 million units and brought in £3.8 billion in revenue. That’s astounding considering the six films to date have brought in only a little more–just over $4 billion at the box office. And when Hasbro relaunched the Star Wars action figure line again in 1995, sales of its figures took in an additional $5.5 billion over the next 16 years.
