Benjamin Hubert helped this cancer charity design a more effective, more humble charity box.
In Britain, Maggie’s is a nonprofit charity aimed at giving cancer patients support, information, and advice. It was named after Maggie Keswick Jencks, the wife of architectural critic Charles Jencks, and as such, it’s got a deep bench of designers who have worked with the charity, including Frank Gehry, Norman Foster, and Thomas Heatherwick.
Hyperlocal produce, right under your feet.
Deep below the streets of London, something is growing in tunnels that once kept people safe from World War II bombs. One hint: It’s leafy.
Beacon has been trying to fix the business of journalism for two years. Its most idealistic idea may also be its most promising.
Audrey Cooper, the editor in chief of the San Francisco Chronicle, has been thinking a lot about H-1B visas. The visa type allows companies to hire foreign workers in specialty occupations like engineering, and it is especially relevant to the tech-heavy business population of Silicon Valley. But Cooper’s job is to tell the story of Northern California, and sending reporters abroad to talk with would-be immigrants and their families doesn’t quite fall into the priority list. “I could take it out of my budget,” she says, “but it would mean we are not going to follow our sports teams to the Olympics next year, or not going to cover a wildfire.”
The horror maestro behind the very disturbing new film The Green Inferno talks about how intensity is what gets pulses pounding.
Something bad is going to happen. You know it’s coming—this is what you signed up for—you just don’t know how bad it’s going to be, or when it’s going to happen. Then it does happen, and it’s even more horrifying than you’d been bracing for . . . and it’s going to happen again and again.
We look at familiar logos like we look at faces. That’s depressing.
We perceive brands the same way we perceive other people’s faces. That’s the conclusion of a study by Anne Lange and Rainer Höger, which tested 18 well-known brand logos to see how trustworthy we find the companies behind them. The results were compared with a previous study doing the same thing for human faces, and the conclusion was startling.
It just might be, according to this clever series of tests, unless designers have a say.
The days of the majestic handwritten signature are pretty much done. The IRS encourages taxpayers to file their returns electronically, identifying themselves not with a pen but a special PIN. Credit card payments now involve a tap or a click as often as a hasty cursive scribble. It’s safe to say John Hancock wouldn’t have achieved epic status if he’d typed his name at the end of the Declaration of Independence—then hit send.
You know you shouldn’t sit all day. But standing all day can be a bit much. You need both.
As many people are starting to realize, sitting is the new smoking—it’ll kill you faster than a bowlful of trans fats. But standing still in front of your computer all day isn’t so great either. What you need is a combo sit-stand desk, preferably one that’s easy to adjust, and that doesn’t use a motor.
The move comes a month after cofounder Andy Dunn stepped back into his day-to-day CEO role.
Bonobos, the men’s fit-focused e-retailer now known for its growing physical presence of Guideshop stores, has been scaling fast.
The Federal Trade Commission is conducting an antitrust inquiry into Google’s Android practices, Bloomberg reports.
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has begun an antitrust inquiry into the way Google bundles apps on smartphones running its Android mobile operating system, Bloomberg reported on Friday. Google is currently facing similar scrutiny in the European Union.
Available in a range of sizes, the Trinity wind turbine can charge your phone while camping or provide electricity for your entire home.
When we think about energy efficiency on the go, solar-powered gadgets are typically the first to jump to mind. Solar-powered lamps, digital cameras and phone chargers are all planet-friendly and functional. But a wind turbine? A bit tougher to lug around.
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