Fast Company

Fast Company is the world’s leading progressive business media brand, with a unique editorial focus on innovation in technology, leadership, world changing ideas, and design. Written for, by, and about the most progressive business leaders, Fast Company inspires readers to think beyond traditional boundaries, lead conversations, and create the future of business.

Design at a Crossroads

Why Did Corporate America Break Up With Design? • Every company wanted to be Apple. Then reality set in.

GREAT (AND TERRIBLE!) MOMENTS IN CORPORATE PRODUCT DESIGN • These items from the past few decades speak for themselves.

Billy on the Screen • Comedian Billy Eichner goes big with Bros.

MINOR ROLES, MAJOR IMPACT • Romantic comedies are never just about the leading couple (in this case, Billy Eichner and Luke Macfarlane). Eichner reveals how he cast Bros’ LGBTQ+ secondary characters.

Follow the (Thought) Leader • How tech moguls and billionaires show their personalities on Twitter

Seeing Around Corners • Gro Intelligence CEO Sara Menker uses data to predict the future—and help combat food insecurity.

A MOSAIC OF DATA • What do predictions about climate change and flooding have to do with the price of pork in China? A lot.

Moneyball • One year into the NCAA’s new NIL policies, which athletes are scoring deals?

Lighting Out • The satirist behind the finance meme account Litquidity has gone from skewering banking bros to growing a media company.

FUNNY FINANCE • Wall Street parodies have been around for almost a hundred years.

Disruptive innovation is the key to plastics sustainability • A SUSTAINABLE PLASTICS PRODUCTION CHAIN REQUIRES SHIFTING FROM A LINEAR TO A CIRCULAR ECONOMY

Animal Attraction • Stylish, useful products for pet and pet parent alike

My Daily Media Diet • Brett Heyman, founder, Edie Parker and Flower by Edie Parker

My Hiking Soundtrack • Sofia Chang, CEO, Girl Scouts of the USA

Fostering a company-wide web of innovation • FINTECH FIRM TRADEWEB KEEPS NEW IDEAS COMING BY LISTENING TO CLIENTS AND MENTORING EMPLOYEES

my operating system. • Landscape designer Thomas Woltz takes our career questionnaire.

FAVORITE PARKS

What to Download • Erik Torstensson, cofounder and creative director, Frame

SHOE GOD • SALE HEBEMBURY is the preeminent designer to emerge from sneaker culture. He’s putting his fingerprint on footwear and fashion-and getting his REI on.

THE MUSEUM OF MODERN BEMBURY • Nine highlights from Salehe Bembury’s favorite sneaker creations displayed in his Los Angeles studio

INNOVATION BY DESIGN

DESIGN FOR THE AGES

A WIDER LENS • Diversity in Design Collaborative/MillerKnoll

AN AIR – FRESHENING VACUUM • Airsign HEPA Vacuum

A PATIENT – FIRST APPROACH TO HEALTHCARE • Kaiser Permanente

A FASHION LINE THAT UPSCALES UPCYCLING • Ahluwalia: Circulate/A_DA

AN OFFICE TOWER WRAPPED IN A PARK • Hana Bank Headquarters/NBBJ

AN ACCESSIBLE BANK • Majority Expedited Banking for Migrants

Banking Challenges for Migrants

A LANGUAGE KEEPER • North American Syllabies/Typotheque

A MODULAR PHONE • Fairphone 4/Above Agency

AN ALGORITHMIC APPROACH TO ARCHITECTURE • iKure Health Hub/HDR

A PILL BOTTLE THAT CAN SPEAK • Spoken Rx/ American Council of the Blind, CVS, and Identiv

AN OS THAT RESPONDS TO GESTURES • Camera Switches/Google

A WEBSITE THAT INSPIRES TRUST • Breastcancer.org/Work & Co

A NEW WAY TO HARNESS WIND • Windcatcher/Wind Catching Systems

A KID-FRIENDLY MRI • Pediatric MRI Coaching/Philips Experience Design

A SHAPE-SHIFTING CHAIR...