Site Map>2014>May 12th 2014 - May 18th 2014

Hear What James Franco, Hans Zimmer, Tracey Emin, Moby, And Others Have To Say About CreativityThe Recommender: Celine Grouard, Possibly Named After A BargeDrink Marketers’ Great Challenge: Competing Against Water, Without Badmouthing It“Watch Dogs” Stunt Turns Members Of The Public Into Inadvertent HackersGM Fined $35 Million For Its Deadly Ignition Switch ProblemGoogle Hires Fashion Expert Ivy Ross To Head GlassThe Meat Atlas: Everything You Never Wanted to Know About Where Your Food Comes FromThe “Obesity World Cup” Ranks The Fattest People Off The Soccer FieldMeet The Disarmingly Adorable Robot That Will One Day Chase Us Down For Our Machine OverlordsWhat We’re Really Saying When We Talk About Jill Abramson’s FiringRussian Space Rocket Carrying $72 Million Satellite ExplodesInside The Oculus Business EcosystemThe Top 5 Leadership Stories, May 12-16Wild! Tableware Made From Animal Bones, Fur, And SkinChipotle Wants You To Enjoy Jonathan Safran Foer, Toni Morrison, Michael Lewis And More With Your BurritoThe Uber CEO’s Secret To A $10 Billion Company: Good TimingTake A Look Inside North Korea Through Google GlassThis Startup Wants To Make Your Commute Shorter, Through Prizes And DataAdvertising’s Next Frontier: The MoonA Giant Poem Praises Clean Air–And Cleans Air, TooA Live, Crowdsourced Map Of New York Bike Safety IssuesThis Online Class Helps Designers Solve Real-World ProblemsGodzilla Takes On Walter White In This Nutso Animated ShortWhy Collecting Data In Conflict Zones Is Invaluable–And Nearly ImpossibleScience Wars: U.S. And Russia Spar Over Space Stations And GPSThese Insane Targets Are Actual Things That People Shoot Guns At For PracticeRichard Branson On Marijuana Legalization And Why Virgin Will Never Build PrisonsThe 15 Most Popular Cities For Riding Your Bike To WorkIBM’s Watson Is Ready To See You Now–In Your Dermatologist’s OfficeBeautiful Images Of Airports From AboveHow To Make A Warning Label For Humans 10,000 Years From NowA Guide To All Of NYC’s Subway SignsFancy Hat Shields You From Bright Lights, Big City JerksPebble 2: A Music Player That Also Juices Up Your GadgetDesign Studio And Textiles Duo Reboot U-Frame ChairSign Of The Times: Clothes Built For Surfing The WebHow Mute Erodes What’s Great About TwitterMeet Two Women Crazy Enough To Launch A Print MagazineThe Soothsayer: How Paddy Chayefsky’s “Network” Accidentally Predicted The Mad (As Hell) Future Of Cable News7 Tips For Designing On A BudgetThe “Mad Men” Computer, Explained By Harvard Business Review In 1969The Final Pieces Of The 9/11 Memorial Museum: Visitors, Their Stories, And Rooms That ListenThree Gorgeous Food Blogs That Will Change The Way You Look At Your PlateHow Beats By Dre’s Designer Made An Office To Encourage His Team’s Best WorkWhy Job Prospects For Millennials Are Still DreadfulThe Most Creative People In Food, 2014Why Daydreaming And Downtime Can Be Secrets To Innovation3 Things Men Need to Stop Saying To Women Entrepreneurs5 Ways To Make The Annual Review Process Less Painful5 Free Apps For Better Job HuntingEmbracing A Positive Business Model Is Good For More Than Just Your CommunityHow To Lose $35 Million And Remain A SuccessAdapt Or Die: Your Business’s Only Options In An Evolving Economy6 Essential Tips for Every StartupBerlin Takes A Hundred-Year-Long Photograph With The Century Camera ProjectFrom 220-Pound Rubber Suit To 800 Digital Artists: “Godzilla” Then And NowSynthetic Shark Skin Swimsuits Make Swimming FasterThe 9 Best Languages For Crunching DataThe U.S. Military’s Zombie Apocalypse Survival Training Guide Is A Real ThingIMF Restructuring RecommendationsThe FCC Moves Forward With A Proposal That Could Throttle An Open InternetNew Super-Strong, Self-Healing, Infinitely Recyclable Polymers Will Change How We Make ThingsWhat You’ll Look Like At 100Beautiful Beer Foamer Elevates Craft Beer To Craft CocktailCreate Your Own “Bike Airbnb” With This New Networked LockInternal Report Reveals New York Times’ Digital FailingsLiterary Giants Seek New Readers Via Chipotle CupsEat Cake While Staring At The Apocalypse, With Disaster-Themed ChinaLSTN: Like Warby Parker For Fancy HeadphonesGive Your Green Thumb A Boost With This Countertop, Smartphone-Controlled GreenhouseIn Leaked Documents, The NSA’s Love Affair With Clipart RevealedHere’s Your Future: Striking Photos Provide A Close-Up Look At 100-Year-Old ModelsHow Mobile Apps For Farmers Could Help Fight Rising Coffee PricesCarpets For Space GeeksChipotle’s New Packaging Might Be The Most Interesting Thing You Read TodayThis Giant Tower In The Desert Could Generate As Much Power As The Hoover DamA Simple Yet Brilliant $1.50 Sanitation IdeaNescafé Makes Waking Up To Instant Coffee Tolerable (Sorta)These Apocalyptic Landscapes Are Super Grossly Made From Mold, Ashes, and BloodGet Ready For The Return Of The Ridiculously Addictive Flappy BirdHow You’ll Look Inside The Facebook MetaverseThe First 3-D Printed Metal Furniture Is HereCould “Second Livestock” Give Chickens A Virtual Free Range?This San Francisco Artist Is Messing With Wireless Networks At Tech Company Bus StopsBeyond The Cut: Exploring The Future of Movies With Neuroscience, Virtual Reality, And ArchitectureThese Hypnotic Looped Portraits Turn Real Into SurrealAnimated Map Visualizes NYC’s Raging WorkaholismScientific Typeface Illustrates 26 Great InventionsHow The Rest Of The World Saw 9/118 Tips From Apple’s Official Guide To App Design3 Lessons In Career Development From Comedy Greats Who FloppedHubSpot Reveals The Mind Tricks It Uses To See If You’re Right For A JobThe Most Creative People In Social Good, 20145 Secrets To Engaging Aspirational ConsumersDesigner Of Beats By Dre On Asking Tough QuestionsVampire Diaries’s Ian Somerhalder Shares His Productivity MantraWhen Founding A Company With No Experience Isn’t A Huge MistakeThe Case For And Against Stressful DeadlinesHow Polaroid Saved Itself From Certain DeathYour Happy Employees Are Still Job Hunting (Infographic)Ignore The Impostors: This Is What Stellar Leadership Really Looks Like6 Things Managers Could Stand To Learn From Coaches7 Customer Acquisition Apps To Add To Your ArsenalSpike And Die: Why Products Created By Ad Agencies FailT. Boone Pickens Generates Billions in Value Creation through EnergyNet Neutrality Bus Shelter Ads Tell The FCC That The Internet Is WatchingWill Facebook’s New Card Tricks Magically Keep Users Entertained?Baskets, Hula Hoops, And Sharks: The Things You Find On A Vietnamese MotorbikeGraphic Design Meets Walt Whitman’s “Song Of Myself”Calamityware Commemorates The Time Flying Monkeys Attacked The Village On Fine ChinaInside Facebook’s New Grown-Up HackathonsShutterstock: The U.S. Still Doesn’t Give A Crap About SoccerHere’s How One iOS App Proves Microinteractions Are EverythingWant To Be More Creative? Sleep Like The Ancients DidAll Him: Start From The Top And Scroll Through The Life Of Drake With This Brand New Interactive SiteWhy Do Big Companies Do Hackathons?The Oatmeal’s $8 Million Moonshot: Ask Elon Musk, Via Cartoon, To Fund A Nikola Tesla MuseumThe Haunting Artifacts Inside The National September 11 Memorial MuseumLive Nation’s Russell Wallach on Selling OutGus Van Sant Directs Dramatic Spots For The Impossibly Sexy BMW i8A Sense Of Purpose May Help You Stave Off DeathWhy You’re Afraid Of The World To Your LeftEverything You Need To Know About Facebook’s New App AcceleratorTake A Look At The First Keyboard For Google Glass In This Twee-Tastic VideoUsing An Entire Country To Crowdsource Dangerous Traffic HotspotsThese Curbside Mini-Gardens Could Help Save New York City Billions of DollarsThe Cigarette Litter Menace: Is It Time To Ban Cigarette Butts?An App For Selling Access To A Street Parking Space You Do Not Own“Penny Dreadful” Comes To Life In Spooky Interactive Street DisplayMark Zuckerberg Is Officially An Old Loser, According To Mark ZuckerbergGeorge R.R. Martin’s Secret To Productive Writing: A DOS ComputerA Site That Tracks Your Carbon Footprint And Rewards You For Beating Your NeighborsPenn State Is Racing To Put A College-Kid-Designed Spacecraft On The MoonWomen Are More Lonely On Twitter, But Men Get More SympathyFalling In Love, VisualizedAn Espresso Maker As Beautiful As The SunriseWhite Picket Fences In The Sky? Suburbia’s Vertical FutureThe Unwavering Racism Of Native American Sports LogosHow To Find Skilled Workers In The Gig EconomyA Radical Strategy For A Hotter, Scarcer World: Tell Customers To Use Less Of Your ProductThese Incredible Photos Show That It’s Possible To Carry Almost Anything On A BikeNew Museum Uses Algorithms To Visualize How 9/11 Still Shapes The WorldFab Founder On 5 Ways To Navigate Design PoliticsThe 10 Smartest Cities In The WorldThe New Playlist For More Productive Work: Video Game SoundtracksThe Most Creative People In Arts And Entertainment, 2014How To Negotiate Even If You Really, Really Hate ItHow To Spice Up Your PR When Your Business Isn’t Sexy5 Ways You Can Put All Your Numbers And Research To Good UseInside The Minds And Motivations Of The Most Connected PeopleIs A Truly Flexible Workplace Possible?5 Emotional Intelligence Tips We Can Learn From One Of America’s Wisest LeadersDilbert Creator Scott Adams On Why Big Goals Are For LosersGilt.com’s CEO Advice To Her Younger SelfChristy Turlington Shares Why She Became A Social EntrepreneurHow to Get Ahead At Your Creative Job–From A Guy Who Went From “Daily Show” Intern to Head WriterSamsung Puts Soccer Superstars Through Galaxy TrainingGoogle Tested The Safety Of Its Self-Driving Cars By Swarming Them With BikesThe Next Startup Frontier: Credit Card FraudHow H.R. Giger, The Weirdo Designer Behind “Alien,” Became A Household NameThe Fragrance Lab Turns Your Personality Into PerfumeThe Least Creative Thing Of The Day: This Ad Uses Malala Yousafzai To Sell MattressesMeet Fumo, The Silliest Possible Way To Fix Cigarette Littering“You Are What You Share” And As This Video Notes, It’s Really EmbarrassingWhy Google Is Being Forced To Delete Certain Search ResultsWhat’s Up With Apple’s iBeacon A Year After Introduction?An Illustrated History Of The CameraJust A Man And His Cape: Superheroes Get Some Alone Time With Nature6 Starchitects Wearing Their Most Famous Buildings As HatsJames Stewart Polshek: “Very Few People Understand Architectural Practice In This Day And Age”R.I.P “Alien” Designer And Surrealist Artist H.R. GigerSegway Inventor Creates Revolutionary Mind-Controlled Prosthetic ArmThis Creepy Gchat Clone Lets You Take Secret Webcam Photos Of Your Chatting PartnerAntibacterial Fabrics Kill Dangerous Germs In A Matter Of MinutesSee Decades of Rap Drug References, VisualizedYour Facebook Status Updates Can Show If You’re DepressedCounter-Terrorism Software Could Prevent College Students From Dropping OutIkea Helps Find Families For Homeless DogsSee What Your City Will Look Like Under Six Feet of WaterThese Skateboards Are Made Out Of The Plastic Clogging Our OceansThe 100 Top Users Of Renewable EnergyHilarious Graphs Prove That Correlation Isn’t CausationHow The NSA Spies: A New TheoryStylect, The Tinder For Shoes, Finds You A Perfect PairMove Over Seamless? Square Releases Tasty Take-Away Food AppArt Of The Book: Printed Pages Recast As SculptureThese Clothes Block Your Cell Phone So You’ll Pay Attention To Your Friends“Drones Watching”: What Signs Will Look Like In The Not-So-Distant Future13 Of The World’s Coolest TreehousesThis Folding Electric Bike Tries To Include Any Feature Bike Commuters Might WantThis Tiny Device Fits On Your Keychain And Measures The Calories In Your DinnerA Design History Of The Life-Saving Triage TagThe Most Creative People In Tech, 2014How Facebook Is Making Us MiserableHow Scholastic Kept Its Relevance In A Digital WorldHow A Team With Diverse Skill Sets Makes Google X More ProductiveYour Brain Is Hardwired To Make You One Type Of Leader–Can You Overcome It?Twitter 101: How To Get More Clicks, Retweets, And ReachModCloth Founder’s Five Lessons To Her Younger SelfHow Skullcandy Is Turning Things Around Its Own WayWhat True Ambition Really Looks Like6 Things You Don’t Realize You Should Negotiate At WorkReal Talk: How The World’s Foremost Mashup Maestro, Girl Talk, Changed His TuneHow To Create A Potent Preview, From “Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes'” Trailer EditorCoca-Cola Used Vending Machines To Get Rival Milan Soccer Fans To ShareThis Search Engine For The Internet Of Things Promises To Make Data More Meaningful To PeopleHow Do You Solve A Problem Like Joe Mande? Advice For A Social Media ConundrumThis Instagram Account Is Documenting India’s Election In The Most Beautiful Way PossiblePinterest Is Now Testing Promoted Pins With Paid Advertisers like Old NavyTwitter Debuts A “Mute” Button For When You’re Too Afraid to Unfollow SomeoneIkea Promotes Animal Adoption By Advertising Homeless Dogs In Its ShowroomsThe Trailer For NBC’s “Constantine” Looks Like A Very Faithful Adaptation Of The Much-Beloved Comics SeriesPeak Selfie Achieved In Miami As New Guiness Record Is SetThis Tower Looks Like A High Heel“Spurious Correlations” Shows the Ridiculous and Irrelevent Relationships Between EverythingWard Off Subway Gropers With This Expanding DressThis Is What Happens When You Combine A Parrot Quadcopter With Oculus RiftHow To Design Signs For The Gender-Neutral Toilet Of The FutureThis Quantified Skateboarding Gadget Maps Your Moves In 3-DWatch Common Commercials Get Instantly Amazing With Some Creative EditingAn App To Diagnose Bipolar Mood Swings By How People Talk On The PhoneA Standing/Sitting Desk You Can AffordWatch 200 Whales Swim Around Hawaii Without Getting On A Boat3-D Printed Food That Melts In Your Mouth6 Lessons In Filmmaking From “The Double” Director Richard AyoadeWhy Mercedes Is Planning For A Future Of Suburbs, Not CitiesMyWebRoom Creates Virtual Spaces To Organize–And Shop In–Your Online WorldSquare Order Lets You Skip The Coffee Line By Ordering AheadAir Pollution Is Lowering The IQs–And Earning Potential–Of New York City ChildrenWhen In Doubt, Build It Yourself (And Open Source The Code)The Growing Fossil Fuel Divestment Movement Has Its Biggest Success At StanfordThis Bike Light Projects An Image Of A Bike, So Cars Know What’s ComingNescafe Turns Its Coffee Cap Into An Alarm ClockMesmerizing GIF Movie Posters Bring Life To Iconic ImagesWhat San Francisco Would Look Like If It Were As Dense As ManhattanWhat Happens When You Let Employees Vote On An Open Office?3 Of Ray Eames’s Unsung Influences On Modern DesignA Brash Concept For A Gesture-Controlled iPhoneThe Artwork Of Legendary Sci-Fi Magazine OmniInspirational Posters That Don’t Totally SuckOne Of The Best Experiments In Urban Design? This Las Vegas Shopping MallA Tool For Building Beautiful Data VisualizationsWhy You Love Cute ThingsThe States Where People Are The Most (And Least) Generous With Time And MoneyThe Most Creative People In Business 2014Goooal?Keeping up with the Most CreativeKing BachRoger Norris GordonTaylor SteeleJulia GreerAmanda PeytonIolanthe ChronisRebecca GoldmanKate OrffJoy HowardSangeeta BhatiaGeneviève DionJosé María Álvarez-PalleteTrent ReznorSiddhartha LalAriane DaguinDame Margaret BarbourJenji KohanRob KingIda SkivenesClaudia PerlichLe-Marie ThompsonMichele ClaptonTim and Karrie LeagueBoris SofmanAlan SchaafBob RichardsHugh EvansIzzie LererFred GelliJami CurlD’Wayne EdwardsMichael ComishMonica RogatiKelly SchoeffelKathryn HuntGrace HelbigAdam FleischmanStacy O’ConnorAnya FernaldCarl HartJehane NoujaimAndy DunnCatherine HokeNaveen TewariMichael Phillips MoskowitzMeredith PerryGerry GrafMa YansongMolly GuyTy Ahmad-TaylorLi NaDeena VarshavskayaDeborah LloydApril BloomfieldEmil MichaelVikram VoraChase AdamAnmol MadanLinda AveyJoel DudleyThor FridrikssonDan HardenCharmian GoochCamille GibsonFleury RoseJen McCabeGorden WagenerJennifer LeeAdam Schokora, Jimi Zhang, Leon Yan, and Taylor ShenRuth Gaviria and Linda OngScott HoweMax VentillaAnthony PerezNaval RavikantJerry SeinfeldHelp, I’ve been Growth-hacked!The Class of 2014Couture ChemistrySleep LightThe RecommenderThe Ugly Truth About Silicon Valley’s Diversity ProblemInfrastructure, Lost and FoundMariam NaficyMike WiLL Made ItTim KendallAnna Maria ChávezJames CarnesBilly ParishPalmer LuckeySarika Doshi, Pooja Badlani, and Sonal GuptaJorge OdónAmanda MusilliScott GoodsonSophia LindholmJamie MillerSean Rad and Justin MateenTheaster GatesMichael HeywardSallie KrawcheckAnna KendrickAnthony FoxxDesign team, DropboxRaj TalluriMario QueirozJill WilfertGur Kimchi and Daniel BuchmuellerPrincess Reema Bint Bandar Al-SaudWhy Amazon And Coca-Cola Have The Best Corporate ReputationsBeyond Traditional And Emotional Intelligence: The Secret Weapon Of Great InnovatorsHow Birchbox Used A Threat To Their Business As MotivationForget TGIF–Here Are Proven Ways To Be Glad It’s MondayThe Other Gender Income Gap–What Happens When Women (Finally) Earn MoreThe Freakonomics Authors’ New Approach To Creative, Productive ThinkingEtsy’s CEO On Bringing Out The Human Element In CommerceWhat Your Name Means To Your Chances Of Landing A JobDaydreaming–You Are Doing It Wrong. How To Make Your Fantasies More ProductiveBehind The Brand: Why Caterpillar Went From Conservative To Buzz-Building Content Marketing