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April 26 2012
Kate Aronowitz, Facebook’s Design Director, On Crafting A Design-Led Organization

Kate Aronowitz, Facebook’s Design Director, On Crafting A Design-Led Organization

In less than a decade, Aronowitz has hopped between some of the Valley’s most admired startups: eBay, LinkedIn, and Facebook. And she’s learned how to relate design’s importance within a big organization.

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  • 30 Notes
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Smart Blankie Senses Your Snuggles And Shares Them On The Internet

Making It

Smart Blankie Senses Your Snuggles And Shares Them On The Internet

The world’s most snuggled object can now feel your touch.

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  • 57 Tweets
  • 59 Likes
A Brilliantly Simple Desk Lamp That Adjusts, Without Moving Parts

Simple Genius

A Brilliantly Simple Desk Lamp That Adjusts, Without Moving Parts

Thinkk Studio broke a lamp down to three parts--without sacrificing flexibility and function.

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  • 82 Tweets
  • 10 Likes

Infographic of the Day

What Pi Looks Like To 4 Million Decimal Places, As Pixel Art

What Pi Looks Like To 4 Million Decimal Places, As Pixel Art

New York designers TWO-N honor record-breaking calculations of Pi by representing a small subset of the number’s decimal digits as pixels. (Yes, 4 million is a small subset.)

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  • 464 Tweets
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Look, It’s Jay-Z Sporting The New Brooklyn Nets Logo!

Look, It’s Jay-Z Sporting The New Brooklyn Nets Logo!

Go forth and produce your unlicensed novelty fan gear!

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  • 307 Tweets
  • 97 Likes

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Making It

Magic Carpet Changes Colors With The Seasons

Magic Carpet Changes Colors With The Seasons

Siren Elise Wilhelmsen’s “Season Carpet” is like a Hypercolor T-shirt for your floor.

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  • 59 Tweets
  • 17 Likes

Making It

A Record Player With No Records, And Lasers Instead Of A Needle

A Record Player With No Records, And Lasers Instead Of A Needle

If only Thomas Edison had been more interested in lasers!

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  • 119 Tweets
  • 310 Likes
4 Tips For Turning A Great Idea Into A Full-Blown Movement

4 Tips For Turning A Great Idea Into A Full-Blown Movement

Written by: Paul Eagle

Last year, TED broke with tradition and awarded its annual prize to an idea, rather than a person: City 2.0, a vast project that challenges people to reinvent their cities. Here’s a strategy for keeping the momentum going.

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How Do You Fix The iPad Speaker? With A Mickey Mouse Ear

Making It

How Do You Fix The iPad Speaker? With A Mickey Mouse Ear

We always knew that whole Apple/Pixar/Disney connection was good for something.

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  • 283 Tweets
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What Both MBAs And MFAs Get Wrong About Solving Business Problems

What Both MBAs And MFAs Get Wrong About Solving Business Problems

Written by: Melissa Quinn

Numbers and bullet points aren’t the only things driving executive decision making. And pretty pictures won’t get you there either. Both designers and MBAs have a lot to learn.

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Deputy Editor : Belinda Lanks
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    The Amazing Judges For Our 2013 Innovation By Design Awards

From the Editor

Thanks for stopping by Fast Company’s Co.Design. If you’ve been a reader for some time, you’ll notice that we’ve just unveiled a brand-new redesign. You can read about the thought process behind it here. Our content, of course, will be the same: Our focus is on highlighting the world’s best examples of design and innovation, working in concert.

We started this site with a few simple premises in mind. First, design is a window onto the world at large, and the culture we live in.

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