Good Design Is Good Business

Legendary IBM CEO Thomas Watson Jr. said these words almost 40 years ago. In 2012, they're finally the guiding spirit of our innovation age.

Watch This Guy Draw Pinterest’s CEO, Using 22,765 Pushpins

Watch This Guy Draw Pinterest’s CEO, Using 22,765 Pushpins

Where others have used paint, Eric Daigh uses the humblest of office supplies. And he’s become world-renowned for it.

Why Good Design Is Finally A Bottom Line Investment

A mix of factors, ranging from commoditization to evaporating barriers to competition, are conspiring to push design to the fore of business thinking.

Can A Nightclub Designer Really Make Life Better For The Poor?

Can A Nightclub Designer Really Make Life Better For The Poor?

Can Marcelo Rosenbaum, a Brazilian designer who gained fame for creating glamorous nightclubs and shops use his skills--and his ideas--to attack his country’s huge poverty problem?

Windows 8: The Boldest, Biggest Redesign In Microsoft’s History — Photograph by Reinhard Hunger

Windows 8: The Boldest, Biggest Redesign In Microsoft’s History

Photograph by Reinhard Hunger

This fall, a billion PC users will wake up to a new desktop--Windows 8. Could it signal a design revolution at Microsoft?

Platon and George Lois, in New York on June 26, 2012

A Conversation About Courage, With George Lois and Platon

Written by: Co.Design Staff

The legendary ad man Lois and Platon, a giant of modern portraiture, sit down for a talk.

Stephanie Izard And Daniel Boulud On The Tricky Art Of Designing A Meal

Written by: Co.Design Staff

We eavesdrop on the Boulud, one of the most accomplished chefs in the world, and Izard, a Top Chef winner who’s opening… a diner?!

Jonathan Olivares, with his Olivares Aluminum Chair, and Charles Pollock, on a CP Lounge, in New York on July 10, 2012

Jonathan Olivares And Charles Pollock On Designing The Perfect Chair

Written by: Co.Design Staff

Charles Pollock, the force behind many of George Nelson’s classics, and Olivares, a design historian with a new chair out from Knoll, sit down.

Zaha Hadid and Rem D. Koolhaas On Designing A Shoe For The 21st Century — Photograph by Roxanne Lowit

Zaha Hadid and Rem D. Koolhaas On Designing A Shoe For The 21st Century

Written by: Co.Design Staff Photograph by Roxanne Lowit

Fast Company hosts a conversation between the legendary architecture diva and Koolhaas (the other Rem’s second cousin), who founded United Nude, a future-forward shoe-and-accessory company.

Can Ben Silbermann Turn Pinterest Into The World’s Greatest Shopfront?

Pinterest, the social media phenom, has created the web’s new design paradigm--and maybe the greatest selling engine ever devised. We sit down for a rare interview with Ben Silbermann, Pinterest’s CEO.

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