Fast Company recently released Innovation by Design: Creative Ideas That Transform the Way We Live and Work, a book highlighting the people and companies at the forefront of impactful design. In this episode, Fast Company design editor Suzanne LaBarre shares her top stories from the book and how the events of last year gave this project a sense of urgency.
Sep 8
The Farm Childhood That Built a Creative Empire
Australian-born creative director, gardener, and entrepreneur Richard Christiansen takes us from his childhood on a rural Australian farm to the front lines of advertising, magazine publishing, and creative agency life in New York before revealing how burnout and the upheaval of ... Show More
42m 29s
Aug 11
Inside the Curious World of Lucy Darling
Carisa Hendrix never set out to be in show business, and yet she's created one of the most unique entertainment personas working today. Lucy Darling is a character Hendrix created who's part magician, part comedian, and wholly original. Lucy's quick-witted crowd work regularly go ... Show More
52m 6s
Jan 2024
How Design Thinking Drives Innovation
Design-led companies such as Apple, Starbucks, and Airbnb outperform the S&P 500 index by 219%. The question is why? Today’s guest Paul Stonick -- VP of SCADpro, the Savannah College of Art and Design’s in-house design studio -- says he has the answer. Paul says this human-center ... Show More
33m 27s
Aug 2024
156. Creative Communication: How Our Design Choices Illustrate Our Values
<p>As a designer, <a href="https://www.fastersmarter.io/guests/scott-doorley/">Scott Doorley</a> is interested in how humans create the world around them. It’s a conversation, he says, that starts with the question: What kind of world do we want?</p><p>Doorley is the creative dir ... Show More
24m 42s
Jul 2024
How to Move Fast and Fix Things (from Design Matters with Anne Morriss and Frances Frei)
This is an episode of Design Matters featuring Fixable hosts Anne Morriss and Frances Frei. You'll receive a deep dive into the lives of them both, learning how they became the influential leaders they are today, as well as their process writing their new book, Move Fast and Fix ... Show More
1h 15m
Jun 2022
Episode 241: Life & Death Design with Katie Swindler
How can we design effectively for stressful situations, like life and death ones? Our guest today is Katie Swindler, design strategist at Allstate. You’ll learn the role of human intuition in high-stress situations, how to use visuals and sounds in life and death design, what sit ... Show More
41m 36s
Jun 2022
61. Courage, Ambiguity, Belonging and Data: How to Design Your Communication for Success
<p>All communication comes from a place of creativity and creativity is rooted in design. In this episode of <a href="https://www.fastersmarter.io/"><em>Think Fast, Talk Smart</em></a>, strategic communications lecturer and podcast host Matt Abrahams interviews four authors from ... Show More
34m 4s