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Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in Design
Fast Company’s current list of the Top Ten companies in Design.
01 / Stamen Design
For clever ways of delivering both bountiful information and surprising beauty gleaned from data sets—and Twitter
02 / Local Projects
For showing how digital design can create powerful emotional experiences
03 / Hoefler & Frere-Jones
For creating brilliant typefaces used in everything from presidential campaigns to stock tables
04 / Berg
For tackling design challenges, from iPad apps to RFID tags, as if they were science experiments
05 / Fuseproject
For proving that great commercial design can be used to underwrite great philanthropic design
06 / ideo
For opening its own innovation processes to the world
07 / Ammunition
For cutting-edge consumer electronics that still have soul
08 / Pentagram
For graphic design that sets a new standard, for old-school books as well as newfangled animated logos
09 / Michael Van Valkenburgh
For transforming rotting docks and wastewater facilities into enchanting environments
10 / Studio Dror
For melding visual poetry and practical multitasking in products, interiors, and architecture
Best Creative Mags
From design to advertising to digital art, below is my continually evolving list of the best published mags for the creative & advertising industry:
Communication Arts (www.commarts.com)
I.D. (www.idonline.com)
Layers (http://www.layersmagazine.com/)
How (www.howdesign.com)
Wired (www.wired.com)
Beautiful/Decay (http://beautifuldecay.com/)
Before & After (http://www.bamagazine.com/)
Print (www.printmag.com/)
Create Magazine (www.createmagazine.com)
Graphis Design Journals (www.graphis.com/)
Ad Age / Creativity (http://creativity-online.com/)
CMYK (http://www.cmykmag.com/)
Adweek (www.adweek.com)
Metropolis (http://www.metropolismag.com/cda/)
Computer Arts (http://www.computerarts.co.uk/)
