In Fast Company's 2011 design issue, we focused on American design: What it means, where it stands, and where it's going. And so naturally, we thought it necessary to create a list of the country ...

The IAEA has launched an infographic design contest for young professionals aged 18 to 35 to raise awareness about emergency preparedness and response in nuclear and radiological contexts.

Marketers looking to be on trend with their infographics this year may want to experiment with bright colors, animation, vintage vibes, personalization, gradients, linework, and data visualizations.

What’s interesting is how minimal, even abstract, many of these icons have become. Hyper-literal metaphor used to be the cardinal rule of icon design.In the 80s, the icon for the trash folder on ...

Companies like Herman-Miller, Nike, Starbucks and Apple have all made a great case as to why businesses should care about design. These and 10 other design-minded companies grew 299 percent ...

An infographic (below) from Creative Market explores some of these key building blocks. Specifically, it looks at 10 basic elements of design: lines, color, shape, space, texture, typography, scale, ...

How Better Design Can Get People to Try Your Brand (Infographic) In order to stand out, thinking about what your customers want and how they behave is going to be more important than ever ...

When infographics are used to communicate global issues, they give viewers a good overview of the issue because of the striking, engaging visuals that are used to communicate information quickly and ...

How do you capture the present state of design in one single chart, with only 50 names? You don’t. But, inspired by the effort of those 50, we gave it a shot in Fast Company’s 2011 design issue.

The Co.Design 50, as the chart is called, is colorful matrix. Its X axis indicates a range from "virtual" to "physical," and its Y axis ranges from "maker" to "thinker." ...