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December 29, 2014
2014: Fast Company's Year In Photo Essays
Look no further for our photo essay picks.
Over the past year, both online and in print, Fast Company has run photo essays on topics as diverse as Anna Kendrick and an Instagram-famous dog. Scroll down for editors' picks on 2014's most memorable photo-driven stories.
Creators Of The Year: 18 People Who Made The World More Creative in 2014
Creators we loved—from movies, TV, advertising, and beyond.
It's hard out there for a creator. Someone looking to conceive, execute and distribute something original faces countless hurdles. First, well, you have to think of an idea. In our age of endless distractions, it's a huge step to be able to just hear the first intimations of brilliance bubble up in your head for all the noise (and, really, there's just so much out there to consume already...). Then you have to, you know, write something or record something, and probably do it for a long time until your idea becomes a complete thing. And if you work in Hollywood, or advertising, or some other creative machine, you have to convince someone to buy and produce your idea in the way you intended it to be produced, when all they care about is international sales and likability and research findings. If it's just you, you either have to convince other people to pay for your project, or figure out a way to pay for it and get it in front of people yourself. And then when you do create something new, against all odds, you have to deal with people saying all kinds of misguided things about you, and it.
How To Budget Next Year's 2,000 Working Hours
Thinking differently about the time you have could put your work into perspective.
There are 8,760 hours in a year.
Why Are Resolutions So Hard To Follow?
Willpower isn't the only determinant of resolution success.
What do you want to achieve in 2015?
December 26, 2014
Our Top Web Design Stories Of 2014
Web design matters. Here are 16 stories that prove why.
A huge chunk of our modern lives is spent staring at screens, reading and interacting with the web. Web design has never been more crucial. From a detailed look at the New Yorker's online redesign to GIFs explaining responsive design, here are the 16 most popular web design stories we wrote in 2014.
10 Of The Most Fabulous Housing Designs Of 2014
From a house dangling off a cliff to an apartment designed to make friends, here are the most ingenious residential designs of the year.
Not everyone can live in a one-of-a-kind, architect-designed home, but there is no shortage of spectacular designs that make us wish we did, whether it's a single-family house designed to almost disappear into the prairie or a high-rise apartment building designed to encourage social bonding. Thoughtfully designed with both the site and the future resident in mind, these residential projects are the antithesis of the McMansion. Here are the housing designs that most made us want to pick up and move this year.
December 25, 2014
The Apps You Need Now to Keep Your Privacy Intact
Give yourself the gift of better digital security this holiday season.
There are the basic things you can do to protect your data and your phone, like avoiding public Wi-Fi networks, enabling built-in tools like "Find My iPhone," and using a good password. Both iOS and Android phones offer options for turning off "location services," so apps can't track your coordinates. But in an age of cyberattacks from renegade hackers, non-state actors, and government spies, it's not a terrible idea to arm your phone with apps that provide encrypted communication, anonymous browsing, and theft protection. Below, a tour of some of the best ones out there.
December 24, 2014
The 8 Things Technology Wants To Kill Next
These things are ripe for an overhaul in the new year.
One day I woke up and realized it had been years since I'd thought about my old Dell Axim X30 personal digital assistant (PDA), let alone touched one. The device quickly became extinct, replaced by other technology forging ahead. PDAs are the ancestors of our modern mobile phones, in the same way a lot of the items we're currently carrying around today will be looked back on in a few years the same way—in laughable disbelief that they lasted for so long.
You'll Be Able To Watch "The Interview" From Home On Christmas
Sony is releasing the film as a digital rental on Google Play and YouTube.
This Christmas, some of you might head over to the local movie theater to watch The Interview, a film about the fictional assassination of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un starring Seth Rogen and James Franco. Others, however, may just watch it on YouTube. (Updated, see bottom.)
Court Rules It's OK For Cops To Use Fake Instagram Accounts
A New Jersey court rules that police can go undercover to snoop on private Instagram profiles.
While the great Instagram Rapture of 2014 zapped millions of fake accounts, the photo-sharing service won't soon be rid of bogus friend requests. That's because a U.S. District Court in New Jersey ruled this week that it's perfectly legal for police to create fake Instagram accounts to go undercover and gather evidence.
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