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FastCompany Design

OpenAI wants your brand mascot on Sora. What could possibly go wrong?

When OpenAI launched its text-to-video app Sora in September, there was immediate blowback. To absolutely no one's surprise, users on the platform had a field day using popular characters in their AI-generated videos, in all sorts of—admittedly creative!—situations. (See OpenAI founder Sam Altman ...

4 hours ago

FastCompany Design

OpenAI wants your brand mascot on Sora. What could possibly go wrong?

Muzli

Pixels of the Month: October 2025

7 hours ago

Muzli

Pixels of the Month: October 2025

Muzli

If Your Brand Isn’t Changing, It’s Already Dying

7 hours ago

Muzli

If Your Brand Isn’t Changing, It’s Already Dying

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FastCompany Design

Sotheby’s bid to turn an architectural destination into destiny

Despite its status as an architectural celebrity, the Breuer building, commissioned by the Whitney Museum in the 1960s, has never had an easy relationship with New York City. With a hulking, top-heavy build, brooding dark-gray granite cladding, and nearly windowless facade, it’s as introverted as ...

24 hours ago

FastCompany Design

Sotheby’s bid to turn an architectural destination into destiny

smashing magazine

Smashing Animations Part 6: Magnificent SVGs With `` And CSS Custom Properties

SVG is one of those web technologies that’s both elegant and, at times, infuriating. In this article, pioneering author and web designer Andy Clarke explains his technique for animating SVG elements that are hidden in the Shadow DOM.

24 hours ago

smashing magazine

Smashing Animations Part 6: Magnificent SVGs With `` And CSS Custom Properties

FastCompany Design

How the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is building a modern brand

The value of higher education has been on a steady decline for Americans over the past 15 years. According to a September Gallup poll, only 35% of U.S. adults said a college education is “very important,” compared to 75% in 2010. This is what a marketer would call a brand problem. The University ...

1 day ago

FastCompany Design

How the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is building a modern brand

FastCompany Design

If you like piña coladas and getting caught in the rain, Dole has a new fruit for you

Dole invented a new fruit. The Dole Colada Royale Pineapple is sweet and tangy with notes of coconut and, as the name suggests, piña colada. Unlike its golden yellow counterpart, the Colada Royale has a cream-colored pulp with a green-to-golden shell. It also took more than 15 years to get it ...

1 day ago

FastCompany Design

If you like piña coladas and getting caught in the rain, Dole has a new fruit for you

UX Collective

Material 3 Expressive: Building on the failures of flat design

1 day ago

UX Collective

Material 3 Expressive: Building on the failures of flat design

FastCompany Design

Inside Netflix’s big deal with AB InBev

The term brand entertainment is tough to define. For many people, it’s an oxymoron and these two words should never be in the same room as one another. For many others, though, it’s simply when brands make stuff we actually want to pay attention to. It could be a short ad, or a feature-length ...

1 day ago

FastCompany Design

Inside Netflix’s big deal with AB InBev

UX Collective

We wanted Superman-level AI. Instead, we got Bizarro.

2 days ago

UX Collective

We wanted Superman-level AI. Instead, we got Bizarro.

UX Collective

Is Figma in its accessibility era?

2 days ago

UX Collective

Is Figma in its accessibility era?

FastCompany Design

This fantastical pop-up book tells the mind-bending history of typography

Have you ever wondered how the letter “A” got its shape" Or why some fonts instantly look “psychedelic”" Or where the word “text” even came from in the first place" Kelli Anderson, a graphic artist, author, and master of all things paper, has asked all of those questions—and she’s ...

2 days ago

FastCompany Design

This fantastical pop-up book tells the mind-bending history of typography