12 posts and columns on designer

Fab.com Acquires FashionStake After Seven Months of Rapid Growth

in Commerce on January 13 at 6:00 am PT

Fab.com, a New York-based flash sales site known for selling home decor, apparel and other items from independent designers, has acquired FashionStake.
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Fast Company Pops Onto the Flash Sales Scene for Designer Edition

in Commerce on September 14, 2011 at 6:02 am PT

Fast Company is not just writing about the U.S.-designed items featured in next month’s edition of the magazine. It’s selling them.
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Quoi? France's Big Flash Sales Site Vente-Privee Signs Joint Venture With American Express to Enter U.S.

in Commerce on May 12, 2011 at 7:00 am PT

Vente-privee.com, a French-owned flash sales site with about 13 million members and more than $1 billion in European sales, is forming a joint venture with American Express to enter the U.S. market.

Finding the Scale of the Rest of the World Lacking, Early Designer Rejoins Facebook

in Social on February 14, 2011 at 5:00 am PT

Aaron Sittig, who left Facebook after being the company’s lead designer for five years, is now back at the mother ship, having rejoined in January with the title “product architect.”

Custom Shoe Site Milk & Honey Gets Tripped Up After TV Spot

in Commerce on February 2, 2011 at 11:20 am PT

Milk & Honey, a Web site started by two sisters that lets women design their own shoes, is back online today after its business came to a screeching halt after making a rare appearance on E! News.

QOTD: Sculley on Steve Jobs and Success by Design

“The thing that separated Steve Jobs from other people like Bill Gates–Bill was brilliant too, but Bill was never interested in great taste. He was always interested in being able to dominate a market. He would put out whatever he had to put out there to own that space. Steve would never do that. Steve believed in perfection….When I think about different kinds of CEOs–CEOs who are great leaders, CEOs who are great turnaround artists, great deal negotiators, great people motivators–but the great skill that Steve has is he’s a great designer. Everything at Apple can be best understood through the lens of designing.”

– John Sculley, one-time CEO of Apple, offers his insights into the secrets of Steve Jobs’s success in a long interview with “Cult of Mac” author Leander Kahney.

News Byte

A New Role at Google for Marissa Mayer: Location, Local Services

in News on October 12, 2010 at 11:00 am PT

Marissa Mayer, designer and developer of Google’s iconic search product–and, as its first female engineer, an icon herself–will be taking a new role overseeing location and local services for the company, according to an email statement. As vice president of search products, Mayer introduced more than 100 products and features, and expanded the site to over 100 languages.

Almost Famous: Ben Zotto of Cocoa Box Design

in News on May 28, 2010 at 12:05 pm PT

This week, we coffee’d at Coupa Cafe on the Stanford University campus to interview Ben Zotto. He’s the mind behind Cocoa Box Design, the app company responsible for Penultimate, a sleeper hit at the iPad App Store. Ben is developing popular software that is just a little outside of Apple CEO Steve Jobs’s vision for his “magical” device. That doesn’t seem to bother Zotto though.

More Stuff You Won’t See on Tablet Day: Condé Nast Magazines

in Media on January 25, 2010 at 10:22 am PT

I got a great glimpse of the future of magazines last week. It’s the March issue of Wired, transformed into a digital edition that takes full advantage of the Apple tablet we’re going to see on Wednesday. But you’re not going to be able to buy a tabletized Wired for some time: Condé Nast, like most would-be Apple media partners, simply doesn’t know that much about the device yet.

Apple Challenges Woolworths Over Logo Similarities

in News on October 5, 2009 at 5:01 am PT

Woolworths Supermarkets describes its new logo as “an abstract leaf symbol” intended to represent fresh food. But to Apple, the stylized “W” looks far too much like its own namesake fruit, which could be problematic should the supermarket chain someday decide to peddle its own brand of consumer electronics. And so Apple is petitioning IP Australia, the local agency that governs trademarks, to reject the Woolworths application for the mark.
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A Google Lawyer Waves Goodbye, Lands at Twitter

in Media, July 12, 2009 at 7:38 am PT

Apple Ups Stake in iPhone Chip Firm

in News, June 26, 2009 at 5:30 am PT