With the likes of Whedon, Smith, Groening, Del Toro, and Roth as interpreters, Morgan Spurlock explores what's become a pop culture mainstay in Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan’s Hope. Commonly, and mistakenly, considered the domain of smelly dudes in freaky costumes, Comic-Con has emerged as the epicenter for pop-culture influence and a hotbed for creativity
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At the Designer Fund’s first Designer Fair, IDEO’s Elle Luna explains how brands are increasingly seeking to gain customers and build loyalty by showing their human side. Want to build your brand? Traditionally that’s meant a lot of chest thumping
Read More »Lacroix Seating
The fashion-conscious Italian mosaic firm Sicis has teamed up with famed French couturier Christian Lacroix to produce a new line of furniture that highlights the designer’s signature affinity for jewel-like colors and extravagant materials and forms. Inspired by the mosaics of the sixth-century proto-feminist Empress Theodora (wife of Emperor Justinian ...
Read More »Rags2Riches Empowers Impoverished Women To Turn Recycled Scrap Into Haute Couture
Sick of being paid tiny wages to make crafts, Reese Fernandez-Ruiz started an organization to get famous designers to give her work cachet, and started helping get local craftswomen out of poverty. Reese Fernandez-Ruiz was teaching children math, science, and reading skills in Payatas--one of the Philippines' biggest dump sites--when she noticed something: local mothers were making foot rugs out of scrap cloth that was furnished to them by a group of middlemen, who got the cloth directly from a factory and retrieved the finished products to sell
Read More »One Step Forward, Two Steps Back, Repeat
The founder of parent-travel website FamiliesGo! chronicles her start-up shuffle. Tuesday was an interesting day
Read More »Why Facebook Photo Tags Are The New (And Possibly More Powerful) Likes
The social network’s small new feature could have a big impact. Yesterday Facebook rolled out a seemingly minor enhancement to their Photos feature.
Read More »Scandia’s New Bespoke Bed Linens
Scandia Home’s bed linens—including traditional goose down comforters—can now be custom-ordered to satisfy almost any design request through its new Designer Atelier, a service that was launched at the company’s Beverly Hills, Calif., store, which opened earlier this year. In addition to the wide offering of bedding (which ranges from ...
Read More »Jobs report paints complex picture.
Each day, Inc.'s reporters scour the Web for the most important and interesting news to entrepreneurs.
Read More »The Avatar’s New Clothes
Los Angeles-based startup Styku is chasing the Holy Grail of the online apparel business: making a virtual fitting room that actually works. How they're overcoming the various challenges of apparel software, including the most vexing problem of all--outfitting virtual breasts
Read More »The Worst PR On Earth (Day)
It's that time of the year again, when publicists everywhere pitch their most eco-friendly products in the silliest of ways. Let's hope they're at least diluting real environmentalism with reclaimed water. Happy Earth Day, everyone
Read More »How to Monetize Social Media
Many business executives have not found sites such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Myspace, and Linkedin useful in making money.
Read More »The Way I Work: Rashmi Sinha of SlideShare
Rashmi Sinha seemed destined for a career in academia. Born and raised in India, she earned her Ph.D. in psychology at Brown University and did her postdoctoral work in cognitive neuroscience at the University of California, Berkeley
Read More »Beyond Googling Yourself: Greplin
Admit it, you’ve Googled yourself to see what pops up. When I Google myself, what comes up on the first page is my company’s website, Inc.com, Wikipedia, LinkedIn, my book, my Twitter feed, and an article about my book.
Read More »Courtney Love settles Twitter rant lawsuit
Singer settles lawsuit by Dawn Simorangkir, who sued Love, accusing her of making false statements about the designer
Read More »Christina Hendricks models for Vivienne Westwood jewelry
"Mad Men" actress is the new face of the designer's "Get a Life" palladium jewelry collection
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