18 tools that keep Fast Company editors organized and productive

Sometimes, getting organized can feel like there’s no good place to start. Sometimes it’s time management. Sometimes it’s reducing clutter. Sometimes it’s optimizing workflows. And sometimes, it’s just finding the best (for you) method to keep things where you need…

How to Form a Clear Voice and Tone for Your Brand

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Maybe your brand is already well-established. Or…it’s an idea living in your head. Either way, there comes a time as an entrepreneur where you’ll end up wondering how to form your brand…

Why Are So Few VCs Investing in BIPOC Companies?

Despite a significant rise in public awareness and pledges to increase inclusivity, minority-owned businesses continue to struggle with funding options. Data from the Federal Reserve found that roughly 80% of white companies receive a part of or entirety of the…

Factbox: Ukraine invasion chills IPO market – Reuters

SINGAPORE, Feb 28 (Reuters) – A selloff in global markets following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and subsequent Western sanctions has made companies cautious about initial public offerings (IPOs), with some putting their plans on hold. MSCI’s gauge of world stocks…

Meet Mali – home of manuscripts, music and magic

Timbuktu is a city fabled to exist at the edge of the world, where the southern stretches of the Sahara desert end and a world of rich scholarly tradition, architectural wonder and abundant artistic creativity begins. In reality, it’s located…

Opinion: Putins bombs arent weakening Ukraines resolve to fight

But as Russia’s war in Ukraine entered its third week Thursday, President Vladimir Putin didn’t seem interested in the fine points of military strategy. Missiles rained down relentlessly on Ukrainian cities. A bomb destroyed the maternity and children’s wards of…

Virgil Abloh’s Last Show

PARIS — “Question Everything.” Those words, written in block letters, were a motto for Virgil Abloh, the barrier-breaking designer, artist, D.J., furniture maker and conversationalist; founder of Off-White and artistic director of Louis Vuitton men’s wear; a man who once…

‘Life & Beth’ Review: Further Inside Amy Schumer

Amy Schumer has not been absent from television during the six years since the end of her intermittently brilliant sketch show, “Inside Amy Schumer.” She’s had a couple of Netflix stand-up specials and made a detour into reality TV (“Amy…

Picturing Black Childhood: An Artist’s Journey

Here are works by Doris Derby, who chronicled the civil rights movement in the 1960s, often focusing on women and children, and the teenage artists Fanta Diop and Dashara McDaniel, who took pictures of their fellow Black Lives Matter protesters…

‘Carpeaux Recast’: A Sculptural Gem With a Knotty Back Story

Traditional museums are literally conservative places. They’re built to freeze objects in time, to shield them from change. Too often the conservative impulse extends to institutional thinking, which leaves cultural ideals and values embodied in objects embalmed in Beauty and…

Why Gravel Gardens Are Better Than They Sound

It is precisely because of the gravel that upkeep is so drastically reduced. This is no mere top-dressing — not a mulch layer, but a deliberate foundation four or five inches deep that the garden is planted into. That depth…

How to Create a Home Bar That Will Dazzle Your Guests

The pleasures of visiting a cocktail bar extend well beyond the libations. It’s just as much about the company, the atmosphere, all the accouterments. At home, a thoughtfully designed bar can create a similar feeling and serve as a special…

The Brilliant Alchemy of Rick Owens

PARIS — A few months ago, when the designer Rick Owens started thinking about his fall collection, he was thinking about Covid and the re-emergence, and discos, and parties, and whether all of that was good or bad, and how…