It wasn't a stretch for the Mad Men writers to put Don Draper and his advertising-agency colleagues to work in the 1960 presidential campaign for dour Richard Nixon, not dynamic John F. Kennedy. In ...

Richard Florida, always a fan of cities including Seattle, seems to be having some second thoughts. The 2002 publication of his book, “The Rise of the Creative Class,” turned a professor into as much ...

The following post is an abridged excerpt from my new book, The Rise of the Creative Class, Revisited. When I first wrote Rise of the Creative Class, I looked at the creative class as one whole unit.

Our largest untapped resource for innovation and a growing economy is not solar or wind power. It's not social networking or electric vehicles. It is the many millions of people who have the free time ...

If you’ve just joined us, Oddpodz is a new online community for creative doers and problem solvers. Founder and branding expert Karen Post, who writes a regular column for FastCompany.com, brings you ...

18The Long Plot to Escape From Work 19The Artist Isn’t Dead View All I studied to be a painter in college and had what I now know is a pretty common experience. My fellow students and I produced ...

Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh has invested $350 million into remaking downtown Las Vegas as an arty “creative capital” a la Richard Florida. Credit: Aaron Mayes This is your first of three free stories this ...

A new group of talented writers has entered the literary world. Earlier this month, the College of Arts and Sciences graduated its first class of Creative Writing MFA students. The low-residency ...