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The most innovative architecture companies for 2025

Fast Company Tech

Seattle-based NBBJ partnered with North Carolina healthcare provider Atrium Health to expand the niche field of prefabrication, creating the largest prefab healthcare construction in the United States. Some of the projects will also add new community buildings, and all are aiming for net zero energy use.

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He went undercover to catch art thieves. Now he’s using tech to stop forgeries

Fast Company Tech

Over the course of his nearly 30 years working as an undercover agent with the FBI, Walker had taken part in countless stings like this: posing as a buyer or dealer, meeting suspects in art-scented lounges or dusty storage units, working to earn their trust. He helped recover stolen Rembrandt paintings from a Seattle-area art thief.

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The Sharpie story: Inside a brand so strong that Starbucks is now depending on it

Fast Company Tech

With its familiar script logo and unflashy form factor, Sharpie’s core attribute is “dependability,” says Paola Antonelli , senior architecture and design curator and director of research and development at the Museum of Modern Art. to Blick Art Materials. Three in four said that the markers made them more creative.

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Exceptional Digital Experiences for Museums and Cultural Institutions

Forum One

Museums are magical places, where history, culture, art, and science seem to come to life. Our work with museums and cultural intuitions goes way beyond websites with easy-to-find visitor information (though that’s important too!) Forum One partnered with the Museum to launch their new brand to the world.

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The Diversity Question in the Arts Blogosphere

Museum 2.0

But this month, it's as if there was a subliminal email sent to a crew of bloggers in the arts suggesting a salon about audience diversity, and how/why to move in that direction. Jada is passionate about supporting the future of African-American heritage institutions and working to diversify the museum field as a whole.

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Four Models for Active User Engagement, by Nina Simon

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Nina has written a fantastic book engagement called The Participatory Museum. Most of my work involves museums, but these categories can be useful in any project that involves user participation. Nina Simon is an independent museum exhibit designer and publisher of the Museum 2.0

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Quick Hit: Three Blogs to Expand Your Arts Nonprofit Universe

Museum 2.0

Each of them comes from the extended family of museums: close enough to be relevant, far enough to spark new thinking. Joe Patti runs a performing arts center in Ohio. he has been blogging about arts management. He is based in Seattle, but the blog is pretty universal. Butts in the Seats. For ten years (!)