In the business world, it isn’t enough to just create a smart product. You also need a super-smart business model. Case in point: the Noun Project, an online icon collective of more than 30,000 ...

Pop quiz: who designed the instantly-recognizable, universal symbol for “recycle”? Yeah, we didn’t know either — until we consulted The Noun Project, a brilliant site that’s part design utility, part ...

Try out this Mac app that gives you a library of 5 million simple images for projects and wordless communication. Photo: Cult of Mac Deals As much technology as we have, it’s still hard to land in a ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. In college, Edward Boatman was a “pretty rigorous” sketcher of simple objects like ...

Picture a dictionary that doesn't need words to get the point across. So Boatman thought he'd do something similar: use crowdsourcing to gather an army of people to define words, but instead of using ...