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Design Bridge and Partners created Nordeste, a new destination brand meant to represent Brazil's nine northeastern states as a cohesive region while preserving each state's distinct cultural identity. The project has been named winner of the Best Design Latin America category in Fast Company's 2026 Innovation by Design Awards, moving past the region's traditional beach-and-sunshine tourism imagery.
Fast Company's 2026 Innovation by Design Awards named its Latin America category winner, with Nordeste by Design Bridge and Partners taking top honors. The project is a destination brand unifying nine Brazilian states in the Northeast under one flexible visual identity that highlights regional cultural diversity rather than typical tourism imagery.
Yoto's Mini, a screen-free portable audio player for children, has been named winner of the Best Design Europe, Middle East, and Africa category at the 2026 Innovation by Design Awards. The device lets kids listen to stories and music without a screen or algorithm-driven recommendations, relying instead on physical cards to select content.
Australian fintech Zeller has released Terminal 2, an affordable all-in-one point-of-sale device built and designed domestically. The product won Best Design in Asia Pacific at the 2026 Innovation by Design Awards, recognized for reimagining payment hardware as a consumer-facing product rather than purely functional equipment.
Conway's Arcade is a modernized arcade cabinet that doesn't run classic pre-programmed games, but instead uses Google's Gemini 3.0 AI model to create games and their underlying rules in real time. The project has been named a winner in Fast Company's 2026 Innovation by Design Awards.
Fast Company's Innovation by Design Awards named Conway's Arcade, built by Special Guest X for Google, the winner in its artificial intelligence category. The project is an AI-driven arcade cabinet that continuously generates new variations of classic games such as Space Invaders and Breakout, alongside a list of other honorees in the category.
UC Berkeley's Grimes Engineering Center, designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, has been named a winner in Fast Company's 2026 Innovation by Design Awards. The building sits near a major Bay Area fault line and features a new seismic-responsive structural system engineered to withstand strong earthquakes, with the bracing left visible rather than hidden behind walls.
Fast Company named the winners of its 2026 Innovation by Design Awards in the architectural design category, honoring buildings and interiors that address challenges in the built environment. The top prize went to UC Berkeley's Grimes Engineering Center, designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, an adaptive-reuse project featuring a new seismic-responsive structural system aimed at improving earthquake resilience.
Tiffany & Co. partnered with agency L&C on the '1837 Tiffany Blue Conservation' campaign, which took the jeweler's tightly controlled signature hue and let it appear more freely to raise awareness about ocean health. The effort has been recognized as a winner in Fast Company's 2026 Innovation by Design Awards.
Fast Company's Innovation by Design Awards named its 2026 advertising and marketing winner: '1837 Tiffany Blue Conservation,' created by agency L&C for Tiffany & Co. in partnership with Pantone. The campaign repurposes Tiffany's signature blue color as a vehicle for promoting ocean conservation, and the awards also recognized several other honorees in the category.
New Orleans nonprofit MakeGood has developed a 3D-printing platform to produce pediatric mobility devices at a fraction of traditional manufacturing costs. The initiative was named a winner in the accessible design category of Fast Company's 2026 Innovation by Design Awards for its work helping children with mobility-limiting conditions.
Fast Company named the winners of its 2026 Innovation by Design Awards in the accessible design category. Make Good's Toddler Mobility Trainer, an open-source device that can be fully produced with 3D printing, took the top honor, alongside a list of other recognized projects in the category.