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Saudia Airlines developed a redesigned Ihram, the traditional garment worn by Hajj pilgrims, that incorporates built-in cooling technology to help travelers cope with extreme heat during the journey to Mecca. The garment, called the Coolest Ihram, has been named a winner in Fast Company's 2026 Innovation by Design Awards.
Fast Company's 2026 Innovation by Design Awards recognized winners in its enduring impact category, reserved for companies operating at least 15 years. The top honor went to The Coolest Ihram, a design by Landor featuring temperature-regulating fabric intended for pilgrims making the journey to Mecca.
Fast Company named Google a winner in its 2026 Innovation by Design Awards for the way it is shaping AI-powered interfaces. The recognition points to Google's role in redefining user interaction patterns beyond the classic search box it introduced decades ago.
Fast Company has released its 2026 Innovation by Design Awards, with Google topping the design company of the year category. The recognition credits Google's work redesigning interfaces across its widely used products to weave in AI features while keeping the experience user-friendly. The full list also includes other honorees recognized for design that spans products, services, and overall customer experience.
Fast Company revealed its 2026 Innovation by Design Awards winners in the data design category, recognizing projects that use data to improve user experiences through visualizations, interfaces, or algorithms. Pentagram's 'A Data Love Letter to the Subway,' a two-minute hand-drawn animation displayed across 52 screens at Fulton Transit Center, took the top honor for transforming New York subway data into an artistic visual narrative.
The North Face has released the Universal Collection, a line of camping equipment designed with accessibility in mind, which won a spot in Fast Company's 2026 Innovation by Design Awards. The project traces back to 2017, when the brand's first disabled sponsored athlete, ski mountaineer Vasu Sojitra, began pushing the company to rethink gear design for people with different physical abilities.
Fast Company named the North Face's Universal Collection as the top design in its 2026 Innovation by Design Awards for North America. The collection was developed in partnership with the disability community to adapt camping and outdoor gear so it's usable by people with a range of physical needs.
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.
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.