COVER FEATURES
Pretty Resilient
Cara Brzezicki has created to help people all her life, and nothing’s going to stop her now. “She said it was the most stupid invention she had ever seen.”—A product development executive’s critique of the Flusher Blocker.
Nutty About Putty
The creative tsunami behind the desk toy and stress reliever Thinking Putty—and founder of Crazy Aaron’s, a physical and online wonderland of goopy, slimy stuff and special dough to captivate and engage the senses—is a software engineer-turned inventor/entrepreneur with a child’s energy, curiosity and vision who employs hundreds of developmentally disabled people.
Power Surge
As women entrepreneurs explode in numbers, groups build strength via networking and innovation. When Melissa Barker was a little girl, she knew marketing was going to be her career. She might not have known she was going be part of a revolution.
Spared and Spurred
Inventor/entrepreneur Molly Wilson, who could have been on that plane, lives with added gratitude and purpose. Molly Wilson decided to change her life. Little did she realize that choice may have prevented her death.
Listen to This Song
Sixty years ago this month, Paul McCartney and John Lennon met with a music publisher, an attorney and Beatles manager Brian Epstein at Epstein’s Liverpool home. Little did McCartney and Lennon realize they were getting a ticket to ride replete with misery.
Designing History
The story of the Rolling Stones’ Hot Lips logo is much more involved than an artist who drew a dramatic exaggeration of Mick Jagger’s famously infamous mouth. It involves the group’s acrimonious exit from their longtime label. It involves a London art tutor who believed in Pasche’s prodigious talents.