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A More Colorful Union

The pen public has questions about the Sailor 50 States fountain pen ink series. Sailor's U.S. distributor, Itoya Profolio, has the answers.

Graf von Faber-Castell Honors the Aztecs

Pen of the Year 2022: Aztecs is inspired by the history, mythology, and precious objects of the ancient Central American civilization.

A Mountain of Enduring Design Excellence

From the Conklin Endura Deco Crest to new pens in the Monteverde Regatta collection, California's Yafa Brands is bursting with creative new designs.

A Feast for 39+1 Years

With the new "39+1” fountain pen collection, Nino Marino reunites with his first love: Delta Pen Company.

VISIONARY OF THE YEAR - Euisun Chung, EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN, HYUNDAI MOTOR GROUP

HYUNDAI MOTOR GROUP’S Executive Chairman Euisun Chung isn’t just focused on the cars of today. He’s pushing the company, and its Hyundai, Kia and Genesis brands, into the future in several key ways. The company is becoming more vertically integrated, with Hyundai acquiring stakes in many of the companies that supply it with materials and components. It is bringing numerous electric models to market and testing hydrogen fuel-cell powered vehicles. And it has acquired a major robotics company with an eye toward a future in which wheeled devices will move people and things around their homes and workplaces.

MARKETING CAMPAIGN OF THE YEAR - Land Rover

LAND ROVER HAS BEEN supporting volunteer organizations and nonprofits across the world for almost a century. The company’s Defender Above & Beyond Awards are an extension of those efforts, combining the launch of a new vehicle with a marketing campaign that disrupts the traditional way of advertising a model, earning Land Rover Newsweek’s Auto Disruptors Marketing Campaign of the Year honors.

THE WORLD'S GREATEST AUTO DISRUPTORS 2022

The visionaries and innovators leading the industry into the digital future

Patrick Stewart

AFTER MORE THAN 30 YEARS PLAYING JEAN-LUC PICARD IN MANY iterations of Star Trek: The Next Generation and now with the Paramount Plus series Star Trek: Picard (season finale May 5), it’s wild to think Patrick Stewart almost might not have gotten the iconic part. “Gene Roddenberry [series creator] didn’t want me.”

Rethinking Republican Identity

Will Adam Kinzinger stay in the GOP? The retiring Congressman tells Newsweek and extremism could drive him away

RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT TEAM OF THE YEAR - Hyundai Motor Group

HYUNDAI MOTOR GROUP'S engineering team developed the company's new Electric Global Modular Platform (E-GMP), which underpins a new generation of vehicles aimed at democratizing an electrified future. It earns its creators Newsweek's Auto Disruptors Research and Development Team of the Year Award.

POWERTRAIN OF THE YEAR - Hyundai Motor Group

HYUNDAI MOTOR GROUP went into development of its new generation of electric vehicles aiming to improve efficiency and range.

EXECUTIVE OF THE YEAR - Jim Farley, PRESIDENT AND CEO, FORD MOTOR COMPANY

FORD PRESIDENT AND CEO Jim Farley’s grandfather worked on the line that built the Model T more than 100 years ago. Now Farley has been tasked with advancing the Ford family legacy of auto disruption and innovation into the twenty-first century by moving the company to the forefront of the industry’s digital future.

Forever in Their Hearts

Fontaines D.C. look at Irish identity from their new home in London

DESIGNER OF THE YEAR - Alfonso Albaisa, SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, GLOBAL DESIGN, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.

WHEN IT COMES TO AUTOMOTIVE design, the passion is in the process for Alfonso Albaisa, Nissan’s senior vice president of global design.

Banned: Silenced Stories of the Marginalized

SOME 1,597 BOOKS HAVE BEEN CHALLENGED OR removed from libraries over the past year, according to the latest figures from the American Library Association (ALA)—the highest number since the organization began keeping track 20 years ago.

‘The Big Quit' Roils Retail

Retailers are still short hundreds of thousands of workers. Here’s how the turnover is impacting merchants—and their employees

THE CREWMAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH

For years the destruction of the Brillante Virtuoso was one of the shipping industry's greatest mysteries. Then a man appeared claiming to know exactly what happened, and the hunt was on

The Evolution Of Luxury in the Galápagos

A cruise ship offers levels of poshness never before seen in Darwin's laboratory.

It's Hermès Time

After decades spent building its reputation as a watchmaker, the luxury fashion and leather-goods powerhouse is taking its place among the Swiss

How Uniqlo Became A Favorite in China

In addition to making popular styles, it's kept quiet about the country's human-rights record

How @jack got crypto pilled

Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter and Square, has a new obsession

Avoiding A Brazilian Detroit

The country's Motor City is losing plants and jobs in a sign of manufacturing decline

HAVE YOU PLUGGED IN A FORD LATELY?

With this month's release of the F-150 Lightning, the company is hoping to electrify new and traditional truck buyers alike, and-eventually—to replace its industry-defining gas-powered line

A Cup With a Cause

Cafe chain Bitty & Beau's is growing fast by hiring people with developmental disabilities

Would a Russian Gas Ban Crush German Industry?

As pressure builds for an embargo, business warns of a disaster

The Men Still Missing From the Workforce

After the wild ride of the past two years, employment among Americans in their prime working years, usually defined as age 25 through 54, is edging close to where it was before the pandemic.

How the Heck Do You Sell Scent Online?

Otherland cofounder Abigail Cook Stone got a ton of noes while nosing her way around the challenge.

Make Your Time More Valuable

You don’t always need to hire to grow your business. But you do need to rethink what makes you competitive.

When Teams Create Themselves

What happens when you allow employees to form their own teams and run their own projects? The answer: Innovation.

Can We Build With Garbage?

That’s the big, eco-friendly idea behind ByFusion, which turns plastic waste into construction material.