Every fall the trees lose their leaves, the days get shorter, and the minds of today's top designers get together for a festive think tank called the Masters of Design. Authored by Fast Company Magazine, MOD pulls together a motley crew of design thinkers for some serious chin scratching and commentary. For the third year in a row, Brett Lovelady, our very own design master and FastCo expert blogger, has been invited to participate and share his thoughts, hopes and dreams regarding this year's theme: The state of American Design. ASTRO is proud to partner up year after year with Fast Company and here’s to another year of fine reading and design+business blogging with the FastCo crew. And if you want to sample some of ASTRO’s “American as apple pie” Design ....click on this blue plate special we call ASTROphysics.