PSFK sat down to talk with Diesel Founder Renzo Rosso about inspiration, the Internet, nature and more.

On September 7, the James Dyson Award will be given out to the individual who best designs “something that solves a problem”. Here are 5 of our favorite contenders for the prize…

In Berlin, a set of guerrilla marketing tactics were noticed recently. At the annual Awards show of the Art Directors Club last week, a real life ram promoted Future:headz, a Munich-based agency whose tagline is ‘Bock auf Neues’, a take on the English expression ‘going for new stuff’. The key to understanding the campaign though, is the fact that ‘bock’ translates to ‘ram’ in English.

Second, to focus attention on intelligent advertising work and not just awards, Future:headz installed two mannequins in various (ahem!) sexual positions to convey the message ‘make love not awards’. That was bound to attract attention!

And finally, [...]

Japan’s visual and technologically-focused culture sets it up for creating killer interactive work. When Projector, a small unknown digital shop in Tokyo, won last year’s Cannes Titanium for Uniqlock, people started taking notice. Iain Tait, a co-founder of Poke, recently posted a list of “9 reasons why Japanese interactive work is awesome” on his blog, Crackunit.com. The list is based on his experience judging this year’s One Show Interactive Awards and observing that the most outstanding work seems to be coming from Japan. Although he makes the disclaimer that his observations are based on assumptions and generalizations, he [...]

The Marketing Sherpa Awards received 170,000 votes towards their nominations for best marketing blogs in categories such as best individual blog and best group blog. Check out the list of winners and the PSFK team’s commentary.
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List of nominees for the British Mercury Music Prize have been announced for 2004…