http://www.psfk.com Your Go-To Source For New Ideas And Inspiration Wed, 15 Feb 2012 20:57:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.psfk.com/2011/12/mobile-payment-platform-unveils-new-instant-cash-feature-for-users.html Thu, 22 Dec 2011 18:12:12 +0000 Dwolla now lets users spend up to 500 USD instantly anytime, anywhere, using their Instant service.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/09/ruby-pseudo-a-19-year-old-on-conspicuous-consumption.html Wed, 21 Sep 2011 16:28:23 +0000 A millenial's thought's on the culture of consuming luxury products propagated by certain musical artists.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/09/hour-by-hour-breakdown-of-media-consumption-by-generation-infographic.html Tue, 20 Sep 2011 16:01:55 +0000 A 2011 content consumption infographic profiles overall use in 2011 by medium, generation, and time of day. ]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/09/retail-strategy-design-and-the-search-for-the-meaning-of-life.html Wed, 14 Sep 2011 18:06:15 +0000 Can the analogies we craft to guide our strategies and design lead us to extraordinary visions and great intentions or simply to unmet consumer expectations?]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/09/do-modern-products-have-good-enough-to-allow-for-collaborative-consumption.html Tue, 06 Sep 2011 10:14:10 +0000 As we stared at a flat tire on our Parisian shared-bike, we wondered whether stuff is created these days to be overly used. ]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/08/powershop-bringing-power-to-the-people-in-electricity-2-0.html Tue, 16 Aug 2011 12:10:58 +0000 The world's first online energy store aims to provide New Zealand's power customers with the best deals in electricity. ]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/08/flat-screen-tvs-consume-60-less-electricity-headlines.html Tue, 02 Aug 2011 15:09:39 +0000 Since 2006, flat-screen TVs have consumed 60% less electricity than their previous generations.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/07/faveous-an-aggregator-for-all-your-online-favorites.html Sat, 30 Jul 2011 15:25:07 +0000 A French teenager's entrepreneurial venture could change the way you consume your favorite information online.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/04/why-drives-us-to-buy.html Tue, 05 Apr 2011 14:56:26 +0000 PsyBlog identifies some of the cognitive biases that predispose us to shop, consume, purchase and buy - with implications for both those that want to do less buying of their own, and for those that want to persuade others to buy more.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/03/1x2-app-enables-matching-donation-to-a-child-in-need.html Thu, 24 Mar 2011 15:19:34 +0000 The winner of our Future of Mobile Tagging concepts for UNICEF competition aims to change the world of consumption, using mobile innovation to educate people in their daily buying experience by opening their minds to realities.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/12/creating-communities-to-fight-against-overconsumption.html Wed, 22 Dec 2010 19:47:17 +0000 Smart is an organization making an effort to reduce frivolous spending, hoping to get consumers to think about our culture of consumption. ]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/11/life-edited-graham-hills-design-contest-promotes-happiness-by-living-with-less.html Thu, 04 Nov 2010 20:46:40 +0000 Treehugger's founder launches the design competition, "Life Edited" to encourage more people to live with less.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/09/this-week-in-brand-strategy-advertising-13.html Fri, 10 Sep 2010 17:02:30 +0000 PSFK curates some of the brand strategy, digital and creative advertising news and ideas that caught our attention this past week.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/07/ed-cotton-the-end-of-obsolescence-branded-refurbishingupdating-centers.html Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:18:53 +0000 While most categories demand obsolescence, perhaps too many corporations and brands are only too willing and eager to let their customers give up on the products too fast and send them to landfill.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/04/clay-shirky-on-the-complexity-and-collapse-of-business-models.html Wed, 07 Apr 2010 15:07:34 +0000 Clay Shirky investigates the institutions of industry and the role complexity plays in a digital age.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/02/without-new-clothes-for-a-year-the-great-american-apparel-diet.html Tue, 23 Feb 2010 18:45:40 +0000 The Great American Apparel Diet is a group of women that are abstaining from buying any new apparel for a year. ]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/02/ads-targeting-food-waste-in-brazil.html Tue, 17 Feb 2009 16:21:47 +0000 According to the Akatu Institute for Conscious Consumption, one third of all that is consumed in Brazil goes straight to the trash. This means that 39,000 tons of food are thrown away everyday. In the meantime, a reported 14 million Brazilians are starving. In order to combat this waste of food, and various other issues directly related to it, the Akatu Institute has launched a campaign to promote conscious consumption. To encourage real change, the campaign focuses on what affects consumers more directly: their pockets. Using a non-aggressive tone, the campaign not only explains how consumption affects the planet butRead more...]]> http://www.psfk.com/2005/07/is-curated-consumption-a-lie.html Fri, 15 Jul 2005 20:03:00 +0000 When in London, it's always a pleasure to wander around the hundreds of boutiques that dot the back streets between West Soho and Endell Street - you find such creative energy and individual style, they ache with signs of what could be next in retail, design, branding, marketing.]]>