Behance & Cool Hunting are teaming together to host a conference that “focuses less on idea-generation, and more on how inspiration and organization come together to make ideas happen.” More often than not, the realities of bringing ideas to life cause even the best ones to die a mediocre death. As Director/Curator Aaron Rose admits, “Managing budgets is the hardest part of any creative project.” While we don’t expect The 99% to get into the finer details of project management, we’re glad to finally see a conference that explores a side of the creative process that always gets overlooked — [...]

Gizmodo is bringing a bundle of interesting electronics to display to visitors of the Reed Space in New York.  The Gizmodo Gallery begins today and continues until December 7th, with funding coming from GizMine, an online store of well designed gadgets like the recently written about Mir:ror.  The gallery is a huge collection of items (aspirational, for most) and gives visitors the opportunity to actually play around with the latest toys, games, and electronics.  Gizmodo is bringing a Red One Camera (to be played back on a 103-inch plasma screen), the world’s most powerful flashlight and some Gundam slippers that [...]

The Jen Bekman gallery is currently hosting the Thrilla in Manila, “a no holds barred draw-a-thon” between artists Jane Mount and Jason Polan to benefit 826NYC, a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting youth writing.  The live art experience began December 3rd and will run until 6pm December 6th.  In the spirit of community and collaboration, the press release invites the audience to “come into the gallery, join in the drawing, learn how to draw, be drawn yourself, or just root for your favorite artist,” opening up the creative process in a way that can’t be captured by simply looking at a [...]

Despite a long list of “must try” restaurants in our neighborhood, last week we opted for an entirely new experience and attended the launch of the Good Knife, a new underground supper club in Manhattan’s Gramercy area.
Originally, many such clubs arose as a means of allowing chefs to stretch their creativity. Participants could enjoy an intimate and casual setting, welcome in an era ruled by theme restaurants and grand settings. Foodies especially jumped at the chance to sample new talent. As the popularity of underground restaurants and eating clubs grew, so did the scale and spectacle of [...]

The fine people at Blurb have offered free shipping within the US for our book Good Ideas In 2009. All you have to do is add ‘freeshipping’ in to the promo-code box on the product page here before Dec 9 (and read the small print below*).
Want to know more about the book? Well, at this time of year we’re supposed to produce a trends report for 2009. When we all sat down and chatted about it, we thought such a report would be so gloomy and rather depressing. We didn’t want to write about things like ‘trading down’ or ‘discreet [...]

Allison Mooney, friend and Contributing Editor to PSFK, will be moderating our first Good Ideas in 2009 Salon on Tuesday, November 18th.  The discussion will surround ideas and innovations in the Mobile space as we look ahead to next year.
Allison Mooney has been working in media and marketing for six years and was part of the launch team for Mobile Behavior, a new Omnicom Group company. As the Director of Trends & Insights, Allison manages the group’s R&D lab, NGT, leads behavioral research efforts, and guides thinking on youth trends, mobile innovations, and consumer behavior. She also started and currently runs [...]

PSFK is happy to include Alistair Fulton, Senior Manager in Deloitte’s Telecommunications, Media & Technology practice, as a speaker in our Good Ideas in 2009 Salon.  Alistair will be participating in our first discussion surrounding ideas and innovations in the Mobile space on the morning of Tuesday, November 18th.
Alistair has over 15 years of experience in customer and brand strategy, product development and performance transformation in the wireless space both in an advisory role and in industry.  Prior to joining Deloitte Consulting he served as SVP of Strategy & Business Performance for O2, the largest wireless operator in the United Kingdom. [...]

PSFK is excited to announce Steve Roberts, CEO and Founder of ShopText, as a speaker in our Good Ideas in 2009 Salon.  Steve will be participating in our first discussion surrounding ideas and innovations in the Mobile space on the morning of Tuesday, November 18th.
ShopText has developed a technology that brings the shopping experience directly to the cell phone, enabling consumers and brands to interact via text message.  This new model literally takes retail anywhere, to a point where brick and mortar stores and even internet connections are no longer necessary.
Steve Roberts launched ShopText in November 2006. Prior to ShopText, [...]

If you’re in London, you still have time to check out (and participate in) Kemistry’s ‘First Impressions Last’ exhibition, a collaborative project with Fallon that offers a playful look at identity, anonymity, and naturally, first impressions. Until the beginning of November, visitors are invited into the gallery to stand before 5 writers, seated in the room, and become the subject of a two-minute free writing session. A polaroid is then taken of the subject, which is kept with the writers’ vignettes. Then, as part two of the exhibit, for the month of November participants and visitors will be challenged to [...]

Londonist points us to a great social art project to be unveiled at the Tate Modern this weekend. As part of artist Cildo Meireles’ Malhas de Liberdade / Meshes of Freedom piece, thousands of Londoners were mailed a set of three orange plastic rods, all parts of a gigantic mesh to be assembled at the museum on the on Saturday. The community-assembled piece will become part of Meireles’ ongoing series of mathematically- and literary-inspired mesh works, which have been seen three iterations since his first mesh piece appeared in 1976 (in the form of cotton weaved together by a fisherman [...]

Where will you be Friday morning? At Likemind, that’s where! If you live in (or will be stopping through) any of these cities, please join us and other Likemind-ed folks for some refreshing conversation and coffee, from 8:00am-10am Fri, Oct 17. Check out the Facebook event page for more info, and why not join your local Likemind Facebook group while you’re at it. NYCers, looking forward to seeing you all at ‘Snice in Manhattan…

Dr. Sketchy’s is an interesting hybrid between art school life drawing classes and a burlesque performance. Attendees gather to drink, socialize and draw unusual models (think: circus freaks, ballet and burlesque dancers and muscle men). The event takes the stuffynes out of the art class experience and encourages light hearted fun with drawing contests and comedy skits. They encourage anyone to come too, whether a pro artist, or rank amateur – it’s more about the experience than making a masterpiece. Dr. Sketchy’s happens in Williamsburg, Brooklyn every other Sunday, and has branched out to 53 cities around the world.
Dr. Sketchy’s [...]

We are delighted to be participating in this year’s Designboost conference in Malmö, Sweden, taking place from Oct 15-17. Designboost is a knowledge company that aims to share design knowledge through their different events and publications. Since 2007 David Carlson and Peer Eriksson have been the heads behind the designboost conference. David is also the publisher of David Report, where he regularly compiles a bulletin covering the intersection of design, culture and business life.
Designboost gathers creative thinkers (or Boosters as David and Peer prefer to call them) from all over the world to workshop, lecture and discuss one current theme [...]

On Sep 11, the fifth annual Conflux Festival will take over NYC, bringing together creative-minded people from around the world interested in exploring and discussing technology, culture, and urban space. The festival, headquartered at the Center for Architecture in Greenwich Village, includes lectures, art installations, ’street art interventions’, performances, tours, workshops, film and music designed to celebrate and challenge how we think about the ecology of the city. Via Flavorpill:
Converse with keynote speaker Chris Carlsson (co-founder of Critical Mass and editor of Processed World), participate in Twiceband’s staging of John Cage’s 49 Waltzes for the 5 Boroughs, and take a [...]

The Generosity Foundation, (or The Federation of Students and Nominally or Unemployed Artists) is part performance art and part micro-lending grant program. The group of 10, each gathered $100 then pooled the money to be given away as grants to jump start art projects. This past June, they set up a booth in a New York park and gave away cash and official looking grant certificates to random aspiring artists that passed by. The Foundation will be doing more free-form giving this week in New York, as part of the Conflux Festival.
The Generosity Foundation explains how it works:
The FSNUA aims [...]