Shanghai graffiti writers paint live at the Search for Creative City (寻城记) series.

Actions Speak Loudest: Keeping Our Promise for a Better World, a new book by Robert McKinnon inspires us to keep a generational promise to leave the world a better place than we inherited.

This week continues Performa 09, the internationally acclaimed biennial of boundary-breaking art, held in New York City.

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

Agency laid you off? Make Lemonade.
That’s exactly what Eric Proulx did when he was laid off from his copywriting job. He launched his own blog as a support system for ad agency creatives and the overwhelming response inspired the idea for Lemonade. The short documentary candidly tells the story of former directors, designers, and writers from the instant they were fired and what came next. Each person describes how their dismissal dramatically changed their life. The time to pursue life-long dreams ranging from painting to holistic healing became new sources of creativity. Lemonade will be released for free online in late [...]

Wallpaper Magazine has created a new minisite called Wallspace* and has invited creatives to share the personal things that inspire them.
We make no bones of the fact that we enjoy rummaging through the more personal spaces of the creative folk whose work we admire. Be it imagining what their desks might look like, touring their studios or photographing their homes – any glimpse of life behind the scenes is interesting fodder for understanding what inspires, entertains and ultimately drives their work.
Now we’ve gone one step further and built a space for said creatives to fill with the things they hold [...]

“Twenty4 Hours of Perfect Content” (www.twenty4.tv) is a new digital art project that aims to turns your browser into a TV set using crowd-sourced content.

The brainchild of Michael Romanowicz (right), Twenty4.tv creates a channel-surfing experience by streaming a slideshow of preexisting websites. Next he’s asking you, “the crowd,” to help him populate a database of sites like these. When he has more than enough to work with, Romanowicz will attempt to curate 24 Hours of Perfect Content contextual to time of day and a number of other themes.
We caught up with Romanowicz to talk about his inspiration and why [...]

This past January, PSFK hosted the Good Ideas Salon London. After Mark Earls spoke on Why Good Ideas Matter, the discussion moved to a panel of Londoners who discussed Good Ideas from London. Given the question: “What positive inspiration is growing out of London’s creative renaissance?”, moderator Matt Hardisty (AnalogFolk), Matt Brown (Londonist), Justin Quirk (FHM), Taryn Ross (Urban Junkies), and Paul Andrew Williams (Steel Mill Pictures) explored empirical evidence used to compare the current creative climate of London to previous years to prove that London is still thriving culturally.
The panel discussed particular reasons why London was creatively unique and [...]

This past January, PSFK hosted the Good Ideas Salon London. Starting the day off, Mark Earls, author of Herd, began by discussing the importance of gathering inspiration across categories, market sectors, and groups – and ultimately, how to turn those insights into mass change. Effectively, Mark explains why innovation is important.
Mark Earls stressed that innovation is an exercise that needs to be practiced.  The mere process of looking for new ideas allows you to challenge whether or not your existing ones are any good. Even if a new idea is not perfect, it can still shine a new light on [...]

This past January, PSFK held a Good Ideas Salon in London bringing together the most forward-thinking tastemakers, innovators, and experts from around the world to discuss key areas steering innovation and opportunity.  In addition the the good ideas presented, we wanted to hear what our audience had to say, so we’re doing a series of posts containing feedback and comments from the event sourced from blogs, magazines, and twitter.  We’ve distilled the commentary, now you tell us which is the best idea…
At the Good Ideas Salon London, Mark Earls, author of Herd, started the day off by discussing the importance [...]

Like fellow Frenchwoman Colette Roussaux, Christiane Celle has mastered the art of curation. Each piece in her Calypso boutiques is an instant classic–easy, chic, and versatile. Her latest project, Clic Gallery, marks a shift from fashion to photography. This Noho store, opened in October 2008, has already earned a reputation for its careful selections and eclectic taste. You can find photography books from publishers such as Verlag Schaden, Rizzoli, Phaidon, Taschen, TeNeues, and Steidl, as well as small independent publishers,  signed trade titles, limited editions and artists editions with signed prints.
Last month, Clic St Barth opened near the banks of [...]

Inspiration can strike at any time, but it’s often hard to find. So how do creatives bake up ideas? And can they cater to all clients equally (and on time)?
Sometimes, even the best chef orders out. That’s the premise behind Fat Muffin a “creative playground where users get paid to play.” Started last year by Rahul Panchal (creative) and Jonathan Sadlowe (strategy), the start-up aims to crowdsource advertising (a model that his since been mimicked by some larger shops). As they put it, “We have convinced some fun companies to let you come up with their advertising. Now, all those [...]

Nice graphical style. Nice idea.