http://www.psfk.com Your Go-To Source For New Ideas And Inspiration Wed, 15 Feb 2012 19:24:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.psfk.com/2011/09/can-kafka-subway-billboards-boost-literacy-in-mexico-headlines.html Tue, 13 Sep 2011 12:17:12 +0000 One of Mexico City's largest book retailers has partnered with the transportation authority to place excerpts from a Kafka story in 13 of the city's subway stations.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/08/ed-cotton-coding-the-corporate-language-of-the-near-future.html Wed, 10 Aug 2011 16:01:01 +0000 Ed Cotton asks us to consider learning coding as a new language. As our lives become more invested in the internet and computers, there is no doubt that knowing coding will provide us with more opportunities in the job market.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/06/monocolumn-quality-of-life-series-%e2%80%93-turning-a-page-in-faulkner-country.html Mon, 13 Jun 2011 17:41:26 +0000 In the latest Monocle column we learn how thriving independent bookstores in the Mississippi area, belie some of the lowest literacy rates in the United States.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/06/three-in-10-uk-children-own-no-books.html Wed, 01 Jun 2011 12:47:41 +0000 Research reveals startlingly high numbers of boys and girls have no books of their own, with worrying implications for their future prospects.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/05/kalimat-a-magazine-to-advance-design-and-linguistic-literacy.html Thu, 05 May 2011 16:12:55 +0000 PSFK interviews the Toronto-based founder of Kalimat Magazine, Danah Abdulla.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/05/uniting-work-and-play-to-promote-innovation.html Tue, 03 May 2011 16:58:42 +0000 An article in The Atlantic examines America's creativity crisis and the ways 'play' could serve as potential antidote. ]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/03/dogs-as-literacy-mentors.html Wed, 02 Mar 2011 16:59:48 +0000 A US-based program which sees dogs acting as teaching aids to better develop child literacy is now taking off in the UK.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/02/kinect-hack-brings-kids-imaginations-to-life-through-holographic-storytelling.html Fri, 25 Feb 2011 16:39:39 +0000 British artist and designer Chris O'Shea, the man who brought us the Air Guitar Kinect hack, has made yet another playful augmentation to the software. ]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/08/forging-mexicos-identity-through-street-sounds.html Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:52:59 +0000 The country declares a National Sound Week in an attempt to maintain their cultural heritage. ]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/07/the-most-imaginative-social-good-campaigns.html Tue, 13 Jul 2010 10:26:22 +0000 Forbes magazine has compiled a visual collection of the most imaginative csr initiatives.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/06/braille-ball-helps-blind-and-sighted-learn-language.html Wed, 30 Jun 2010 15:59:30 +0000 An educational toy helps improve tactile literacy in a fun and socially-engaging way.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/05/self-published-libraries-fastpencil-helps-spread-literacy-in-rural-africa.html Fri, 14 May 2010 17:05:10 +0000 Self book publishing company FastPencil is joining Friends of African Village Libraries to bring more books and spread literacy in rural Africa.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/01/scratch-a-programming-language-for-kids.html Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:59:30 +0000 The MIT Media Lab has developed a programming language simple enough for children to use.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/12/the-elastic-concept-of-libraries-in-laos.html Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:52:43 +0000 The Language Project and Community Learning International, are helping shape a brighter future for the people of Laos through the creation of libraries uniquely geared towards the needs of their end users.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/10/the-coming-age-of-universal-authorship.html Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:03:47 +0000 How will universal authorship shape future society? Seed Magazine has published an article that poses just that question, examining the growing numbers of "publishers" across all medium.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/05/the-cookie-is-the-hyperlink-why-distraction-is-ok.html Tue, 19 May 2009 20:42:19 +0000 Sam Anderson has a wonderful article in New York Magazine that examines our modern culture of multi-tasking. He explores both sides of the attention spectrum from continuous partial attention to executive focus, and concludes that maybe all this distraction we’re experiencing is not all that bad. It’s a long (by internet standards) but worthwhile read. Anderson on the benefits of distraction: The prophets of total attentional meltdown sometimes invoke, as an example of the great culture we’re going to lose as we succumb to e-thinking, the canonical French juggernaut Marcel Proust. And indeed, at seven volumes, several thousand pages, andRead more...]]>