http://www.psfk.com Your Go-To Source For New Ideas And Inspiration Wed, 15 Feb 2012 14:30:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.psfk.com/2011/11/pattern-pulp-flat-contact-lenses-from-japan-get-innovative-packaging.html Wed, 30 Nov 2011 19:24:20 +0000 Disposable daily contacts get an updated packaging design that highlights the constantly renewing aspect of the product.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/08/monocolumn-will-apple-still-be-apple-without-steve-jobs.html Thu, 25 Aug 2011 16:56:09 +0000 In today's column from luxury magazine, Monocle, we learn about what could happen to the Apple brand after the departure of Steve Jobs?]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/08/monocolumn-quality-news-reporting-doesnt-need-hd.html Mon, 22 Aug 2011 16:45:28 +0000 In today's column from Monocle, Alex Crawford of Sky News shows the essence of old-fashioned, frontline reporting.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/08/monocolumn-what-spurred-moscows-inexplicable-brick-paving-frenzy.html Mon, 08 Aug 2011 17:26:42 +0000 In today's column from luxury magazine Monocle, Moscow's plans to repave asphalt sidewalks with bricks has stirred up some criticism. Could the project have anything to do with the fact that the mayor's wife was once associated with a brick and curbing business?]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/08/monocolumn-water-fights-in-tehran-cause-uproar.html Thu, 04 Aug 2011 17:25:38 +0000 In today's column from luxury magazine Monocle, when a water fight involving 3,000 people broke out in Tehran, police started to make several arrests, for no apparent reason.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/08/monocolumn-polish-minister-shamefully-resignsthen-runs-for-senate.html Wed, 03 Aug 2011 16:35:36 +0000 In today's column from luxury magazine, Monocle, a report on the plane crash that killed former Polish president Lech Kaczyński, and caused defence minister Bogdan Klich to resign. ]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/08/monocolumn-obamas-message-of-change-is-now-one-of-compromise.html Tue, 02 Aug 2011 19:51:34 +0000 In today's column from luxury magazine, Monocle, we learn that as the United States reaches its debt limit, its Obama's slow-yielding attempts at turning around the recession that are being blamed.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/07/monocolumn-peru-celebrates-inauguration-of-left-leaning-government.html Fri, 29 Jul 2011 17:24:29 +0000 A new president brings with him an air of optimism and change that many Peruvians are looking forward to.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/07/monocolumn-the-downsides-of-portugals-popularity.html Thu, 28 Jul 2011 16:42:54 +0000 In today's column from luxury magazine Monocle, we learn about how low prices attract tourists to Portugal, but could create long-term disadvantages for the country's economy.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/07/monocolumn-airbus-and-boeing-battle-for-american-airlines-next-generation-of-fuel-efficient-airplanes.html Wed, 27 Jul 2011 18:09:34 +0000 In today's column from luxury magazine, Monocle, American Airlines scores a superior deal on 460 fuel-efficient airplanes, by offering both Boeing and Airbus the job.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/07/monocolumn-russian-jewish-town-welcomes-investments-from-china.html Tue, 26 Jul 2011 16:58:49 +0000 In today's column from luxury magazine, Monocle, we learn about the autonomous Jewish town of Birobidzhan and how it is looking forward to a better future with the help of Chinese investments.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/07/monocolumn-japan-to-consider-geothermal-energy-but-wont-sacrifice-hot-springs.html Mon, 25 Jul 2011 16:27:47 +0000 In today's column from luxury magazine, Monocle, we learn that Japan is looking at geothermal energy, as a way to power the nation, but businesses in the hot spring industry fear it would deplete their sources.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/07/monocolumn-los-angeles-survives-weekend-closure-of-i-405.html Thu, 21 Jul 2011 16:51:38 +0000 In today's column by luxury magazine, Monocle, we read about how traffic dropped by 65% during a road closure on America's busiest highway and Los Angeles learned to be less car-dependent.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/07/monocolumn-murdoch-the-peoples-tyrant.html Fri, 15 Jul 2011 16:12:54 +0000 In today's column from luxury magazine Monocle, we learn about Rupert Murdoch and how his reign as a despotic media honcho may have been more consensual and less dictatorial than we might have imagined.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/07/monocolumn-the-drug-war-%e2%80%93-why-not-to-fight-fire-with-fire.html Tue, 05 Jul 2011 18:39:26 +0000 In luxury magazine Monocle's daily column they discuss the best method to tackle the war on drugs in fraught Mexico.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/06/monocolumn-sino-indian-rapprochement%e2%80%a6through-the-medium-of-yoga.html Mon, 27 Jun 2011 17:46:12 +0000 In today's column from luxury magazine, Monocle, we learn about how yoga is bringing international communities calmly together. ]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/06/monocolumn-quality-of-life-series-%e2%80%93-hong-kong-airport%e2%80%99s-third-runway.html Thu, 16 Jun 2011 17:52:28 +0000 In today's column from Monocle Magazine, we learn about how Hong Kong airport is building a third runway to help it keep up with its competitors in mainland China.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/06/quality-of-life-series-%e2%80%93-neon-signs-of-change.html Wed, 15 Jun 2011 17:27:01 +0000 In today's column from luxury magazine Monocle, we discuss neon advertising is so ubiquitous in city squares, it becomes part of the urban identity as well as the landscape. So when it changes, a city must recreate its identity.]]> 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/monocolumn-former-factory-worker-set-to-shake-up-politics.html Wed, 01 Jun 2011 14:22:27 +0000 As political reincarnations go, few have been as radical as that of Patricia De Lille, the 60-year-old firebrand politician who will today be sworn in as mayor of Cape Town. ]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/05/monocolumn-new-poll-reveals-palestinians%e2%80%99-choice-of-citizenship.html Wed, 25 May 2011 15:03:44 +0000 A new poll suggests that a third of those Palestinians currently living in East Jerusalem would far rather take Israeli citizenship than Palestinian.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/05/monocolumn-english-language-newspaper-gets-design-makeover.html Mon, 23 May 2011 14:54:59 +0000 “Today’s paper is just sparkling. I’m very proud of it,” exclaims Mario García – also known as the newspaper doctor – from his seat at Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post offices in Causeway Bay. ]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/05/monocolumn-a-new-phase-in-the-harlem-renaissance.html Fri, 20 May 2011 16:15:37 +0000 There are few neighbourhoods that are as quintessentially New York as Harlem. Stretching from the top of Central Park all the way up to 155th Street, the area’s cultural diversity and history of boom and bust have led to its notoriety as one of the city’s roughest districts.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/05/monocolumn-nyc-series-%e2%80%93-disused-railway-transformed-into-ambitious-parkland.html Mon, 16 May 2011 16:33:58 +0000 In a town where residents regard themselves as difficult to impress, the scale of success the public park has experienced since it opened in June 2009 has been a warming surprise.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/05/monocolumn-aviation-is-taking-off-%e2%80%93-but-the-boom-comes-at-a-price.html Tue, 10 May 2011 14:16:59 +0000 Colombia’s airline industry is expanding at a rapid pace. International flights grew by almost a third last year and are on the increase again in 2011. But such rapid expansion comes at a cost: the country is running out of pilots.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/05/monocolumn-awards-show-recognises-the-new-faces-of-the-arab-world.html Mon, 09 May 2011 15:01:52 +0000 In a glitzy black-tie ceremony in Doha last week, Ricardo Karam, the Middle East’s answer to Piers Morgan, and the striking Al Jazeera anchor Laila Al Shaikhil, unveiled the winners of the second Takreem Awards: a lofty initiative that seeks to honour Arabs in various fields.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/05/monocolumn-changing-the-constitution-%e2%80%93-without-asking-first.html Fri, 06 May 2011 14:39:38 +0000 Hungary has a new constitution – but it could cause more problems than it solves on the diplomatic front.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/05/monocolumn-how-to-hide-%e2%80%93-a-lesson-from-bin-laden.html Wed, 04 May 2011 15:59:23 +0000 In a world in which anybody with a computer can peer into anyone else’s yard, the long-term fugitive feels like a throwback to an era of pigeon post and pith helmets. ]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/05/monocolumn-why-the-%e2%80%98war-on-terror%e2%80%99-lost-its-bite.html Tue, 03 May 2011 14:24:29 +0000 Almost exactly 20 years ago, an American president once ridiculed as a “wimp” stood triumphant, having vanquished a Middle Eastern villain. Two years later, he was out of a job.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/05/monocolumn-new-drama-looks-to-crack-the-us-%e2%80%98spanglish%e2%80%99-market.html Mon, 02 May 2011 14:20:08 +0000 Nothing is more quintessentially “Latin American” than telenovelas: those swoon-inducing, drama-filled, Spanish-language soap operas found everywhere from Patagonia to the Rio Grande.]]>