This past January PSFK held 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. The last panel of the day focused on Good Ideas Through Collaboration, where Colin Nagy (PSFK / Attention) moderated a talk between Pat Connor (BBC), Jeremy Ettinghausen (Penguin), Sophie Howarth (The School of Life), and Simon Waldman (The Guardian).
While the idea of collaboration is nothing new, the way we use it are still being developed and reinterpreted. Jeremy Ettinghausen noted that collaboration is relatively new in relation [...]

This past January, PSFK hosted the Good Ideas Salon London. For our Good Ideas in Design session, long time PSFK contributor Amanda Gore led an eclectic panel, including Cameron Leslie, founder of the Fabric and Matter nightclubs, Coralie Bickford-Smith, designer of amazing book covers for Penguin books, Kate Moross, creative extraordinaire, and Nicolas Roope, founder of Poke and Hulger in a conversation on how design can-and must- weave a story between an audience and a product, service, and brand.
The panel spoke quite extensively about the creative process and there seemed to be a general consensus amongst the panelist that playfulness [...]

Bookcamp is a user-generated conference aimed at stimulating discussion about the future of books and is being sponsored by Penguin UK. The role of books as a mechanism for information and entertainment means that successful publishers will have to adapt to future technologies.  Penguin has already established a project called Penguin 2.0 with the slogan, “What’s next in text.”  The Bookcamp is intended to self-select guests and agendas while potentially stimulating new book innovations.  Penguin is already excited to see what they will discuss and current articles on the website include, “Creating Future Readers,” “Building Communities” and “Book Design for [...]