http://www.psfk.com Your Go-To Source For New Ideas And Inspiration Wed, 15 Feb 2012 18:09:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.psfk.com/2009/09/the-cat-piano-award-winning-animation-from-australia.html Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:00:43 +0000 The Cat Piano is the latest animated film from Australian studio The People's Republic of Animation. It's won the Best Animated Short category in both the Sydney Film Festival and Melbourne International Film Festival.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/09/sydney-international-food-festival-ad-campaign.html Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:23:38 +0000 Sydney's International Food Festival kicks off in October 2009. To raise public awareness of the event, Whybin TBWA have recreated the flags of twelve countries using ingredients from their national dishes. Check out a gallery below.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/09/the-5-feed-wrigleys-branded-creativity-aggregator.html Fri, 11 Sep 2009 16:21:07 +0000 Hobo Gestapo, Isobel Knowles, Aeons, Crozynski, and Lilian Darmono are just some of the Australian artists, musicians and designers commissioned by a gum brand to create engaging digital content.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/09/melbournes-street-art-evolution-crate-man.html Fri, 11 Sep 2009 14:19:00 +0000 'Crate Man' is another great example of Melbourne's diverse street art scene. Constructed from vibrantly painted milk crates, the huge figures have been found scaling fences, hanging off cranes, perched on rooftops and even fishing in a creek.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/08/graphic-design-to-save-the-world.html Mon, 24 Aug 2009 07:05:07 +0000 Image credit: Getty Images, Julie A. Ziesemann/Flickr The Australian Graphic Design Association’s conference ‘How Can Graphic Design Help Save the World’ recently shed some light on the ways graphic designers can design a better world.  Speakers included Visual Communication Design lecturer Jacqueline Gothe, Animal Logic founder Andy Polaine, graphic and environmental designer David Berman; and design, media and visual culture writer Rick Poynor. Andy Polaine explains the meaning behind the conference title: “Most wicked problems stem from many small acts of thoughtlessness ” says Andy. “At home in Germany, I did the right thing and took my old TV toRead more...]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/08/pics-public-toilet-gets-covered-by-guerrilla-knitter.html Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:15:20 +0000 Last year PSFK wrote about Knitta Please – the worldwide guerrilla knitting collective who wrap and detail urban-based objects in bright yarns.  Sydney-based suburb of Darlinghurst recently received some of their own knitted magic from the hands of Newtown knitter Denise Litchfield.  Wrapping Sydney’s oldest functional underground “heritage toilet” in Taylor Square, Litchfield started planning the project back in May 2009.  Read more about it at The Knitted Convenience. [via Darlinghurst Nights]]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/08/bio-accessories-of-the-urban-weary.html Mon, 10 Aug 2009 16:52:47 +0000 Industrial designer Ben Landau and felt / soft sculpture artist Brittany Veitch have created a range of wearable living couture accessories to bring elements of nature into urban living.  Each Bio Accessory has a living component of which the wearer must tend to, whilst the accessory works to block the unappealing aspects of urban living; masking sounds, sights and scents with a little greenery, bird calls and fresh air.  According to the Australian design duo the accessories represent ‘mobile natural environments’ designed to be the perfect symbiotic relationship.  Bio-Accessories is currently exhibiting at the Melbourne City Library till August 30,Read more...]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/07/melbourne-open-house-project.html Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:03:31 +0000 Last Sunday Melbourne residents were offered the unique opportunity to view some of the city’s most interesting buildings, normally off limits to the public.  In total thirty buildings opened their doors to the public for Melbourne Open House , with the Melbourne Unity building, Town Hall and Offices attracting a 4660-strong crowd of onlookers interested in the city’s history and architecture. See a gallery of images from the tour below. Melbourne Open House]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/07/condor-tower-car-park-largest-street-art-exhibition-in-the-southern-hemisphere.html Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:13:42 +0000 In January this year PSFK wrote about Perth’s street art group Ololo and their Condor Tower Carpark Project.  This Saturday Ololo will launch their project,  with many claiming the car park is the largest permanent street art exhibition in the southern hemisphere.  Taking twelve months to complete, Ololo was initially asked to brighten up the entrance, but the project soon grew with the group covering the entire car park, from the pillars, ramps and walls, right down to the smallest wedges and gaps.  Around fifty local and national artists contributed, including Stormie Mills, Reka One, Creepy, Yok, Pat Doherty, Daek,Read more...]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/07/innovative-ideas-to-boost-melbournes-retail-market.html Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:36:52 +0000 PSFK recently wrote about Monocle's Top 25 Most Liveable Cities 2009. Even though Melbourne made it into the top 10, Michael from linefeed has some innovative store concepts to boost the city's retail sector. Believing that the city lacks quirky, niche stores Michael states; When I think of [...] ]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/07/creative-caravan-the-craigslist-for-creatives.html Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:30:05 +0000 Touted as the 'Craigslist' for creatives, Creative Caravan is an online house swap / temporary sublet listing service strictly for those working within the areas of advertising, media, fashion, art and design.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/07/nollywood-at-the-australian-center-for-photography.html Mon, 06 Jul 2009 14:14:31 +0000 The Nigerian film industry, a.k.a. Nollywood is the new subject of an exhibition at Sydney’s Australian Center for Photography.  Producing between five hundred to one thousand films a year, Nollywood is the third biggest film industry to date.  Despite often being ”low budget, violent and excessive”, Nollywood films outsell Hollywood films on the African market. Working alongside well-known Nigerian actors, South-African photographer Pieter Hugo has recreated typical scenes that reflect the little-known-about Nollywood industry. The exhibition runs from Friday 12 June to Saturday 11 July at 257 Oxford St, Paddington, Sydney Related Post: Nollywood Babylon: Rise of the Nigerian Film Industry]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/06/australian-band-launches-beer.html Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:42:39 +0000 PSFK recently wrote about the crowd-sourced-design of Australian beer ‘Nelson’.  The Melbourne-based micro brewery has recently teamed up with local Indie band The Temper Trap to design a limited-edition label for the brew.  The now London-based band collaborated alongside graphic artist Reece Hobbins to visually represent their unique sound. Mess and Noise explains: a white silhouetted human profile, which symbolises the mind as the “hub of emotion” and the human “condition” (a reference to their debut album Conditions, out tomorrow). The maze leading up the neck represents the obscurity of the Nelson beer project, as well as a sense ofRead more...]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/06/rising-online-volunteer-network-from-down-under.html Thu, 11 Jun 2009 14:12:06 +0000 Seek, an Australian online job search firm, is finding social opportunities in this economic crisis. The company, with the help of The Boston Consulting Group, is using its technology platform to match volunteer do-gooders with non-profit organizations all over the country. Australia already has a long-established history of corporations participating in community causes but the recent scarcity of jobs, the persistent drought and the tragic bushfires that erupted earlier this year is increasing national demand to reach out. Seek Volunteer – which claims to earn no revenues for its services – seems to have come at just the right timeRead more...]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/06/codas-revamped-horse-farm.html Thu, 04 Jun 2009 13:16:35 +0000 Architecture firm CODA has produced an interesting take on an old idea.  The West-Australian-based firm designed the redevelopment of an old horse farm for a local drug and alcohol rehabilitation center.  Created to aid recovering patients the farm will house and rehabilitate abused horses.  CODA used recycled materials for the project and chose colours that would be “both uplifting and soothing for residents.” CODA explains: We sought to reuse as many of the materials as we could from the farm itself and develop a construction system that could be executed by many enthusiastic but largely untrained ‘builders’. The total budgetRead more...]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/05/melbourne-studio-round-wins-for-walk-talk-and-chalk.html Fri, 29 May 2009 13:19:21 +0000 Multi-disciplinary design studio Round have won the Invitation category at the Museums Australia Multimedia and Publication Design Awards. The Melbourne-based studio won the coveted prize for their Walk, Talk and Chalk catalogue.  The catalogue was created for a City of Melbourne exhibition which covered the city’s history of parking enforcement.  Walk, Talk and Chalk is the most highly-attended exhibition the City Gallery has held to date.  Round also received a high commendation for their Urban Arboreal invitation. [via Grafikcache]]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/05/australias-craft-resurgence-cont.html Fri, 29 May 2009 13:03:07 +0000 A while ago PSFK wrote about Melbourne’s recent rebirth of craft via the Craft Cartel.  The Sydney Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef project is another such example that craft is back.  The collaborative installation is run by the Stitches collective and the Institute For Figuring as a “testimony to the disappearing wonders of the modern world.” The project draws on a hyperbolic crochet technique originally developed in 1997, by Cornell mathematician Dr Daina Taimina. The IFF explains the technique: In 1997 Dr Taimina discovered how to make models of the geometry known as “hyperbolic space” using the art of crochet. UntilRead more...]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/05/time-bomb-interactive-graffiti-in-sydney.html Wed, 27 May 2009 14:21:23 +0000 Created by digital artist Lukasz Karluk, aka Holler and Sydney sculptor/painter Maddi Boyd (KissKiss), TimeBomb is an impressive marriage of street art and digital programing.  Held within Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art, TimeBomb will see nine street / studio artists paint the space, one after the other, all documented by time-lapse photography.  The finished product will be two pieces; one the painted wall, the other an interactive projection, allowing viewers to reveal different layers of the wall via physical movement. Karluk on the technical apects of the project; The TimeBomb application is based on memo’s fluid dynamics library for openframeworks,Read more...]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/05/disco-brows-at-australian-fashion-week.html Wed, 06 May 2009 12:34:18 +0000 Australian fashion label The Cassette Society took the long-standing beauty trend of full, thick eyebrows one step further and sent their models down the runway with gemstone-lined ‘Disco Brows’.  Seen at the 2009 Australian Fashion Week. [via Lost at E Minor]]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/05/on-a-street-in-darlinghurst-sydney.html Tue, 05 May 2009 14:52:28 +0000 Mysterious alterations to existing Council street-signage have started to appear in Sydney’s inner-eastern suburb of Darlinghurst. No one knows exactly who’s responsible for this street art, or what it means. Ideas? From Oswald Lane to where]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/05/contemporary-take-on-traditional-mexican-crafts.html Mon, 04 May 2009 14:20:56 +0000 Tony Moxham and Mauricio Paniagua are the creative heads behind DFCasa, a Mexican-based design studio reworking the traditional styles and techniques of Mexican crafts into contemporary home furnishings.  Moxham, an Australian art director / journalist, and Guatemalan painter Paniagua first met whilst living in New York.  Working with local Mexican artisans, DFCasa creates products from a range of materials including aluminium, hand-blown glass, traditionally-cast ceramics, silver and fur. The sculptures pictured above were inspired by the traditional hand-applied beading of the Huichol, an indigenous ethnic group of western central Mexico. [via Lost at E Minor]]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/04/australian-childhood-foundation-ad-campaign.html Thu, 30 Apr 2009 14:15:02 +0000 A bold ad campaign by Ausie advertising company JWT for the Australian Childhood Foundation.  Designed for their ongoing Stop Child Abuse Now initiative, the street campaign seeks to draw attention to child abuse which often goes on unseen.  Featuring life-sized child mannequins half-covered by billposters, the advertisements were placed in high-traffic areas, reading,  “Neglected Children are made to feel invisible.”  After some time the mannequins were ‘torn out’ and removed, making the text, “Thank you for seeing me” visible. [via osocio]]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/04/craft-resurgence-melbournes-craft-cartel.html Thu, 23 Apr 2009 15:35:39 +0000 Craft Cartel is a Melbourne-based craft collective for “crafty types who don’t dig rose scented doilies”.  Celebrating all that is irreverent, ironic, kitschy, delightfully offensive and made lovingly by hand, Craft Cartel supports craft creatives who would normally sit outside the retail space by using avant-garde techniques and recycled materials, whilst dealing with subject matter that doesn’t quite fit the ‘craft’ mold. Craft Cartel is constantly working to promote a new image of ‘craft’ – interesting hand made objects rather than “mass produced plastic crap.” They proclaim: “We do not subscribe to art wank and we are prone to ridiculingRead more...]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/04/melbournes-big-mouth-project.html Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:28:30 +0000 A collaboration between WorkSafe Victoria and local creatives, the Big Mouth Project is designed to get people talking within the workplace to prevent injury.  With workers aged 15 – 24 at the highest risk of work-related accidents, the state workplace safety system has rallied together local and international artists, writers, animators, web designers, model makers and photographers to spread the word on workplace safety.  World-renowned typographer Luke Lucas is behind the initiative’s logo and UK street artist D*Face has also pledged his support, unveiling his ‘Loudhailer’ sculpture outside St Kilda’s Luna Park, urging people to “speak up in the workplace”.Read more...]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/04/the-letterbox-house.html Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:44:18 +0000 Created by Australian architects McBride Charles Ryan, The Letterbox House is a new take on the Aussie beach house.  Located in Melbourne’s Mornington Peninsula, the design begins as a letterbox and opens up to a 290sqm, four bedroom house.  Inspired by the large scale of the peninsula and the ‘openness’ of a typical Australian beach-side community, architects Rob McBride and Debbie-Lyn Ryan used irregular lines to unfold the huge veranda, giving the design an airy, “half-space” feel, half enclosed, half open; making the front door almost unneccessary. [via Arch Daily and the cool hunter]]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/04/hbos-true-blood-ad-campaign.html Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:34:40 +0000 Innovative ad campaign to mark the upcoming season launch of HBO’s True Blood in New Zealand. [via We Heart Stuff]]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/04/bank-notes.html Tue, 21 Apr 2009 14:55:17 +0000 Love Is My Velocity Cookbook is a collection of recipe cards featuring the culinary fare of 52 Perth bands and 60 accompanying artworks. Before launching their second Cookbook on May 8 at the Hellenic Centre, local production company Love Is My Velocity are teaming up with the West Australian Music Industry (WAM) to organise a pop-up recording studio.  Producing downloadable tracks recorded in an old Bank, Bank Notes sees ten local bands producing “fast, rough, and immediately distributable tracks” engineered by veteran Perth soundman Laurie Sinagra. The one-take sessions will house a mix of styles; the poppy Boys Boys Boys!,Read more...]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/04/patricia-piccininis-automotive-sculptures.html Mon, 20 Apr 2009 18:22:34 +0000 Australian artist Patricia Piccinini deals with artificial intelligence and the idea of artificial emotion with her genetic engine sculptures. The visual artist has created three different sculptures – ‘The Stags’, ‘Nest’ and ‘Thicker than Water’, each work attempting to bring technology into new light and raise the question: ‘what will become of out technological creations?’ The artist explains: I’ve imagined these machines that haven’t been domesticated by humans. All my work is concerned with the definition of how what we consider artificial and natural is changing – the role that technology plays in our contemporary imagination. ‘Nest’, ‘The Stags’ andRead more...]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/04/video-keith-loutit-envisioning-life-in-miniature.html Thu, 16 Apr 2009 14:48:28 +0000 Sydney-based photographer Ken Loutit puts an extraordinary spin on the rather mundane events in life utilizing a variety of techniques and angles to capture the everyday in miniature. The process, called tilt-shift, refers to the movement of the camera – small or medium format – relative to the image being photographed, resulting in a bird’s eye perspective that re-imagines the commonplace. Loutit takes a series of stills and stitches them together to create short films that invite the viewer to take a second look at the world around us. The video below depicts the parade route during this year’s MardiRead more...]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/04/renew-newcastle.html Wed, 15 Apr 2009 16:51:10 +0000 Renew Newcastle is a new initiative which makes use of vacant or abandoned buildings within the Newcastle Central Business District in Southeastern Australia.  Headed by Marcus Westbury, a writer, broadcaster, festival director, media maker and Newcastle local, the not-for-profit company connects artists, cultural projects and community groups with vacant spaces in an attempt to temporarily make use of and maintain these buildings, whilst supporting the creative community. While the long term prospects for the redevelopment of Newcastle’s CBD are good, in the meantime many sites are boarded up, falling apart, vandalised or decaying because they are is no short termRead more...]]>