PSFK ideas hunt

Another blog that I contribute to PSFK is on the hunt for some great ideas:'Need funding to help your idea become other folk's inspiration? Two Fortune 100 companies (in beverages and health & beauty respectively) want to meet people with superb ideas in early October to help bring your ideas to life.PSFK has been asked to help find 25 clever persons to attend a round of 'speed-investing' in

Just For Kicks

News from Crooked Tongues:'Just For Kicks is the first film of its kind to present the underlying drivers and players that fuelled the global sneakers revolution and its $26 Billion global market. Far from a formal history of the sneaker industry, Just For Kicks offers a fun and colorful insider's history of hip hop's most treasured fashion item; revealing behind the scene stories with exclusive

Wee House

The trend for sustainable, affordable and desirable houses has been knocking about for some time. From the floating houses of Berlin, to the nooks and crannies housing of Hamburg. However, one of the most interesting pre-fab builds has been created by Alchemy Architects and is now being used by Marriott Hotels to promote their new room designs. The Wee House is beautifully simple and is modular

Le Parkour

The coolest sport in the world (except football) has had a mini film made of it and it's awesome. For more information on Le Parkour check out its official site here.Tags: parkour

Personality Brands

The history of brands has been littered with various ways of making them more personal and creating an empathy between brand and consumer. Of late, brands seem to be creating more and more products that have very obvious personalities. From Peugeot and the fly swatting to the Puma ads that place their shoes in with the animals you are made to feel like the product has its very own personality and

Burton Store NYC

Josh Rubin has an interesting post on his Coolhunting blog. The snowboard and apparel company Burton has opened a store in New York's Soho but in order to give you the full experience of using their apparel they have built in a freezer. 'the store includes the full range of products from each of the Burton brands: Red, Anon, Analog, Gravis and of course Burton. The highlight is their 20 degree

Maharishi Skate Boards

Protein seem to have a little bit of an exclusive on the new Maharishi boards. They feature the DPM Series 1 camouflage patterns.'Each pattern contains references to the natural world in line with the theory set out in the 944-page camo encyclopaedia DPM Disruptive Pattern Material. The book, also available from dpmhi, emphasises camouflage's natural roots and artistic influences over its

The Brilliance

The Brilliance is a great US blog that looks at pretty much everything that crops up in the lives of Chuck and Benjamin, two artists.This is how they describe themselves: 'THE BRILLIANCE exists to serve as a resource for people of all interests around the world. When we launched in the spring of 2005, we started out with interviews from the likes of photographer Kareem Black,

PSP Fashion Event

Sony have organised Pret-a-PSP, a fashion show to promote the latest accessories for the PSP from the likes of Fendi, Calvin Klein, Tommy Hilfiger and Anna Sui. This is yet another example of the ever narrowing gap between technology and fashion. With fashion trying to grab hold of the new opportunities that mass technologies such as the PSP and iPod represent, whilst the tech companies piggy

iPod Nano

No real surprises with the Apple announcements today and certainly nothing revolutionary which was a bit disappointing. Apple announced the iTunes phone to no-one's surprise, they did however introduce the rather more exciting iPod Nano. This will replace the Mini and carries a 1.5 inch colour display, with 2gb and 4gb hard drives available.Tags: Design, iPod

Trainers vs Sneakers

Flickr has been getting a reputation as a great trend tracking tool. So inspired by the PSFK cool hunt of a few months back I thought I'd have a quick look at what patterns are emerging in the UK vs the US. Now this isn't the most scientific way of researching but it acts as a pretty good guide as to what is going on amongst the Flickr demographic. By typing in 'sneakers' to the Flickr search

Nike ID Experience

I've just had my first full Nike ID experience from start to finish and it feels good! Back at the beginning of August I reported on a cool new Nike product that was to be released in September, the Nike Hammer watch, so I immediately began looking for this good looking piece of kit. My first port of call was obviously the Nike website and then the Nike ID site where, lo and behold, was the