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Levi's Print Workshop In The Mission

Piers Fawkes | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mission District, Jeans, Paypal, Retail, Mission, Posure, Workshop, Go Forth, Plaza Adelante, Edible Schoolyard, Denim, Alice Waters, Levi's, Design, Southern E, Katz, Valencia Street, Psfk, San Francisco, Print Workshop, Marketing, Fashion, The Women's Building, Craig Newmark, Levi Strauss, Business News
Piers Fawkes

As part of their workwear promotion, jeans maker Levi's have started a series of workshop programs to engage the local communities. It's part of the c...

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PSFK Conference NYC: Ideas, Inspirations, Disruptions

Christine Huang | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rob Walker, Psfk, Significant Objects, Value, Conference, Grant Mccracken, Art, Street Art, Design, Innovation, Business, Business News
Christine Huang

On April 9, PSFK held its annual conference of fresh ideas and inspirations in New York City. The day-long event featured talks by innovative change...

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The Hottest Global Brands Of 2010: PSFK (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Nathaniel Cahners Hindman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Slidepollajax, Nike, Nintendo, Apple, Tiger Woods, Twitter, Brands, Facebook, Psfk, Google, Business News

In ranking it's "Good Brands of 2010", PSFK, a trends research and innovation company, said being a "good" brand in 2010 requires more than just "a wi...

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Piers Fawkes, Founder & CEO Of PSFK: An Interview

Huffington Post | David Weiner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New Yorkers on New York, Nyony, Piers Fawkes, Interview, Psfk New York, Psfk, New York News

Every now and then we at Huffington Post New York get a chance to speak to a truly notable, noteworthy, or just plain cool New Yorker. These are the ...

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Kellogg's to Laser Etch their Logo on Individual Corn Flakes

Piers Fawkes | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Branding, Psfk, Laser, Kellogg's, Brands, Generic Cereals, Breakfast Cereal, Cereal, Technology News
Piers Fawkes

Cereal maker Kellogg's is planning to laser etch its logo on individual Corn Flakes in an effort to set itself apart from imitations and generic brands.

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PSFK Talks to Dennis Crowley of foursquare

Piers Fawkes | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Foursquare, Dennis Crowley, Psfk, Api, Clay Shirky, Internet Startups, New York City, Trends, Software Startups, Sxsw, New York News
Piers Fawkes

Crowley argues that a location based service needs to evolve to understand a user contextually -- to tap into your calendar, for example, and understand if you have a hole in your schedule.

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Socially Networked Rescue Relief in Manila

Piers Fawkes | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Social Media, Philippines, Piers Fawkes, Manila, Filipinos, Psfk, Red Cross, Flood, Jason Tran, Google Maps, Facebook, World News
Piers Fawkes

Typhoon Ondoy was a tragedy. Hundreds have died in the Philippines. But without the rapid-response heroism of ordinary Filipino citizens enabled by technology, it could have been much worse.

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Urban Rustic: Neighborhood Grocery, Local Food

Piers Fawkes | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Urban Rustic, Food, Williamsburg, Psfk, Local Food, Locavore, Brooklyn, New York News
Piers Fawkes

Urban Rustic Locavore grocery shopping has come to Williamsburg with Urban Rustic, a food enthusiast's paradise, stocked only with products sourced fr...

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Digital Immortality and Death 2.0

Scott Lachut | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Death 2.0, Web 2.0, Psfk, Customs, Immortality, Virtual, Digital, Death, Real, Culture, Healthy Living News
Scott Lachut

Particularly in the case of social media, when taken together the multitude of eternal digital data forms a history of a person's life.

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Digital Textbooks for Your Online Education

Scott Lachut | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Digital Media, Education, Psfk, Media News
Scott Lachut

We've written about a variety of learning tools that have been popping up on the web in recent months from institutional examples like Academic Earth to iTunes University.

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Skipping the Issue: Ad Age's Jonah Bloom on the Evolution of Media

Piers Fawkes | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Media News, Advertising, Media, Psfk, Media News
Piers Fawkes

Advertising Age has pulled its March 16 issue. There has been a lot of talk about the decline of print media recently, so PSFK decided to find out more about what's going on internally.

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PSFK Talks to NOLA's Dirty Coast

Piers Fawkes | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Creativity, Design, New Orleans, Louisiana, Dirty Coast, Psfk, Business News
Piers Fawkes

This article originally appeared on PSFK.com. When PSFK found itself at the far end of Magazine Street in New Orleans, we visited one of the creative...

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Kids Learn Target Marketing from the FTC

Scott Ballum | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mall, Advertising, Children, Shopping, Ftc, Psfk, Business News
Scott Ballum

This article originally appeared on PSFK.com. Competition? Mergers? Supply and demand? Find our what's cooking at the Food Court. These are the kind...

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Free Store Opens In New York City

Dave Pinter | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Art, Psfk, Athena Robles, Manhattan, Anna Stein, Shopping, Boutique, Free, Gallery, Healthy Living News
Dave Pinter

The Free Store is a model of economic sustenance that we believe could be used (at least on a small scale) in cities worldwide.

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A New Way to Pay Online Content Creators

Dan Gould | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Online Content, Internet, Microdonations, Micropayment, Kachingle, Psfk, Business News
Dan Gould

Kachingle is a new service that looks like it could bridge the gap between scattered micropayments and free content.

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Brazil's Once Private Past Becomes Available on the Internet

Lourenço Bustani | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Disappearances, South America, Dictatorship, Brazil, Psfk, World News
Lourenço Bustani

Brazil's dictatorial government lasted for over two decades, from 1964 to 1985, and it still remains a cloaked part of the country's history. But now more than 13,000 pages of documents have been made available to the public.

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The Rise of Scifi TV

Christine Huang | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: True Blood, Television, Heroes, Science Fiction, Scifi, Battlestar Galactica, Psfk, Fantasy, Lost, Entertainment News
Christine Huang

Networks are now treating the once stigmatized scifi genre (and its followers) as the powerful, profitable force it has grown to be.

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