After publishing their retail analysis last month, PSFK now releases its latest ‘Future Of’ report featuring trends and concepts that live at the intersection of health and technology.
In the first half of the Future of Health Report, PSFK provides an analysis of the trends impacting healthcare around the world. They explore this future from the perspective of organizations, patients, healthcare providers and communities. They also highlight how technology and access to information play a vital role in the ways that people understand, manage and receive care. The trends identified within this document and the examples used to bring them to life are inspired by innovation from around the globe. (more…)
The Wall Street Journal did a very interesting article on the relationship between language and culture, and how we think. This is something I often thinking about when traveling. Often you find that foreigners can speak their native language and English, while in American most American ONLY speak English. Does that make us inconsiderate to other cultures? Of course not, it’s a matter of education and the desire to learn.
At the expense of oversimplifying, PSFK pulled some of the key observations. View them after the jump (more…)
Now that all is said and done with Johannesburg World Cup fever, let’s not turn our faces away from Africa. Nike wants to remind people about an even bigger goal: the continuing need for AIDS education and medication in Africa. Its new spot promoting its partnership with (RED) aims to stir up soccer fans by featuring stars such as Didier Drogba.
The campaign extension comes with a Twitter-based interactive element: tagged tweets will be added to the “Join the Movement”map of Africa that’s made up of red shoelaces — which Nike is selling under Nike(RED) and donating the proceeds to the Global Fund.
Nike’s Twitter tags echo its “Write the Future”World Cup campaign: “Lace Up, Save Lives” for its red shoelace campaign uses the Twitter hashtag of #laceupsavelives — and You’ve seen the future. Now write it. Join the fight. uses#EndAIDS
Billabong’s 4th annual Design For Humanity benefit, to be held on Thursday, June 10th, 2010, is heading to a new location set in the heart of legendary NY streets on the back lot of Paramount Studios in Hollywood. This massive fashion-music-art block party will feature two concert stages, DJ dance parties, a runway fashion show showcasing one of a kind Billabong bikinis, a custom art gallery in partnership with The Carmichael Gallery, live art installations, Hit+Run live t-shirt screen printing, food trucks, a VIP street, and much more. (more…)
“Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.”
An old and wise Chinese proverb describes the premise behind YouthBank, an organization that our documentary team is following over the course of this year. YouthBank is a social enterprise start-up whose mission is to take kids off the street in developing countries and make them financially independent. Lily Liu is an entrepreneur and filmmaker, and the YouthBank team is one of the most interesting start-ups she has ever encountered. Led by a Canadian, the team consists of young people from across the world, with the majority of them residing in the US. Through a unique partnership between local residents in Lagos, Nigeria, the group launched their first program with 6 street-youth in August 2009.
48th Floor Films are trying to capture the stories of these youth as they progress through the program, and really see how their lives are changing as a result of it. These youth were coming from a past of an extremely unpredictable nature, to a potential future where they are not only business owners, but they are successful employers of other Nigerians.
Haiti. The name alone conjures heartbreaking images of death and despair, love and loss, struggle and survival. And the response, the outpouring of aid from all corners of the globe, shows humanity at its finest. No matter what your race or religion, beliefs or background, politics or passions, we are all one blood.
For many, the stories are overwhelming, leaving us unable to respond. What is appropriate in the face of such devastation, and how can we-as New Yorkers, as people from all walks of life-unite and give in some meaningful way to those who have lost so much?
Husband and wife team Sacha Jenkins and Raquel Cepeda have organized an exhibition and silent auction to celebrate the art and artistry of the Haiti by giving of world in which we live. On Sunday, March 7, 2010, Anonymous Gallery @ Collective Hardware, SCOPE Art Show, {He}Art For Haiti and Colab Projects join forces to present N’AP BOULE: A BENEFIT FOR THE PEOPLE OF HAITI as part of The Armory Show weekend. All proceeds will go to Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders).
Artist in Attendance: Barry McGee, Shepard Fairey, Crash, Lee Quinones, Dondi White, Tauba Auerbach, Swoon, Futura, Jose Parla, Todd James, Eric Haze, David Ellis, Doze Green, Faile, Bast, Greg Lamarche, Kostas Seremetis, Rostarr, Chris Mendoza, Yuri Shimojo, Kenji Hirata, Cope2, Indie 184, Erik Foss, Henry Chalfant, Dan Witz, Ricky Powell, Shelter Serra, Eric White, Jamel Shabazz, Michael Holman, Eve Sussman, Joseph Ari Aloi, Kenzo Minami, Daze, Aaron Sharp Goodstone, Taylor McKimens, and more!
New Orleans rap mogul P. Miller is hopeful The Saints’ victory over The Colts in Super Bowl XLIV will help the city overcome the devastation inflicted by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. The city is celebrating their first Super Bowl victory in history, Mardi Gras and for some, the election of a new mayor, Mitch Landrieu, the city’s first white mayor since 1979. “The Saints winning the Super Bowl was more than a game for the people in New Orleans; it gave hope to a ‘Who Dat’ Nation and other nations that are dealing with tragedy,” Miller told AllHipHop.com in a statement. “I realize that even as we celebrate this victory, not too far away kids and their families are still dealing with tragedies. And we as people should team up and help.” And Miller is putting his money up to make a difference as well. The mogul is in the process of building a school in Haiti to help the impoverished nation recover from a massive 7.0 earthquake in January.
Many of us care about how we look when we step out in the public, however many of haven’t considered where the clothes on our back come from an what the ‘true cost’ of fashion really is. Blood, Sweat and T-Shirt follows a group of British teens as they travel to India to find out.
The group follows the entire supply chain, pitching in at every stage of production. “Discipline is strict and rules cannot be broken; getting up without permission or talking to your friends is strictly forbidden. Targets and quotas must be met and those that do not make the grade get demoted from stitching to lower-status, less well-paid jobs, such as ironing and buttoning.”
During their time working at the factory, they come to understand that the cheap price on the rack represents real sacrifices for people and the environment half-way around the world.
In this first of four programs, the Brits also have to live in their fellow workers’ homes, in cramped conditions without basic facilities like hot water and western toilets. Clothes have never been cheaper and three-quarters of our clothing are now made abroad; for the first time we get to see how our clothes are really made.
To support the work of schools in Haiti through Artists for Peace & Justice, Shepard Fairey will be selling a signed limited edition print he has developed with Cleon Peterson and Casey Ryder. Sales start February 6th at obeygiant.com.To support the work of schools in Haiti Shepard Fairey will be selling a signed limited edition print he has developed.
Gordon Hempton is an audio ecologist who studies the world’s diminishing quiet spaces. He claims that truly silent areas (free from mechanical noise), are few and far between in today’s world.
Newsweek reports:
And silence, Hempton believes, is rapidly disappearing, even in the most remote places. He says there are fewer than a dozen places of silence-areas “where natural silence reigns over many square miles”-remaining in America, and none in Europe. In his book, One Square Inch of Silence: One Man’s Search for Natural Silence in a Noisy World, written with John Grossman, Hempton argues that silence-a precious, underrated commodity-is facing extinction.
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In 1983 he found 21 places in Washington state with noise-free intervals of 15 minutes or more. By 2007 there were three. (One of them is Olympic National Park, which he is trying to save, and he will not reveal the names of the others, arguing that they are protected by their anonymity.) Whom can we blame? People, and planes. Hempton claims that, during daytime, the average noise-free interval in wilderness areas has shrunk to less than five minutes. Think of the snowmobiles roaring through Yellowstone, helicopters flying over Hawaii volcanoes, and air tours over the Grand Canyon. It is air traffic that Hempton seems to resent the most: in his book, he travels across the United States in a 1964 VW bus, recording sound as he goes, from Washington state to Washington, D.C., where he meets with politicians and officials to press his case for the preservation of natural silence.
