Author: johnhall

IVL, On Beauty

Imprint was lucky enough to have a visit with amazingly talented Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto while he was in Long Beach last week. We've posted about Sou's work here several times now, as he is one of the contributors for our Architecture For Dogs project as well as being one of the most talked-about architects...

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When Michelle Lou Lan's dancing career ended in 2006 due to a serious injury, that was just the beginning of the MeshYoga story. By combining her passion for dance with the tradition of yoga, Michelle developed her own unique but simple take on classical yoga. Her practice has taken her to great masters around the...

ICL, IVL, On Beauty

Happy Friday! Between our Imprint Presents Koichi Suzuno talk in Los Angeles, and launching our IVL FastPitch video, Imprint has had a busy few weeks recently. I've caught up on some design blogs in the meantime, and this trailer for the new Takashi Murakami feature-film caught my attention. Murakami's work has been shown in LA...

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Mel D. Cole, a native of Syracuse, NY, and self-proclaimed Bills fan, has turned his unique and remarkable access to music industry insiders into a powerhouse of a photography career, building an incredibly impressive portfolio of portraits, editorial, and travel photography in the process. The self-taught high school dropout points to his work as hip-hop...

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Imprint has produced a video which helps explain the Imprint Venture Lab FastPitch drive for 2014 - our effort to find more great people and ideas for IVL to consider for investment/partnership in. The video looks at IVL's portfolio to date and talks about the opportunity in working with passionate entrepreneurs in order to help...

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Imprint are very pleased to present a talk with Koichi Suzuno in Los Angeles on May 5th! Koichi is a talented architect, award-winning designer, and co-founder of Torafu Architects, an accomplished Tokyo-based firm. You can read about Torafu and view some of their critically-acclaimed work on their great site. While he's not quite as well...

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Some very inspiring content from Leica - for their second film in the Let Us Roam series, the well-respected German camera maker teamed up with SoCal-based pro skateboarder-turned-photographer Arto Saari. A Finnish transplant, Arto talks about discovering skateboarding as a youngster and what that meant for him athe time, he talks about some of the...

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John Pangilinan is something of a creative powerhouse - a one-man agency, even. Everything he's achieved professionally has been through following his serious passion for cars. He first made a name for himself in the automotive industry by customizing a BMW, which lead to a gig at a tuner shop, quickly immersing him in different...

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Imprint's New Year's Resolutions for 2014 included "exercise more," so I've been trying to take that to heart, with a lot of help from the Nike Fuelband SE. I'm not getting any younger, and I often struggle to incorporate enough exercise into my day while commuting by car. Something had to change, and I figured...

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We were thrilled to discover that the good people at tech news source Mashable recently included the Solar app from the IVL Hollr partnership on their recent "9 Super Simple Apps That Will Make Your Life Easier" article. It's yet another wonderful example of the recognition that Solar has earned for its ground-breaking approach to...