Author: johnhall

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Feb 11, 2013

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I'm reasonably sure that anyone who keeps up with Benjamin Meadows-Ingram feels like an underachiever almost all of the time. We happened to attend a few classes together in college, and even at that time, he was holding down cover stories for nationwide music publications. Which helps explain how he became a Contributing Editor at...

Editorial

Feb 08, 2013

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Our very own Julia Huang, Imprint founder, and CEO of our wonderful big sister company interTrend Communications, recently wrote an interesting article for USA TODAY. The article, called "Lunar New Year festivities impact world economy: Column" looks at how the week-long Lunar New Year celebrations constitute the most significant holiday in the world, even though...

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Feb 01, 2013

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Everyone knows that Facebook was founded while young Zuckerberg and his roommates were in still in college. It's really impressive to think that even students can disrupt the universe so amazingly well. But the start-up as a college hobby isn't limited to Facebook by any means. Did you know WordPress were too? As were Yahoo!,...

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Jan 28, 2013

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I got to meet SLVDR founder and creative director Rob Myers several years ago. They'd recently launched the brand, and thanks to the SLVDR team's solid background in technical snow gear, they were already off to a great start, creating their own subtle, yet innovative variations on classic men's pieces, sparing no attention to detail....

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Jan 25, 2013

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Patrick Moore first created FLY SOLO as his MFA thesis in the Design Research and Development program at The Ohio State University in Columbus. The idea is to help graphic designers become entrepreneurs. That's not unlike some of what we do here at Imprint, come to think of it! More specifically, FLY SOLO is a...

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Jan 21, 2013

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At the close of last year, the Imprint team, along with our friends at sister companies interTrend Communications and Rezonate Media, got to watch the fascinating documentary Ai Wei Wei: Never Scared, which tells the compelling story of this interesting independent thinker, as well explaining some of the context behind his art. He has previously...

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Jan 14, 2013

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Jamie Strong has played key roles at some of the best indie record labels in the country, for well over a decade now. With five years at Ubiquity Records, followed by five more at LA's own Stones Throw Records, Jamie was in the perfect place to co-found Innovative Leisure, a new LA-based label. 2013 promises...

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Jan 10, 2013

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Ego trip is an influential media/news/publishing organization, waving the flag for "The Arrogant Voice of Musical Truth.™ Since 1994." The ego trip magazine lasted for four years, was 13 issues deep, and the set the bar for originality, irreverence, quality writing, and good design, in contemporary music rags. After the magazine closed, the ego trip...

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Jan 07, 2013

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Frederick Guerrero's family has been rooted in the Glassell Park area of Los Angeles since the 1950s. His father emigrated from the Philippines and worked in the food industry for 35 years, gaining valuable experience in every aspect of the game. Fred has been working for the family business since 2003. At the moment, that...

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Jan 04, 2013

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Today we're very pleased to be visiting one of the country's premier fashion trade shows, The Agenda Show, right here on our Long Beach doorstep, at the Long Beach Convention center. The bi-annual, bi-coastal trade show features some of the top clothing labels from around the country and the world, and also attracts a decent...