Author: johnhall

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Jan 19, 2015

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Shingo Annen, aka Shing02, is a talented musician and artist - he raps (in both English and Japanese, something of a rarity in of itself), produces beats, and he's also an accomplished visual artist. The hip-hop portion of his life began when he moved UC Berkeley in the fall of ’93, just when respected Cali...

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Jan 16, 2015

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Accomplished skate shoe designer Paul Kwon spoke at our Long Beach-centric ICL 2013 event, alongside fellow LB skate luminaries Chad Tim Tim, Justin Reynolds, and Ricki Bedenbaugh. Around that time, Martin Wong told me that Paul is also a talented musician. I've been lucky enough to bump into Paul a few times since, including at...

ICL

Jan 09, 2015

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A few weeks back, our friend John Pangilinan invited Julia Huang, Jeffstaple, Brandon Shigeta, and myself out of Camp Edison (our temporary Imprint/InterTrend DTLB office digs) for a quick photo portrait. He mentioned it was for something with LA-based clothing brand The Hundreds, and that it would be on display at the recent Agenda trade...

ICL

Jan 05, 2015

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Imprint's hometown of Long Beach is lucky enough to play host to 11-year strong world-class fashion trade show Agenda today and tomorrow! We hope to see you at the LB Convention Center (although we should be clear in pointing out it's not open to the public, sorry). Following Agenda on Instagram is a good way...

ICL, IVL

Dec 26, 2014

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Gifted photographer & architect Brandon Shigeta sent us even more great photos of the current Architecture for Dogs exhibition at the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa. This set includes stunning shots of the exhibition as well as some close-ups of the designs themselves. ...

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Dec 22, 2014

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I was lucky enough to catch up with Alyasha Owerka-Moore recently, and find out about his latest endeavor, North Manual Vocational. A previous Imprint speaker, Aly has incredibly deep roots in the clothing game, having worked at giants like Phat Farm, and Mecca, co-founding seminal street/skate/snow crossover Alphanumeric, all before the Internet-driven "streetwear" boom. He...

Editorial

Dec 19, 2014

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2014 has been another exciting year for Imprint, with some great new speakers, successful events, new partnerships, fresh learnings, expanded networks, and much more. Much like last year, I asked the Imprint team to each choose one highlight from 2014, thinking we'd send the year off by featuring some of the best moments here. So...

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Dec 12, 2014

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Last weekend, the latest Architecture for Dogs exhibition opened at the prestigious 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa. Project director Kenya Hara and Imprint's founder, Julia Huang, were on hand to participate in the opening event, and our talented friend Brandon Shigeta was also on hand to document everything in fine style. Stay tuned...

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Dec 08, 2014

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Sheldon Candis is a Baltimore native who currently calls LA home, since graduating from USC School of Cinematic Arts. He is a talented writer/director who has worked on many different types of videography: feature-length films, short films, music videos, documentaries, commercial work. He was nominated for an MTV VMA with his music video for the...

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Dec 05, 2014

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We have some big news from our Architecture For Dogs project this week - with the art exhibition returning to Japan for the next opening at the prestigious 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa tomorrow. Interestingly, one of the project's highly-accomplished contributing architects, Kazuyo Sejima of SANAA also designed the museum, with her partner...