Author: johnhall

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Dec 01, 2014

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I first met Amy Wong through her work for POW! WOW! Hawaii with husband Jasper Wong (interviewed). She has recently launched a great, fashion-forward apparel brand for kids' ages 2-10, inspired by streetwear, culture and the arts, called Big Bad Wolf. The brand was born of Amy's having a difficult time finding the fashion and...

Feed, On Beauty

Nov 21, 2014

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It's pretty amazing what you can do with cardboard packaging, when you think about it. Architecture for Dogs contributor (and 2014 Pritzker Prize winner to boot) Shigeru Ban builds entire buildings out of cardboard, using reinforced poster tubes, for example. Similarly, I think the packaging on the Wanmock Kit designed by Torafu Architects is a...

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Nov 14, 2014

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Here it is ladies and gents, the video from our Imprint Presents Koichi Suzuno talk back on Monday, May 5th, 2014. He's a co-founder of Torafu Architects, an accomplished Japanese firm which excels in many aspects of design, from architecture, to art installations, to product design. Torafu’s clients include the likes of Sony, TOTO, Freitag,...

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Nov 10, 2014

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Aaron De La Cruz is an accomplished San Francisco-based artist whose work we've been lucky enough to see quite a lot of here at Imprint. We were on hand at the Agenda trade show a couple of years ago to record Aaron painting the Flexfit Basecamp booth. (For the record, the first video I shot...

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Nov 07, 2014

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You may have heard about the current exhibition at Long Beach Museum of Art which opened recently, and includes incredible contributions from the likes of James Jean, Natalia Fabia, Mario Martinez, Greg Simkins, Esao Andrews, and many more highly accomplished artists. Each artist was asked to contribute one "Masterwork" considered to be pivotal in their...

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Oct 31, 2014

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Jerry Hsiao and I are (apparently) on a mission to keep everyone posted about the quickly developing dystopian reality of a world chock full of affordable commercial drones. It's been several months since we blogged about the latest in drone tech. Between the evolving product landscape and the ongoing military reliance on them, drones have...

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Oct 27, 2014

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Philip Lumbang is an accomplished young artist, based in Los Angeles. When we first met about a decade ago, Phil was art assistant to American stencil master Shepard Fairey (of OBEY fame) and also interning at a mutual friend's clothing label. It's been amazing to watch Phil's progression and growth as an artist: developing his...

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Oct 24, 2014

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If you take your travel as seriously as our most recent Imprint Presents speaker Jan Chipchase does, you'll appreciate the D3 Traveller, a truly world-class travel bag he's carefully designed over the last few years. Jan worked with a dedicated team of early adopters and beta testers to prototype and fine tune this impressive design....

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Oct 17, 2014

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Last year, Imprint's founder, Julia Huang, spoke about our Architecture for Dogs project at the first Purina Better with Pets conference in New York City. You can revisit our posts about that event here and here. I was lucky enough to attend this year's Better with Pets summit earlier this week, at the impressive Skylight...

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Oct 10, 2014

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You might have picked up on the fact that we're pretty huge fans of POW! WOW! I was fortunate enough to attend the Hawaiian artist summit back in 2013. Our very own founder Julia Huang checked out POW! WOW! Taiwan more recently, which we posted about here. And you might have noticed we worked with...