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Feed, On Beauty

Feb 21, 2014

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Here's one of the first videos to come out of this year's Pow! Wow! artist summit in Hawaii, which we attended last year, and have blogged about several times now. The videography team employed a nice RC helicopter rig, which is perfect for catching sweeping shots of the giant walls popping up around the Kaka'ako...

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Feb 14, 2014

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We've been keeping our eye on the impressive work of Architecture For Dogs contributing architects, Torafu Architects. The Tokyo-based firm was founded in 2004 by Koichi Suzuno and Shinya Kamuro and they actually produce an incredibly wide range of design work including architectural design, interior design, graphic design, art installations, film making and product design...

Feed, On Beauty, Uncategorized

Oct 17, 2013

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What do you get when you combine projection mapping and moving surfaces? One complete mindf*ck coming right on up! This is one of those things that you need to be completely high for in order to fully enjoy the experience, much like you do when watching Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas every holiday season. Just...

On Beauty

Oct 11, 2013

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A couple of weeks ago, the Imprint team visited our friends (and business partners) Knockaround in their lovely new HQ in San Diego. It's really impressive to see, in-person, exactly how much this amazing brand has grown in the last few years. The offices are lovely and the warehouse is gigantic. Knockaround founder Adam "Ace"...

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Sep 13, 2013

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Thanks, in part, to our Architecture for Dogs project (in conjunction with design guru Kenya Hara) we've been paying extra-special close attention to Japanese architecture lately. And with our big sister company interTrend preparing to move into their newly renovated Psychic Temple digs in downtown LB, we've got office design on the brain lately too!...

ICL, On Beauty

Aug 30, 2013

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Here's a great example of how a corporate brand can team up with talented creatives and everyone wins. Warsteiner, a German brewery, recently teamed up with 6 great artists to produce some very nice-looking bottles, and the artists congregated in Berlin to join forces on an art show and public mural too. I got to...

Feed, On Beauty

Aug 23, 2013

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Late last year, I posted an Alan Watts video about the importance of making money versus following your heart on this site. Similarly, this new video "What it is to See" has been doing the rounds on design blogs and the likes. Take some good audio from an Alan Watts lecture, throw in some very...

Humbled, On Beauty, Uncategorized

Aug 22, 2013

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Hank bought a bus. As an architecture student at the University of Minnesota and preparing for his final thesis project, he impulsively purchased a $3,000 bus and converted it into one epic mobile home pictured below. Completely retrofitted and re-designed to accommodate up to six people, it includes tables, couches, beds, a sink, a skylight,...

Editorial, On Beauty

Aug 20, 2013

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This weekend I took my family to catch the last weekend of Gary Baseman's exhibit at the Skirball Cultural Center. Because the Los Angeles-based artist's style appears so effortless and playful, he is subject to being dismissed as an illustrator, entertainer, and crowd pleaser. The massive success of the board game Cranium (which features his...

Editorial, Information, On Beauty

Aug 02, 2013

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As a youngster, growing up in Sydney, I remember eagerly awaiting the next episode of Astro Boy, ever ready to watch my favorite flying robot dish out mechanical beat-downs to unruly giants and other ill-mannered trouble-makers. Of course, at the time, I had no idea it was originally called Mighty Atom, I'd never heard of...