On Beauty

Feed, Humbled, On Beauty

Perfection and passion typically go hand in hand. When you become so passionate about something, you want to perfect every intricate detail and nuance there is to know about that particular subject or hobby. Most successful folks I've come across usually describe this as almost OCD-like and admit that you need to be a little...

Feed, On Beauty

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...

Feed, On Beauty

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...

ICL, On Beauty

Imprint and our friends at our big sister company interTrend were lucky enough to host the amazingly talented SF-based artist Aaron De La Cruz here in Long Beach for a few days this week, while he painted a huge mural inside the Edison Theatre in Downtown. The space, aka Camp Edison, will be the temporary...

ICL, On Beauty

Imprint's founder Julia Huang was in Tokyo yesterday to attend the Takeo Paper Show 2014 which is currently on exhibit at TOLOT in Shinonome. Presented by paper manufacturer Takeo Co, Ltd, it is an exhibition curated & art directed by Kenya Hara and his Nippon Design Center, Hara Design Institute (much like Imprint's Architecture For...

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...

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...

Feed, On Beauty

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...

On Beauty

I'm not sure if it's this stereotypically un-Californian weather we're having here today sending me on a sentimental journey, or not, but I thought I'd share some more highlights from our trip to Tokyo late last year, when it rained nearly every day for a week. The main focus of the visit was the Architecture...