November 2014

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If you're interested in this year's Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit where our founder Julia Huang was named one of Fortune's ten Most Promising Women Entrepreneurs 2014, you can check out the Live Stream of the entire event. ...

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I recently received a care package from our friend Allister Lee (Check out his 8Qs), and inside were two amazing new products that he just released. If you know Allister then you know he's crazy about detail and quality. His pieces always come with a little bit of his personality whether it's his zines or...

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[caption id="attachment_11871" align="alignnone" width="790"] Mike Watt & The Second Men (Pic: Tiffiny Harshaw); Jenny Lewis, The Voyager (2014)[/caption] I've known Josh Mills for years now, through his work with the band and our mutual friends Dengue Fever, his music and comedy PR company, and our shared love of L.A. Kings hockey. But nowadays whenever his name...

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Every year in the month of November, nonprofit Canstruction will team up with architects and designers to help raise food and awareness for the hungry. They are given 75,000 cans to build a unique sculpture of their own. On the last day, the art is disassembled and donated to City Harvest, so they...

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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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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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When a business needs to shut down their operation the space they occupy typically goes unused for extended periods of time (if not years) before a new tenant takes over the property. Its an unfortunate consequence of business turnover but also an opportunity to do something amazing for someone with the right vision. An old...

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Last week I got an email from my friend Tom Devlin, Creative Director of the Toronto-based indie, arty, and boutique comic publishing imprint Drawn & Quarterly. He was asking if I might answer some questions and contribute some thoughts to a 25th anniversary and hopefully not secret anthology that is slated to come out next...

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When I think of 3-D printing a transportation object, I think about printing a skateboard or bike. I would have never thought printing an actual car would even be possible! Earlier this month, Arizona based Local Motors showcased their first 3-D printed car at the International Manufacturing Technology Show in Chicago. It took about 45...