Last week, I posted the first in the series of five new Decade of Knocks videos from our good friends at Knockaround - all about the growth of their incredible brand over the last ten years. I thought the first episode was great, but this second one very kindly features a nod to Imprint's role...
Last week Thursday, the Imprint crew were lucky enough to get invites to hang with the Knockaround Mai Tais Launch Party at Beach Nation in Hollywood, CA. The Mai Tais are the latest new sunglasses model from Knockaround - kind of a big deal! Lots of fun was had as the weather cooperated beautifully and...
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. ...
We're lucky enough to be deeply involved in the startup process here at Imprint - from the birth of an idea, through to incorporation of a company and the execution of a business plan. It's a fascinating process: equal parts crucial, stressful, formative, and exciting. If you're interested in getting a very meta, painfully accurate...
Our seed-stage incubator Imprint Venture Lab was profiled on the LA Times website today! Check out Imprint Venture Lab looking to fund and assist creative entrepreneurs. The print version will be out this Saturday too. ...
Architecture For Dogs contributing architect Shigeru Ban was awarded the prestigious Pritzker Prize this year. The accomplished Japanese architect has become very well known for his advances in temporary housing for disasters, used around the world, including Japan, Rwanda, and many more far-flung places. Ban has been experimenting with paper tubes as a sustainable building...
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...
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...
Imprint has produced a video which helps explain the Imprint Venture Lab FastPitch drive for 2014 - our effort to find more great people and ideas for IVL to consider for investment/partnership in. The video looks at IVL's portfolio to date and talks about the opportunity in working with passionate entrepreneurs in order to help...
Last week, the Imprint team and our friends from the InterTrend creative department were treated to a very special Portland visit with advertising legend John Jay. Needless to say, it was a wonderfully inspiring trip, which included a tour of the incredibly impressive W+K Portland headquarters; a visit to John Jay's special GX office (inside...