April 2013

8 Questions

Apr 29, 2013

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For this week's installment of our ongoing interview series, I got to chat with Angeleno artist Ken Garduno. I met Ken through my friend Fred Guerrero, who was kind enough to sit down for his own 8 Q's interview with us a few months back. You can read that here, if you missed it. Anyway,...

8 Questions

Apr 22, 2013

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One of Imprint’s portfolio company founders, Levi Maestro of Becomb, had been working with a design agency called Potluck. Through this relationship, we became aware that Potluck’s founders, Eric Lai and Ko Nakatsu, had their own penchant for entrepreneurialism and had successfully launched an incredible business via the Kickstarter community, called Hiya. We...

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Apr 19, 2013

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We've been lucky enough to work with the always-inspiring Levi Maestro over the last few months, helping him launch his Becomb brand successfully. Never one to sit still, Levi has also been busy with a lot of other fascinating projects. MKUSA is a series of videos - the result of a 2012 road-trip Levi took...

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Apr 18, 2013

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The below video has caught like wild fire ever since it launched a few days ago. Dove has been on this up and down marketing cycle for quite some time, but this latest effort truly is fantastic. This video puts a positive spin on an image-centric society and changes the way we perceive not only...

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Apr 15, 2013

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A new impactful campaign coming from Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America gets you motivated for gun control. Produced by Grey Canada working pro bono for the cause. The video for the campaign can be seen below asking the question: "How many more rounds are we going to let this go on for?" ...

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Apr 15, 2013

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I got to meet Hawaiian-born, New Jersey-based artist Ian Kuali'i while I was in Hawaii for POW WOW 2013 for Imprint earlier this year. I'd just arrived in town for the massive art summit, and was eager to see all the wall murals in progress. Ian overheard me saying as much, mentioned he was just...

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Apr 11, 2013

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First there was SOPA, now there is CISPA, Cyber Intelligence and Sharing Protection Act. Long story short, Congress (along with their evil heavyweight lobbyists and media backers) is at it again to obliterate any resemblance of online privacy that we have left. In an "effort" to enhance America's defenses against future cyber attacks, CISPA aims...