Happy Lunar New Year! Gong hey fat choy! The Gap is an inspiring video on living a creative life, from American public radio personality, host, and producer, Ira Glass, who is best known for his great documentary work on the This American Life talk show. I'm a fan - the talk show has been going...
Advertising agency, WTBWA, recently helped promote the Sydney International Food Festival by designing 18 national flags using the most common foods associated with that respective country. Pretty neat to look at and also interesting to see what IS considered as the most common foods for a particular country. However, am I the only one who...
The most innovative wearable tech gets a new app and it's surely brings "Google Glass" back in to the mouths of the people. Welcome the latest hype for the Glass wearers out there, Glance app. First each partner will need to put their Glass on...
I've been lucky enough to have not one but two dream jobs. Helping to start Giant Robot and edit the magazine for 16 years was a great run. How many writers get to work with their best friend and cover pretty much whatever he or she wants every single issue? And being a part of...
[caption id="attachment_9450" align="aligncenter" width="790"] Sophia Chang at the Agenda trade show in Long Beach (January 7, 2014)[/caption] I was introduced to Sophia Chang when we were working on interTrend's twentieth anniversary tenugui project together. Her contribution was an array of rapper portraiture done in a deceptively effortless-looking, pen-and-ink style. (Of course, the Queens creator's tastes lean...
Here's a fascinating PSA about nutrition and diet, from The RSA, which stands for The Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce. It's a British charity dedicated to the development of a principled, prosperous society and the release of human potential. Sounds good to me! Interestingly, the idea put forth in this...
The Dalai Lama is arguably the MOST open human being on this planet. Shoot, he probably is #1 and I'm just not doing him any justice. I've always been fascinated by him and have always wanted to see him speak in person. But, since I've never done so I just settle for his awesome mashup...
I go through dry spells of "cool" stuff sometimes, just nothing cool heads my way. I just received some amazing things and I'd thought I'd share. Artifact by Gerber I found this amazing piece to add to my "EDC" (Everyday Carry). It's a great tool that comes with a prybar, bottle opener, screw driver heads and a...
Orange Country Register published a great article about Imprint's founder, Julia Huang, and her umbrella company, Renzei Holdings, which houses our big sister company interTrend Communications, us here at Imprint, and several other agencies to boot. The article also features Imprint's own Tanya Raukko and mentions some of our key investments. ...
I couldn't make it to the Nick Zinner and Malia James photo exhibit in Pomona the other week, but when I saw that the latter was selling a Photographs From The Road zine I immediately hit her up. I love art zines because they're imperfect, fragile, and cheap but made with love. I don't fool...