April 2014

Editorial

Apr 29, 2014

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Last Thursday, I drove over to Space 15 Twenty in Hollywood to attend the release party for my friend Justin "Scrappers" Morrison's new magazine. It's pretty bold for anyone to start a print publication these days, but that's how Scrappers approaches his life, art, and work. He just goes for it. And Scrappers has had...

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Apr 28, 2014

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I first became aware of Mark Trombino through his drumming. Holy crap, was Drive Like Jehu great. I drove from L.A. to San Diego many times to see the post punk rippers everywhere from the Women's Club to the World Beat Center to the original location of the Casbah. Amazing. So I was stoked when...

ICL

Apr 25, 2014

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Imprint are very pleased to present a talk with Koichi Suzuno in Los Angeles on May 5th! Koichi is a talented architect, award-winning designer, and co-founder of Torafu Architects, an accomplished Tokyo-based firm. You can read about Torafu and view some of their critically-acclaimed work on their great site. While he's not quite as well...

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Apr 22, 2014

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I have to admit that I used to scoff at WonderCon. It always seemed like a low-budget version of the San Diego Comic-Con, which I began attending as a comic-collecting little kid way back in 1979 and began attending as a Giant Robot booth guy in the mid-1990s. When I first attended WonderCon in Oakland...

News

Apr 21, 2014

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Imprint's founder, Julia Huang, and Managing Partner, Tanya Raukko, were recently featured in the Los Angeles Business Journal. The article points out Imprint Venture Lab's somewhat unique qualities as an incubator of consumer goods (rather than tech), and also looks at each of IVL's investments up until rhyla, including Knockaround, Omhu, Hollr, and Becomb. Also...

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Apr 21, 2014

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Tracy Nguyen, the founder of IVL's latest partnership, rhyla, was featured on Instagram's Popular Page this weekend - for her announcement about partnering with us here at Imprint Venture Lab! Seems an auspicious start to a great partnership!  ...

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Apr 18, 2014

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Some very inspiring content from Leica - for their second film in the Let Us Roam series, the well-respected German camera maker teamed up with SoCal-based pro skateboarder-turned-photographer Arto Saari. A Finnish transplant, Arto talks about discovering skateboarding as a youngster and what that meant for him athe time, he talks about some of the...

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Apr 17, 2014

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"Fear has a place in our emotional life, and it shows up daily. Everything causes it." Finding that motivation and courage to overcome that bitch of a feeling can just be so incredibly daunting at times, but as we all know, nothing in life thats worth anything at all is easy. Take it from a...

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Apr 16, 2014

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In NY there are some big buildings, and lots of residential area for advertising. There's always the option of advertising on a billboard but to be a real eye catcher you need to go big. That's when they call in the "wall dogs" the crazy guys that drop down on scaffolding and paint on these...