July 2014

ICL

Our #IMPRINTPRESENTS events have been great, and they're going to continue. We've had Levi Maestro, David Choe, Koichi Suzuno and most recently Jeff Hamada. Our next one is coming up on August 12th, and this time we've got John Maeda! He's one of those guys that says things that people on Instagram like to post....

Editorial

By now you've read about the celebrity hijinks, the sequel and reboot announcements, and the crazy fans who camped in line for hours to enter Hall H. You've seen photos of scandalous or sad cosplay as well as the horrendous traffic all over the city. And it's true that the annual gathering of pop culture...

8 Questions

Lisa Wiseman is an accomplished San Francisco-based photographer with an impressive portfolio of portrait photography and some very cool (not to mention successful) projects under her belt too. She was selected for the prestigious PDN's 30 list from Photo District News in 2009. In 2012 LIsa founded The 30Love worldwide charitable art project which asked...

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Right after last Friday's #IMPRINTPRESENTS talk with the very talented and endearing, not to mention, down-to-Earth Jeff Hamada, the Imprint team and our bigger sister interTrend family were all treated to a gourmet lunch at the brand new Gentaro Soba location in Downtown LA, in the brand new FIGat7th development. I was not blessed with...

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On September 22, 2013 Diana Nyad, a world record distance swimmer, approached the Key West shores after swimming for nearly 53 consecutive hours from the coast of Cuba. 53 HOURS. Just let that sink in for a bit. She had attempted this exact same swim four previous times but was forced to abandon them due...

Editorial

Last Friday, Jeff Hamada came to town and gave a special lunchtime #imprintpresents talk at the Downtown Independent. After being introduced by Imprint Culture Lab's own Julia Huang, the Vancouver, BC-based founder of booooooom.com did not boast about his hugely popular art website or even his own art. Instead, he talked about failure. Telling stories about...

8 Questions

Today's interview is with Kent Mori, one of the Founders behind ASPECD Apparel, a new contemporary menswear company that makes it super easy to find great fitting clothes - and boy do they mean easy. Each shirt sold on the site is offered in "in-between sizes," such as "medium/large" and "large/XL," and with FREE alterations...

News

The Architecture for Dogs exhibition makes its way to the People's Republic of China for the first time this month, with the opening at ZHI Art Museum, in Chengdu, in the province of Sichuan. The opening event takes place at 2:30pm today. Stay tuned to the Architecture for Dogs website, for photo and video content from the exhibition. ...

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$2 billion to build. $3.5 million filtration system. $4 million annual maintenance cost. 0.6 miles long covering 20 acres of land. This, my friends, is THE largest pool in the world. Located at a private resort in Chile the owners wanted to keep the water as clear as possible, and based off of the images,...

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The most unlikely of Kickstarters has happened and reached its goal numerous times over. You may have read or heard it on the news. It's essentially just potato salad. When Kickstarter switched their review process to a more automated reviewing this KS for potato salad was born. Just a man on a mission to make...