October 2014

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Oct 31, 2014

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Jerry Hsiao and I are (apparently) on a mission to keep everyone posted about the quickly developing dystopian reality of a world chock full of affordable commercial drones. It's been several months since we blogged about the latest in drone tech. Between the evolving product landscape and the ongoing military reliance on them, drones have...

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Oct 29, 2014

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A decade ago, collaborations had a "new" feeling that you could almost say was refreshing. These days collaborations are all around, but some are so limited that people go crazy for them. I culled a few "it" collaborations that are coming out. If you are looking to get them, you better start waiting in line...

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Oct 28, 2014

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[caption id="attachment_11710" align="alignnone" width="790"] Partners in Crime (Taiwan, 2014)[/caption] I was pretty stoked to score a pair of tickets to see the new Takashi Miike flick at the AFI Fest. We don't get to see works by the Japanese director on the big screen here in L.A. very often, and Over Your Dead Body is especially...

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Oct 27, 2014

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Philip Lumbang is an accomplished young artist, based in Los Angeles. When we first met about a decade ago, Phil was art assistant to American stencil master Shepard Fairey (of OBEY fame) and also interning at a mutual friend's clothing label. It's been amazing to watch Phil's progression and growth as an artist: developing his...

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Oct 24, 2014

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If you take your travel as seriously as our most recent Imprint Presents speaker Jan Chipchase does, you'll appreciate the D3 Traveller, a truly world-class travel bag he's carefully designed over the last few years. Jan worked with a dedicated team of early adopters and beta testers to prototype and fine tune this impressive design....

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Oct 23, 2014

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There's Southwest Airlines with their creative safety briefings, Virgin America with their fancy, choreographed safety video, and then you have Air New Zealand's recently self-proclaimed "most epic safety video" inspired by the third and last installment of the Hobbit Trilogy. From a branding and advertising perspective, this is just absolutely brilliant. Air New Zealand gets...

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Oct 22, 2014

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What happened to that food show with the Asian on YouTube? It seems with the success of Eddie Huang's other venture Fresh Off the Boat is no longer that, and now we get Eddie Huang's Huang's World. They've just began to rewrap the original episodes and can be found on Vice's food channel called Munchies. Take...

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Oct 21, 2014

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The phone call I got from ABC's Nightline earlier this month wasn't the first time a television producer had contacted me asking if I would provide my take on cosmetic eyelid surgery for Asians. I never asked to be a spokesperson on the topic but I'm pretty sure it started in 2004. A reporter who was...

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Oct 20, 2014

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Carly Chiao is another wonderful individual I met through John Maeda a few months back. She is currently a designer for Victorious, a platform that enables content creators (e.g. YouTube stars) to connect and engage with their fans on a more meaningful level. With the massive volume of content that is being pushed out every...

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Oct 17, 2014

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Last year, Imprint's founder, Julia Huang, spoke about our Architecture for Dogs project at the first Purina Better with Pets conference in New York City. You can revisit our posts about that event here and here. I was lucky enough to attend this year's Better with Pets summit earlier this week, at the impressive Skylight...