November 2014

Editorial

Nov 25, 2014

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[caption id="attachment_12025" align="alignnone" width="790"] Photo on right courtesy of Oliver Seil.[/caption] A few weeks ago, I was asked by my friend James Chu to do a talk for the Art Center Branding Atelier. I don't speak much about my years at Giant Robot magazine these days and branding isn't exactly my specialty. But how could I...

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Nov 24, 2014

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If you're trying to shoot photos with a smartphone, the guys at COOPH made a video on how to shoot interesting photos with cardboard, binoculars, car reflectors, etc. My favorite would have to be the last one because I thought the only way you can shoot underwater photos was through a waterproof case. I was...

Editorial

Nov 24, 2014

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Of course, I would eventually meet Sunyoung Lee. She and I dove into indie publishing around the same time and have specialized in digging up and sharing Asian and Asian American culture that isn't lame. And she happens to be the publisher at Kaya Press, which not only released my friend Ed Lin's badass debut...

Feed, On Beauty

Nov 21, 2014

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It's pretty amazing what you can do with cardboard packaging, when you think about it. Architecture for Dogs contributor (and 2014 Pritzker Prize winner to boot) Shigeru Ban builds entire buildings out of cardboard, using reinforced poster tubes, for example. Similarly, I think the packaging on the Wanmock Kit designed by Torafu Architects is a...

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Nov 20, 2014

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No matter how technologically advanced the world gets, most REAL business gets done in person: at dinner, over drinks or in some type of social environment. I'm a strong believer that nothing can replace the experience of an in-person interaction to determine if a particular individual is legit. Whether it's getting consumer feedback, building a...

Editorial

Nov 19, 2014

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We're no stranger to a little extra something when it comes to getting music, whether it's bonus tracks or exclusive packaging. It's a simple gimmick, but we've all grown to expect them and now we're living in an evolving marketplace and the gimmicks are too. I've culled 3 different ones that present an interesting take...

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Nov 17, 2014

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On Thursday Nov. 13th, Mammoth Mountain opened their lifts for people to snowboard and ski down their mountain for their opening day. It looked like a pretty good turn out from looking at the pictures and videos people posted using the hashtag #mammothsopen. For the month of December they are offering a buy one...

ICL

Nov 14, 2014

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Here it is ladies and gents, the video from our Imprint Presents Koichi Suzuno talk back on Monday, May 5th, 2014. He's a co-founder of Torafu Architects, an accomplished Japanese firm which excels in many aspects of design, from architecture, to art installations, to product design. Torafu’s clients include the likes of Sony, TOTO, Freitag,...

Feed, Humbled

Nov 13, 2014

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More space is not always necessarily better. There's an art to maximizing dead space and certainly something gratifying behind the ability to materialize the vision for it. Inspired by a balance of space-saving furniture on boats and the infamously clean lines found in Japanese homes, Christian Schallert converted an old 258 square foot pigeon loft...