May 12, 2016 Imprint Presents: Jeffstaple 1-2-1 with Sophia Chang
If you missed our event with Sophia Chang, we just uploaded the full edit on our Vimeo account. Check out the video below and get the inside scoop and the latest from illustrator and designer, Sophia Chang....
Mar 01, 2016 #imprintpresents Sophia Chang at the Downtown Independent recap
It's both weird and fun to see friends doing a Q&A in a public setting. You might already know a thing or two about the subject, but then there's the digging around about personal professional stuff that you've always been too sheepish or polite to ask about. Imprint's own Jeffrey Ng (a.k.a. jeffstaple) was the...
Dec 29, 2015 Best of Imprint 2015
Around this time of year, we gather as much of the crew as possible to share a meal and discuss highlights from Imprint's previous 12 months. I scribbled down everyone's thoughts on their favorite articles as quickly as I could! Tanya Raukko: "I was really intrigued by Matt Jay’s interview of the 'laboratory for publication' duo,...
Jun 30, 2015 Hello from Pow! Wow! Long Beach
Of course this is a blog for Imprint, a group of people that had everything to do with bringing Pow! Wow! to Long Beach and really made the wheels roll once it came along. But I can't claim any responsibility or take any credit for the event. Kudos go to Julia (above, left), Tanya, Jeff,...
Sep 02, 2014 #imprintpresents Jan Chipchase at the Downtown Independent recap
Imprint's Jeffrey Ng introduced Jan Chipchase as a guy who specializes in gathering impossible-to-get information for clients. Chipchase is famously able to extract data from the most insular communities around the world, ranging from the very richest to the most poor. His #imprintpresents talk at the Downtown Independent on Tuesday, August 26, was a rare...
Jun 19, 2013 Long Beach: Work in Progress – Video 3 of 3
Has it really been eight weeks since Imprint's Long Beach: Work in Progress conference took place at the historic and long-shuttered Edison Theatre? Time flies, yet it was always our intention that its message of understanding and growing local history and culture would reach the entire city. We have also hoped to inspire members of other...
Jun 04, 2013 Long Beach Work in Progress – Video 2 of 3
To expand on the audience and effectiveness of our recent Long Beach: Work in Progress conference, we have commissioned a series of videos. This is the second of three, and features the team of core speakers including Imprint founder Julia Huang, W+K Garage founder John Jay, Staple Design's jeffstaple, and me. Its purpose is to...
May 14, 2013 Portraits from Long Beach: Work in Progress
As long as new material from Long Beach: Work in Progress keeps trickling in, I'm going to keep blogging about it. This post features some excellent portraiture of the speakers by my friend Ben Clark. Above, Architecture and Food Panelists: Long Beach architecture experts and authors Cara Mullio and Jennifer M. Volland (Edward A. Killingsworth:...
May 07, 2013 Long Beach: Work in Progress – Photo Recap
Our friend and photographer Ben Clark has been sending us previews of images that he and his team shot at the Long Beach: Work in Progress conference and they are sweet. I love how they show that the event was an actual gathering of people--and not just a collision of ideas. And while I've been blabbing...
Apr 30, 2013 Long Beach: Work in Progress recap 1
Where were you last Friday? If you weren't at the freshly unlocked and dusted-off Edison Theatre attending Imprint's Long Beach: Work in Progress, here's what you missed following Julia Huang's welcome and introduction. (These are my hack photos but we'll share professional images from Ben Clark Photo next week...