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Jan 20, 2015 Long Beach: Work in Progress 2

by Martin Wong

On April 26, 2013, I helped organize an Imprint conference called Long Beach: Work in Progress. The idea was to celebrate the city where Imprint and its sister companies were about to put down some serious roots. After being housed in a nondescript Ocean Boulevard high rise for more than a decade, plans were announced...

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Jun 19, 2013 Long Beach: Work in Progress – Video 3 of 3

by Martin Wong

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...

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Jun 04, 2013 Long Beach Work in Progress – Video 2 of 3

by Martin Wong

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...

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May 14, 2013 Portraits from Long Beach: Work in Progress

by Martin Wong

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:...

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May 07, 2013 Long Beach: Work in Progress – Photo Recap

by Martin Wong

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...

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Apr 30, 2013 Long Beach: Work in Progress recap 1

by Martin Wong

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...

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Mar 19, 2013 Imprint Long Beach: W+K Garage’s John Jay

by Martin Wong

Creativity guru and longtime Wieden+Kennedy heavy John Jay is heading up the world-class agency’s new joint venture, W+K Garage, a muti-disciplined shop that specializes in no-holds-barred innovation, creation, and possibility. When he isn’t traveling the world, curating culture, or pushing the boundaries of media, Jay carves out time to evolve his adopted hometown of Portland....

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Jan 29, 2013 Imprint Culture Lab comes to Long Beach

by Martin Wong

Since 2006, Imprint Culture Lab has put a spotlight on under-the-radar, up-and-coming, and just-plain-cool topics: unseen influencers, next-level interests, and most recently Architecture for Dogs. We are pleased to announce that the next event will take place in Downtown Long Beach, CA and cover...

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Jan 20, 2015 Long Beach: Work in Progress 2

Jun 19, 2013 Long Beach: Work in Progress – Video 3 of 3

Jun 04, 2013 Long Beach Work in Progress – Video 2 of 3

May 14, 2013 Portraits from Long Beach: Work in Progress

May 07, 2013 Long Beach: Work in Progress – Photo Recap

Apr 30, 2013 Long Beach: Work in Progress recap 1

Mar 19, 2013 Imprint Long Beach: W+K Garage’s John Jay

Jan 29, 2013 Imprint Culture Lab comes to Long Beach