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STPL founder and URB contributor jeffstaple hosted a live 1-2-1 with Marc Ecko during the Imprint Culture Lab back in September, picking the brain of the talented entrepreneur. There’s good stuff here, be sure to check it out to hear Marc talk about his journey in creating a global brand and his advice for young upstarts.
‘To me, making a tape is like writing a letter – there’s a lot of erasing and rethinking and starting again. A good compilation tape, like breaking up, is hard to do. You’ve got to kick off with a corker, to hold the attention (I started with ‘Got to Get You Off My Mind’, but then realized that she might not get any further than track one, side one if I delivered what she wanted straightaway, so I buried it in the middle of side two), and then you’ve got to up it a notch, or cool it a notch, and you can’t have white music and black music together, unless the white music sounds like black music, and you can’t have two tracks by the same artist side by side, unless you’ve done the …
Designer, consultant and overall cool-finder jeffstaple gives us his Top Ten Fonts of 2008.
Check out more photos from this year’s Imprint Conference, featuring Hiroshi Fujiwara and jeffstaple….
Pictures courtesy of Shannon Donnelly
While tied at my desk for the first portion of the day, I made it to Downtown LA in time to listen in on Panel #3: The Cult of Collaboration. The subject alone made my ears perk, but it was the list of speakers that really made me anxious to listen in: Hiroshi Fujiwara (often said to be the Godfather of streetwear), David Wilson (Creative Director over at Kangol Headwear), jeffstaple (Founder/Designer of Staple Design), and Michael Kuhle (Product Development Director at Lomo)… quite the impressive group of people right? The four men discussed the various collaborations they’ve worked together on,
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