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By Lana Zellner Stephan Jaklitsch has been the sole architect for Marc Jacobs International. In the ten years since his firm opened, he’s built an impressive 100+ projects all over the world. He also recently published a monograph with ORO Editions which is receiving great reviews. Stephan’s work is modern yet warm. He is best known [...]

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After doing more than 100 interviews for this site, I think I can easily conclude that most entrepreneurs are overworked, at least in the beginning stages. Everyone has their own tricks for staying on top of everything. One of the tricks up my sleeve is EBOOST. When I got my latest order from them in [...]

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It’s no secret that kids are looking at porn online. Perhaps the most serious side effect of this? A generation growing up with internet porn as their main form of sex-ed. Pornography is not exactly a guide for real-world sex, hence why Cindy Gallop started makelovenotporn.com to set the record straight. What gave you the idea [...]

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Jim Coudal is a truly inspiring character. His company decided to shift from the standard model of selling their creative services to clients, to a model of creating products which they own and have full control over. And they’ve been very successful at it. Coudal Partners is proof that you can indeed create your own [...]

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Scott Ballum is another entrepreneur getting his start in Green Spaces – a shared office space for socially-responsible startups. His company is named Sheepless Co. Why? In Scott’s words: “I stopped working to promote companies I didn’t know anything about. I stopped blindly spending my money on what others thought I should like. It’s an exciting [...]

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When these guys were still both in school for graphic design, they began to explore the surrounding creative territory. They spent their summers in New York interning for photographers and art direction agencies. During the school year, they pursued fun independent projects like bedazzling tons of cigars and photographing a local Pittsburgh rapper. They starting [...]

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Blogger vs. Blogger: We sat down with Josh Spear and found out how he's come to run a virtual media empire at the age of 24. Josh is one of the youngest marketing strategists in the world. In addition to JoshSpear.com, his internationally recognized trend-spotting blog, he is a founding partner of Undercurrent, a digital think-tank focused on new ways to reach young people without interrupting them. BLOGGING Did you actively promote your site, or did the traffic just grow organically? No, I never actively promoted the site. I was always proud to say I never marketed it. I never did banner-swaps with anybody. I was fortunate enough to start the site when design blogs were few and far-between. There was Grace from Design*Sponge, Josh from Cool Hunting, myself, and only a few others. [...]

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I’ve never been fully sure just what The Apartment does. After interviewing the founder, Stefan Boublil, I found out that this confusion stems from the fact that they do everything. Really. No project is too far-fetched, as long as they find it interesting. They’ve successfully avoided putting themselves in a box. Stefan is strikingly philosophical, [...]

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I’ve followed Swiss Miss’s blog for what feels like a long time now. It’s one of my very favorites for its mixture of all things good design, across the discplines. When we found out that Tina, the woman behind it all, also has her own design studio and it’s located in DUMBO, we headed on [...]

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Ryan is the force behind Pomp&Clout, and the king of video flyers. What is a video flyer, you might ask? It’s a new promotional medium which is enabled by viral file-sharing. Pomp&Clout’s eye for graphics and ear for beats are a killer combination, leading to amazing music-related graphics. www.pompandclout.com How did Pomp & Clout start?