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The T-Shirt Company That Washes the Trouble Out Before You Wear It
Massive Prints built a large apparel operation around a small domestic annoyance: the shirt that changes shape after the first wash. Its answer is part chemistry, part choreography, and a useful lesson in making the boring step the business.
The PR Studio With Soil Under Its Fingernails
earthside sits in the unlikely patch where community gardens, conservation groups, sneaker companies and musicians meet. Its wager is simple: ecological communication works better when it begins with relationships, not reach.
Victory Display puts the sales pitch on the shop floor
A headphone demo is only as good as the fixture holding it. Victory Display combines fabrication, electronics and installation to help brands make their case in person.
Kendrick Lamar
Kendrick Lamar Duckworth is the most decorated rapper in Grammy history, a Pulitzer Prize winner, and the architect of West Coast hip-hop's cultural dominance. Born in Compton, California on June 17, 1987, he rose from Section 8 housing to headlining the most-watched Super Bowl halftime show in history (133.5M viewers, Feb 2025). His 2024 Drake beef produced 'Not Like Us' — a diss track that won five Grammys including Record and Song of the Year — and his surprise-dropped GNX album cemented his status as rap's reigning voice. Co-founder of pgLang, fiancé of high school sweetheart Whitney Alford, and father of two, Lamar remains one of music's most private and intellectually rigorous artists.