So you’ve seen this Mayo colored beanie with the custom leather patch. Do you want it? Well CS is giving one away. We’ve finalize the design of the leather patch and have a sample beanie with the original patch design sitting around! So we’re giving this beanie out to our followers. — (this will be the one and only beanie with this patch design.)

Rules are simple-
1.LIKE us on facebook @ https://www.facebook.com/CREATIVEsession
2.Find this same photo and hit SHARE. Have your friends like the photo on your page.
3.The person with the most LIKES by sunday night. We will be sending them a beanie Monday Morning when we announce the winner.

So nearly a month from today I flew to Portland Oregon to see family and to attend the 2nd Annual NW SNEAKER EXPO at the Roseland Theater. We were invited to sell some CS gear and to shoot a feature video. A day ago I finally finished editing the feature and wrote a recap – summarizing our experience. Here is the video I made–

I’m literally done filming and editing for at least a month! HA!

READ THE FULL WRITE UP HERE.

Bro and I went sneaker shopping this weekend. Its too bad we didn’t get a hold of those “CHI Jordan X” Wanted them so bad. So Sad. If anyone knows how I can still get a hold of a pair let me know.

Anyway, the benefit of hooking folks up with our sticker is that it’s refreshing to randomly spot it on the streets. Someone that knows about CS was here once. THANKS ANONYMOUS STICKER, STICKER.

So we’ve been sampling beanies from a few different resources. Working hard to really get what we like. I think we’re getting close to something we are proud of and can sell to the general public! stay tune.

Ever since we’ve been toying with the idea of making custom leather patches to place on the back of our sweaters. We have gone a bit mad in designing new variations for upcoming beanies and hats that are yet to come.

I am really drawn to the last version with the bear integrated into the cross. Something about that bridges the space for me. Our fans all voted for option 2.

Met TJ at the NW Sneaker Expo. He has some pretty awesome mixes.
$25 MAG by BEATROX RECORDS

BREAKIT by BEATROX RECORDS

“Shoes can change your life. Just ask Cinderella!”

–Anonymous

RECAP:

**Special thanks to Paul Vu over at PaulVuPhotography for working with us.**

This past December, we spent some time in Portland, Oregon with friends and family for the holidays and to bring in the New Year by releasing our new “Homeward Bound” Collection.

We were invited to the 2nd Annual Sneaker Expo hosted by Ibeth Hernandez, Adam Illa Lewis, Blaze’ Lamar & Jacob Robinson at the Roseland Theater. The team was definitely excited to attend the event and our expectations were high cause we know our friend Ibeth throws a mean party.

In addition to filming the event as a part of our “3 Minute” interview series, we also sold Creative Session gear. It was dope to be apart of the expo and to meet everybody who attended and/or was apart of the event.

The exposure in Portland was awesome; we had a ton of fun networking and filming. It was quite hectic, and our anxiety level went through the roof trying to capture everything at the event. I must admit I’m quite satisfied with the footage taken and the result of the final edit. We captured the essence of the show and hope this will excite viewers enough to attend the next NW Sneaker expo in 2012.

[SPECIAL THANKS] for taking the time to sit down with us.
DjTj of BEATROX : http://thedjtj.com/
AyeLogics : http://ayelogics.com
J Kin : http://jaykinlive.com
Blaze’ : http://whothatkid.com
Sir Michael Rocks : http://sirmichaelrocks.com/

Here is the video:

Another element under the Creative Session umbrella was a photo booth area. Here are some photos taken of our fans, supporters, and new acquaintances – they sure had some fun with them. It was such a great opportunity to meet so many folks in the industry. If you took photos of the event, please Email us we will be happy to post them on our site!

Photobooth:

Ever since Hova & Yeezy’s “Watch The Throne” Album has been released I’ve been hearing a little too much of watching your throne this, watch your throne that. This is an homage to the departure of the symbol of highness and keeping us grounded. We wanted to capture the idea that the throne is a temporary seat. Its a piece of furniture something you own and could discard at a certain point in your life. Now I do not want to disregard the emotions and the psychological attachment a throne has to a kings, queen or a kingdom in history but we can only fight one battle and I choose to stand firmly that its merely just a seat.

Sneak peek:

we are also bringing back the “I CS SF” in this HEART OF GOLD version:

“Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each New Year find you a better man.” – Benjamin Franklin

This new year we are resetting our selves and going back to one. With our group reflection the team and I agreed last year we kinda worked like a shot gun blast. We scattered and accepted projects coming from all different angles. Now this is good to be busy and keep staying working, but the downside of this way of working is that we are not picking and choosing the right projects to move us forward. We’re acting like a kid in a candy store and fascinated by it all. This video is attributed to us being constantly reminded about positioning us with the right projects. This year is CS mature year.

“We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day.”  ~ Edith Lovejoy Pierce

2011 has been such a successful year as far as brand awareness. Being able to work on awesome projects and grow together as a team is great.

We started the year off by re-crafting Creative Session as an industrial design lifestyle driven collective rather than a clothing company. Anh and I felt as if we have gotten too involved with apparel that we lost track of our fascination of product design and the website was going in a direction of a clothing company rather than an industrial design collective. In a sense I think we both have been grappling internally about the identity of Creative Session and what we want people to perceive us as. We both graduated as industrial designers and wanted to use Creative Session as a company that emphasizes on working with other designers to make cool projects. The results will be our SESSION- hence the Creative Session.

As the year progressed Keith, Anh and I worked on many different projects all the while bounced ideas off each other. The projects were anything from Album Covers, Music Videos, Graphics, Animations, Photography, Industrial Design to Logos and much more. At this point we realized the true creative session was between everyone in the CREW!! we’ve been having our own Creative Session this whole time.

2011 definitely brought us all together even more. We now work closely and the dynamics of the crew has become easier to define, we can work faster, more efficient and our roles have dictated when and where we’re needed for any given project.

Anh and I do not stress about the types of projects we work on anymore but we’re excited about the projects we all are able to make happen!

SPECIAL THANKS | they contributed to our growth big or small.
Paul Vu, Siphavy Hem, , Steven Tran, Noel Andrade, Ryan Huy Nguyen

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We ended our year with the “Homeward Bound” Collection. The collection is about designing shirts that is iconic to the state we all have lived in. We threw a release party to sell sweaters and shirts we made. Here are photos from our photo booth.

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