September 2010
1 post
Ideas That Matter
Great news! We found out last week that we’re a grant recipient for Sappi Fine Paper’s Ideas that Matter Program. That means that over the next six months, Greg can keep designing some awesome communication materials for Hello Rewind. To see the other recipients (or if you’re a designer who wants to enter next year!), take a look at Sappi’s press release.
August 2010
1 post
Amazing Saturday Photoshoot
For months, people have been asking us for better photos of our products. So a few weeks ago, we decided to buckle down and make a true photoshoot happen. We sent out a call for volunteers to our friends and communities, and we had a generous outpouring of help for photoshoot last Saturday. To everyone who was a part of it — we couldn’t have done it without you. We had so much fun...
June 2010
2 posts
REDLIGHT laptop sleeves available for preorder
Our friends at Restore NYC co-hosted the movie premiere for REDLIGHT, a documentary produced by Lucy Liu bringing awareness to the plight of sex trafficking victims in Cambodia. In celebration of the the release of REDLIGHT, we’re offering up our second special edition laptop sleeve. Our Hope design showcases our own hope for the future for each of the women we work with and fight to...
America's Most Promising Social Entrepreneurs
We were just named a finalist in Businessweek’s second annual roundup of America’s Most Promising Social Entrepreneurs. It’s an amazing honor to be alongside companies such as Organic Valley and Mission Measurement as we all strive towards a better world. Voting for the top 5 companies is going on now and ends on June 26th. Please help us out by going to the vote page and...
April 2010
2 posts
Summer Fellowship
Our amazing intern Crystal is graduating and leaving New York City in May. We’re extremely sad to lose her, but that means we’re on the lookout for her replacement! This April, we’re interviewing for a summer Fellowship position. You’ll work directly with the Hello Rewind team in growing the business and helping the sex trafficking survivors we support. If you’re...
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Fallon Briefs
In 2008, Fallon was using these two briefs.Both are non-directional and open for the planner to express their thinking in any form necessary. And you have your standard Fallon logo on top, ‘What’s needed’ and approvals on the bottom. One was the normal agency brief. The other, named the ‘Red Brief’ was for when the brief was important — the client hates all your...
March 2010
3 posts
The Good Capitalist Party
Monday marked the first annual SXSW Good Capitalist party. We were honored to sponsor this celebration of social entrepreneurship in conjunction with Martin Montero and our friends at Changemakers, Acumen Fund, Skoll Foundation, Social Capital Markets, and Kiva (among many other wonderful organizations)! We met some great people and had a fabulous time talking about how each of us is trying to...
Coming soon...
Psst… we’re about ready to launch our retail laptop sleeves! If you’re in NYC, soon you can buy a kit in a store and send us your t-shirt immediately (instead of waiting for us to send a mailer out to you). Above is a sneak preview of the materials we’re cutting right now that will go inside our laptop kit. Stay tuned. We’ll make our official announcement tomorrow.
Above all, care
This is the wave of change we aim to create. Above all — care. About people, places, objects made with love — not just disposable, commoditized stuff. — Umair Haque (@umairh) in the Harvard Business Review blog
February 2010
12 posts
International Support
It always amazes us — and shows us the true power of the internet and social media — when people e-mail from abroad asking about Hello Rewind laptop sleeves. Since it’s more expensive to ship back and forth internationally, we always ask those outside the United States if they can mail us their t-shirts directly, while we ship the final product back for free. Lauri from...
Followup: The Good Capitalist Party
If you haven’t signed up yet for the Good Capitalist Party, we’ve already sold out of all available tickets! Never fear — put yourself on the wait list, and we’ll see what we can do about getting you in. If you will be there and want to spend time with us at SXSWi, please drop us a line so we can keep an eye out for you!
SXSWi
We’re happy to announce that Hello Rewind is co-sponsoring the #socent #sxsw Good Capitalist Party! Along with our friends at Ashoka’s Changemakers, Project 7, Kiva, Acumen Fund, Beyond Profit and many other fantastic organizations, we’re going to showcase social enterprise to the SXSW community. Good Capitalist Party Monday, March 15 @ 7pm - 9pm Hot Mommas Espresso Patio...
Our first orders
We’re grateful for the overwhelmingly positive response we’ve received about Hello Rewind. Last night was a night of stuffing envelopes and preparing mailers for all the orders. Today, we trudged out to the post office to mail our first batches of orders. Here are some pictures — if you ordered recently, your envelope might be one of these envelopes! See and download the...
TED terrifying fact: the price of a slave has...
TED terrifying fact: the price of a slave has never been lower According to Free the Slaves founder Kevin Bales, the price of a slave throughout history has averaged $40000. Today, the global average cost is $90. In some parts of the world, people can be acquired for $5-$10 Sent from my iPhone 20 ...
Facebook Fans
Our Facebook Fan page is up! Join us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/hellorewind.
The Internet Love Hammer
Hi. Seeing as how this is my first post to the Hello Rewind blog, an introduction is in order. My name is J.Todd Smith, and today has been a pretty momentous day. After months of planning. After consultations with anti-sex trafficking experts, and lawyers, and a seamstress. After making sure a training instructor was in place. And after working the numbers so that the women at the center of...
Bigger Sleeves!
Thanks to all of you who wrote asking why we couldn’t protect your big 17” Macbook Pros. I never knew that so many of them existed in the wild, but you’ve proved me wrong! So, beginning now, we’ve added a 17” option to our lineup. In return, those of you with your big laptops need to promise to send us bigger t-shirts or send us two shirts. Otherwise, we...
Coming soon
To @92BuickLeSabre and @OMG! Ponies! on Gizmodo… we’re working on a post for you :)
Some Gizmodo Love (and a reply)
So Gizmodo wrote about our project today, and the comment board lit up. In the spirit of complete transparency, I wanted to clear up something that may be confusing. @confuzzled asked: “After supporting the sex trafficking suvivors involved with Hello Rewind, the remaining profits are recycled back into the company so that we can grow the business to support even more women.” ...
The Power Of Social Media
We want to give a thousand thanks to one of our favorite designers, Swissmiss, for giving us some blog and Twitter love this morning! It really shows the power of one! I’ve spent the last hour replying to tweets and trying to show everyone appreciation for their love of our idea. So to @sarachoe, @dkwong5, @jpickens, @ledomsraeysiht, @biscuitrat, @billyadams, @andrewmeyes, @artate,...
Where It Began
Half a year ago, I approached my fellow business partners at the Longitude with an idea. I had all these old t-shirts laying in my dresser drawer, I explained. And, living in Manhattan, I exactly didn’t have room to spare. What if we could start a project to recycle my t-shirts into something new? Fast forward six months, and Hello Rewind has become bigger than I ever envisioned from day...