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At the age of seven, ProjectFresh founder Douglas Campbell was uprooted from his young life in Washington DC by his eccentric Italian mother and relocated to the UK. The next decade was spent living between the solitude of the English countryside, historic central Rome and incarcerated within the strict English boarding school system. His experience at Harrow, whose alumni include Churchill and Nehru, was extreme but would have a profound impact on his future.
After being freed from the system in 1998, Campbell returned to the United States to attend the reknowned - and intensely liberal - Rhode Island School of Design. Building on his childhood experience, the severity of this juxtaposition cemented a unique dynamism that he would bring into all of his future projects.
After graduating from RISD in 2002, with a BFA in Product Design combined with an unofficial minor in web design, Campbell continued to live in Providence, creating a start up web and branding company with some friends. After a couple of years, sparked by a deeply imprinted need to explore, he left Providence and began a series of journeys throughout the US, Mexico and Asia, paid for by his web work. It was on these travels that he discovered his joy of writing about the odd characters and scenarios he found himself surrounded by.
Eventually in late 2005 he settled in Los Angeles, a city he'd come to love for its acceptance of bizarre, hard-to-define characters; a place of endless recreation; a place to call home.
Over the course of the next few years Campbell has undertaken a series of acclaimed projects, centered around constucting community, sharing ideas, showcasing fascinating characters, raising personal and social awareness and celebrating what it means to be alive.
Read more about his mission and projects here...
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Campbell is currently living part time in LA where he runs Mindshare LA and ProjectFresh as well advise the creative engineering firm he founded, Syyn Labs. He spends one week out of each month at a cabin in the Sierras - offering a balm for LA's relentless social output and a quiet location where he's forever editing his first book - an exploration of human behaviour and futurist thought which emerges over a three month trip to South America in early 2010.
You can stay up to date on his blog or by joining his bi-monthly mailing list.
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