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The Irreplaceable Talent Agency × Creative Project Design Studio

I Was Born For Death Studios
New For the Olds, Life To the Death

IWBFD

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Talent Agency

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Manifesto

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Let Us Tell Your Story

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A creative agency Collective built on brand activism as a working method — not a CSR footnote.
We build and run the projects that turn Thomas Kim’s theory into action.
Part conference, part workshop, part showcase, where new projects are built and run.

Creative Agency Collective

Creative ACT

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The U.S. market, entered on purpose — not by luck.
A go-to-market service for talent and brands crossing into New York and the Tri-State.
We read the market, design the entry, and open the first doors.
From landing to traction — the first rounds of a borderless business.

Go To NY Market Service

Know it Now

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For creative-industry, sports, and entertainment talent whose first career ended too soon.
An early retirement is not the end — only the close of the first round.
We cultivate them into second-round entrepreneurs: coaching, paid projects, and management.
One hundred and one of them, grown one at a time, over twenty years.

Cultivation Program

Forest 101

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A curated shop with a cause — commerce built to stand with people hit by disaster.
We curate and sell a range of products for communities recovering from earthquakes and crises.
Every item is chosen so that a purchase becomes real support on the ground.
What was ending becomes a beginning — for the makers and the people they help.

Curated Brand Shop

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Now Featuring

bcd-W Magazine

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A bcd-W magazine reading the world's brands, commerce, and design. And the people behind each one — in the cities they dwell in.

Reborn

October 18

Curated Brand Shop

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Books

Sim Eternal City

Future City Storytelling Framework

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IWBFD Goods

We Kings T-Shirts

There are no kings since 1776 and We all are kings to celebrate Freedom 250

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Posters

Forest 101

Forest 101 is a vision poster built on one belief: "If you help people's dreams come true, your dream will come true." It pictures our dreams intertwining like trees into a single forest — a thriving ecosystem where every act of helping grows back as your own.

Discover More As a Talent

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