The
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Known and appreciated for a unique taste and talent when it comes to selecting and presenting the latest trends and designs, colette is now celebrating the rebirth of analog instant photography with a unique Impossible Polaroid Camera and Impossible Film Edition. The limited colette edition pays tribute to the growing popularity of the analog in a digital world and presents the latest Impossible PX 680 Color Shade film in a unique colette designed packaging. Beyond, an original Polaroid SX 70 camera is made available, carefully re-skinned with a peculiar colette design cover. The design of both limited edition items is simple and discreet yet with a touch of colette.

An exhibition featuring Impossible artworks by Mark Borthwick, Lisa Eisner, Vava Ribeiro, Ed Templeton, Todd Selby, Matt Jones, Olivier Zahm and Terry Richardson is on dispaly at colette gallery until January 7, 2012. All contributing photographers exhibited their work in the Colette Gallery since 1997.

Impossible Film Edition

Filmtype: PX 680 Color Shade First Flush
Camera Type: Polaroid SX 70 camera, ND filter
Retail Price: 25€ / film, 540€ / camera + film
Edition Specials: Film Outer Packaging, Branded Image Frame, re-skinned Polaroid SX 70 camera
Circulation: 1000 Films, 50 Cameras
Release Date: 5 December 2011
Available at: www.colette.fr

The
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Ace reinvents the urban hotel for the people that make cities interesting. Sharing this common desire to continue, and yet reinvent, the shared experiences we all hold dear, we are excited to present this collaboration.

A vintage Polaroid camera is in your hotel room and a film pack in your mini-bar. Perhaps during your previous travels, you might have wished for such a dream team. Dream no more! Now guests at Ace Hotel New York will find a pack of Impossible x Ace Hotel PX 600 Silver Shade film in the mini-bar as well as a refurbished Polaroid camera.

Designed in the unique, analog Ace style by the designers of Atelier Ace, the PX 600 Silver Shade film is packed in a high quality box with a removable lid, making it also an ideal storage box. An accompanying booklet introduces the collaboration, the film as well as an exhibition that has been created for this occasion learn more about the gallery show "24 Hours at Ace".

The carefully refurbished Vintage Polaroid camera is packaged in a nifty box and adorned with a smile sticker. Ace and Impossible encourage you to "Explore recklessly" and "Snap frequently!"

Impossible Film Edition

Partner: ACE Hotel
Designer: Atelier Ace
Filmtype: PX 600 Silver Shade UV+
Retail Price: 24.99 US $ per pack
Edition Specials: cardboard (storage) box, 4 special edition darkslides, 100 golden ticket surprise darkslide with cool prizes
Circulation: 5000
Release Date: 9 September 2011, NYC

The
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Inspired by the new perspectives of analog instant photography, HUGE magazine decided to jump right into the analog adventure together with us and to create a special film edition. And here it is: instant KARMA - a very limited and hand assembled kit that features the current issue of HUGE magazine (featuring 24 pages packed with Impossible and the instant Karma project) as well as a special instant film edition, featuring Impossible's PX 600 Silver Shade UV+ and PX 70 Color Shade PUSH! film.

Both outer packagings of the HUGE film edition do not only feature a special HUGE design but also exclusive photography by photographer Daido Moriyama. He is one of today's most important Japanese photographers, known for his images depicting the breakdown of traditional values in post-war Japan.

Impossible Film Edition

Partner: HUGE magazine, Tokyo, Japan
Designer: Daido Moriyama
Filmtype: PX 600 Silver Shade UV+ and PX 70 Color Shade PUSH!
Retail Price: 50 EUR for a HUGE kit, feat. both films + HUGE magazine
Edition Specials: Outer Packaging, Darkslide
Release Date: 3 December 2010

Impossible Proudly Presents:
Milk X 4TH Edition

Since 2006, the Hong Kong based Milk X Magazine has always stayed in the frontline of trends. Milk is the combination of design and style, presenting todays diverse and exciting choices, concepts and ideas. Milk X magazine offers comprehensive view and knowledge of today's trends and the leaders who create them every month.

Having a real knack for stylish and exciting things, Milk X Magazine was amongst the first to be thrilled by the Impossible and the comeback of instant film for Vintage Polaroid cameras. Featuring a specially written column by the Impossible founder Florian Kaps exclusively for Milk X Magazine, it was only a question of time until we would decide to embark together on another impossible adventure of our analog venture.

Since 2006, the Hong Kong based Milk X Magazine has always stayed in the frontline of trends. Milk is the combination of design and style, presenting todays diverse and exciting choices, concepts and ideas. Milk X magazine offers comprehensive view and knowledge of today's trends and the leaders who create them every month.

For the 4th birthday of Milk X Magazine, Filip Pagowski has created a complete, unique film edition, featuring 41 individually designed outer packagings and breathtaking collector darkslides.

The
Designer

Filip Pagowski is a New York based graphic artist. He studied painting, illustration and poster design at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts and has already been working for The New Yorker, Comme des Garcons, Visionaire, Random House, Diane von Furstenberg and many others. About his work for Milk X Magazine and an Impossible Film Edition he says: “Instant photography is one of the most interesting things in the world. I'm so happy to know that analog instant photography is reborn and to be involved in keeping the legend alive."

Filip's design features 41 different interpretations of all numbers and the alphabet, exclusively designed for the Milk X Film Edition. The graphically-driven design is very close to the analog spirit of instant photography, its direct and honest and gives the Milk X Film Edition a very personal approach, not only inside but also outside.

The
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Impossible Film Edition

Partner: Milk X Magazine, Hong Kong
Designer: Filip Pagowski
Filmtype: PX 70 Color Shade FF
Retail Price: 16 EUR per pack
Edition Specials: Outer Packaging, Darkslide
Circulation: 4,444
Release Date: 16 September 2010
Release Party: 8 September 2010, Hong Kong

Our Collaboration

We are looking for inspired, determined international partners, arbiters of good taste and challengers of the Impossible who are driven to see their personal Impossible Film Edition become reality. We are looking forward to hear your concepts, ideas, visions and dreams. If all adds up we are determined to make any or all of the following possibilities possible:

1. Available Film Formats

PX 100 Silver Shade - monochrome instant film for Polaroid SX 70 cameras
PX 600 Silver Shade - monochrome instant film for Polaroid 600 cameras
PZ 600 Silver Shade - monochrome instant film for Polaroid Image & Spectra cameras
PX 70 Color Shade - color instant film for Polaroid SX 70 and 600 cameras

2. Packaging

We manufacture the complete outer packaging of the whole edition individually! This provides lots of space for individual designs and artworks, also it looks and feels breathtakingly good and is a promising beginning when opening up the single packs of your edition.

3. Darkslide

In order to create the most beautiful Instant Film ever Impossible turns the traditional darkslide (the black cartoon that the camera ejects upon entering a new film) from a functional necessity into an inspiring detail. Turn the legendary darkslide into collector cards by creating individual prints (white print on the black cartoon) or stickers that will be pasted onto the darkslide (provides more colorful options).

4. Frame

The technical term of printing on the classic, white frame is called printed mask. It allows you to decide about the design of the frame: place your design, logo, images, statements, invitations, news or announcements on the frame and do therewith frame the captured moments in your artwork.

5. Image

Last but not least we offer the magic possibility of creating a pre-exposed design within the image itself! Thanks to a special pre-exposure technique your design/ signature / message is integrated into the photo itself and will appear simultaneously with the images development. Quite enchanting!

6. Pod Stamp

Put your name or your message on the back of the frame with a simple pod stamp. Luck of the draw determines the position and what it will look like on the frame, making each frame basically unique and lending your film an even more analog and personal taste.