The latest profile in our SF Inspired series features Lex Leifheit, Executive Director of SOMArts in San Francisco. Founded in 1979, SOMArts is a community-built space that promotes and embraces the entire spectrum of arts practice and cultural identity. What’s awesome about SOMArts is that it truly reflects the values and culture of the city.

Visit their site at http://www.somarts.org to learn more.

Here’s the next profile in our SF Inspired series – and probably one of my favorites – Bhautik Joshi, an engineer at ILM. Anyone familiar with our blog will recognize Bhautik as the guy behind the ‘Plunger Cam’ video of San Francisco. A true mad scientist, Bhautik honors the past and then forwards the whole narrative for all of us to experience in his blog, cow.mooh.org.

Click here to check out our new Orikata case for the iPad 2, shown in the video.

No one knows the streets of San Francisco better than Travis Jensen, a local street photographer and blogger for All City (formerly Caliber SF). Travis is the next creative profile in our SF Inspired series. He has no fear approaching perfect strangers to capture mesmerizing portraits throughout the city.

Check out his work along with other San Francisco street photographers at www.allcitysf.com.

Get more information on the Union Photo Messenger bag in the video here.

Inspiration can be right out your front door. At Acme Made, we were fortunate enough to have that door open to the city of San Francisco, where ideas and energy flow from every street corner.

Here’s another in our series of videos of inspiring SF creatives, this time focusing on Zack Rosen & Matt Cheney of Mission Bicycles.

Find out more about the Union Kit Messenger bag featured in this video here.

Inspiration can be right out your front door. At Acme Made, we were fortunate enough to have that door open to the city of San Francisco, where ideas and energy flow from every street corner.

A city with a history as long as your arm, San Francisco has long been home to cutting-edge creatives, innovators and entrepreneurs – daring, diverse individuals who demand premium products, thoughtfully designed. Seeking to manifest their visions with care, quality + purpose, it was this group of renegades who years ago compelled us to create protective products that lived up to their functional needs, discerning eyes, and occasionally destructive ways.

Fast forward to 2011: we are proud to showcase the folks who continue this legacy of inspiration, innovation and great design and invite you to meet a few of them in compelling video interviews on the AM blog and Acme Made Facebook pages. Come learn about the people and the passions that yank them out of bed every morning … we think they are straight-up inspiration and we’re confident that you’ll catch a glimpse of yourself (and Acme Made) in their stories.