HAPPENING
GACHA PARCO
Do you know a machine which is commonly known as 'Gacha Gacha'? This is a vending machine which can be found at toy shops or supermarkets with full of small toys in capsules. The origin of the word Gacha Gacha is th...
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Do you know a machine which is commonly known as 'Gacha Gacha'? This is a vending machine which can be found at toy shops or supermarkets with full of small toys in capsules. The origin of the word Gacha Gacha is th...
PLACE
The Integer Hong Kong Pavillion is a special event in Hong Kong. Why is it so special? Hong Kong is a city that has limited concept of green. People are living with all kinds of pollution everyday. In the downtown of ...
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Worms Festival? You must be wondering; a festival where different types of worms are celebrated? Definitely not for the faint hearted, but the Worms Festival is actually a multi-disciplinary annual art festival compri...
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'Neo-Tokyo: Japanese Art Now' presents the work of a generation of contemporary Japanese artists who have come to prominence, within their own country and abroad, during the second half of the 1990s. Predominantly bor...
THINGS
Dutch artist and fashion designer Simon de Boer has created a new collection of "rags" based on the ancient principles of the Cynics. His brand is called W.M.E.V.V.J., Wees Meester En Vormgever Van Jezelf (loosely tra...
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The Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia is a must for all those who are interested in the most avant-garde contemporary art. The third floor of the Museum houses an exhibition where the best works of one of the ...
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At Castello di Rivoli, curator and gallery owner Jeffrey Deitch has put together the exhibition "Form Follows Fiction". Twenty international artists give body and voice to aesthetic worlds in which it is no longer pos...
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Guimet Museum is known to be a the museum with a great collection of Oriental art. Various types of important works from China, Japan, South Korea and other Aisan countries have been placed from the basement floor to...
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A Digital festival "WHAT DO YOU WANT TO DO WITH IT?" is held in ICA (Institute of Contemporary Art). 10 computers and 10 chairs are displayed in a small room of about four mat half that exists in ICA. When I...
PEOPLE
There are two diseases that many designers nowadays are haunted with: the "cool" and the "how." The reason why they are troubled by those diseases is that their brain system lacks the "what." Designers are so concerne...
PEOPLE
The cover of this month was designed by Moccu, a young design agency based in Berlin, Germany which is run among others by Jens Schmidt. He also is the creator of the Yenz.com and its highly frequented secret garden....
THINGS
After having established its reputation as guide to the weird and wonderful world of contemporary design, the berlin-based graphic design e-zine Designershock now has brought out their first book, published by "Die Ge...
HAPPENING
In 1785, the British philosopher Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832), began working on a plan for a model prison called the panopticon. The signature feature of this design was that every one of the individual jail cells could...
PEOPLE
Dream Interactive, a Budapest-based design company, has recently been voted one of the Top Ten agencies of Hungarian webdesign. As a netgeneration company, they have developed a new approach for helping clients enteri...
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Photo: Shinzi Hagiuda from SSS
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Photo: Shinzi Hagiuda from SSS
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Photo: Shinzi Hagiuda from SSS