THINGS
DESIGN FOR KIDS
The book covers 2D and 3D graphic arts, illustrations, photography, kids play, board games, sticker and writing from over 50 worldwide renowned artists, including Hong Kong, Japan, Australia, Europe and the North Amer...
THINGS
The book covers 2D and 3D graphic arts, illustrations, photography, kids play, board games, sticker and writing from over 50 worldwide renowned artists, including Hong Kong, Japan, Australia, Europe and the North Amer...
HAPPENING
The highly anticipated yearly cinematic affair of the year is here once again. This year's Singapore International Film Festival, in it's sixteenth year running proves to entertain all with it's adverse range of films...
HAPPENING
Every March 21st, my calendar proclaims, "Today is the first day of spring!" but I find it difficult to suddenly switch my seasonal sense. However, this year spending the day of the Vernal Equinox with artist MA...
HAPPENING
ESC was held in the Allen Lambert Galleria at Toronto's BCE Place from March 10th to 21st. It was Pixel Gallery/TDAA's first major exhibition and featured works by Toronto-based and international digital artists...
PEOPLE
After their first exhibit "Contemporary" at the Museum of Latin American Art of Buenos Aires (MALBA), these members of Doma Collective talk about their views on life, their own projects and remember how everything sta...
HAPPENING
In the late 1970s, Canadian born Jeff Wall started to make carefully composed, backlit Cibachrome transparencies. Since 1991 he has used digital technology to produce panoramic photographs, often making reference to w...
HAPPENING
Pockets, where would we be without them? To mark the launch of the pocket sized Gameboy Advance SP console in the UK, Nintendo decided to hold an exhibition celebrating the history of the pocket. This you ma...
PEOPLE
Emotional sincerity charges the gear of Sao Paulo natives OSGEMEOS' art but where they come from is no candyland. The tough reality of Sao Paulo is deep in their veins where even the police shy away from hard core cri...
HAPPENING
It was Francesco Bonami (currently a senior curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago) who, some ten years ago now, described painting as a nutritional building block for a healthy visual diet. Whether you ...
PLACE
In early February, Julie Verhoeven opened her new shop GIBO in Conduit Street, off Regent Street. She is already known as an illustrator of decadent female figures with huge eyes, and has now incorporated her art into...
HAPPENING
Japanese tend to hesitate to get involved in overseas media arts and designs scenes. They think these scenes can only occur through submitting works or for business. Japan has and remains a distant country for artist...
THINGS
Many people know that Die Gestalten Verlag is an international publisher that releases many high quality design books. Do you know that the company has recently released a magazine, called "Ubersee" three times a yea...
THINGS
Demanifest is a creative book that is full of artists' original tastes in every single page. The book, produced by ex-members of Attik, Michael Spoljaric and Steve Johnston, has been released from Die Gestalten Velar...
PEOPLE
A London-based motion studio Addictive TV had VJ performances at two nightclubs Yellow and Alife in Tokyo. Not only having a VJ performance like this time, they are producing an audio visual mix DVD series "Mixmaster...
PEOPLE
"Unfortunately, a platform for a pop art is not ready yet in Hong Kong. This is why I chose Tokyo as the first place to present my Boom series. Tokyo is the place where people naturaly enjoy and sometimes accept the...
PEOPLE
A creative studio in London "Hi-ReS!" made a cover design for this issue. You might have seen their name in SHIFT many times but this is the first time to interview with them. It can be said that they are the very ...
HAPPENING
National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation is a "future place" where people can experience the forefront of scientific technology. This museum is located in Odaiba, Tokyo, one of Tokyo's more popular places, ...