HAPPENING
Scherzo expresses the "laughter" in daily life, humorously putting music and narration on an image or an illustration. Recently, the scherzo world came to Soso Cafe. Scherzo organized by Masaki Kagajo has two...
HAPPENING
The first live showcase in Sapporo for Progressive Form, which became the Japanese representative independent record label for supporting various new electronic sounds and scenes since 2000, was held at Soso Cafe. ...
HAPPENING
"CQ" exhibition was held at Ex'ream, a cafe in Harajuku. CQ is a community that creates visual contents that have a "new value" using the next generation's mobile tools. Twelve artists were invited from New York, Los ...
HAPPENING
November 25th, 6 a.m. As dawn breaks on a cold morning, twenty beams of bright white lights that had been intersecting above suddenly rise together towards the sky, before disappearing just as abruptly. The finale for...
THINGS
Shift's 2004 Calendar is now ready. The aim of the calendar project was to provide up-and-coming creators a calendar as a medium to let them express their creativity. We invited all Shift readers to submit works for t...
THINGS
23 fairy tales are lovingly illustrated by Die Gestalten favourites. Gestalten is well known for publishing artistic books with an interesting theme. Childhood friends such as Hansel and Gretel or Cinderella are featu...
PEOPLE
A cover design of this month is designed by Takeshi Murata whose work was selected by one of judges, the Designers Republic in DOTMOV festival held in November. Although his animation is plane, it has made special spa...
PLACE
Do you know the mole Krtek? Krtek was born in 1957 in Czechoslovakia, a country with a long history in the animation world. Recently the DVD Box was released which has been received so well that it has already sold ou...
HAPPENING
Like the other regions, Hong Kong Art Biennial Exhibition, which is an exhibition that showcases artworks selected from an open competition, aims at providing the platform to showcase the local artistic practices and...
PLACE
Situated on the Eerste Constantijn Huygensstraat, the former Jan Swammerdam Institute (JSI) looks sort of sleepy from the outside but inside there is a veritable hive of activity, this being the home of SMART Project ...
PEOPLE
It's a cold rainy afternoon and I enter the traditional bar 36 Billares in Buenos Aires downtown. He's there, sitting at one of the tables, close to the window and just before I come in, he gazes at his watch with a s...
PLACE
Zurich/Switzerland is not just birthplace of the Dada Art movement but an important place for the world domination of the classic constructivist graphic design (think Helvetica and the grid system) and home for many s...
