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YUMEJUYA EXHIBITION
"Such a Dream was Seen". A sketch "Yume Jyuya" by Soseki Natsume is the ten talks of the dream that Soseki once looked. A story of the woman who says already dies from graceful eyes, and a story of Unkei (A famous...
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"Such a Dream was Seen". A sketch "Yume Jyuya" by Soseki Natsume is the ten talks of the dream that Soseki once looked. A story of the woman who says already dies from graceful eyes, and a story of Unkei (A famous...
PEOPLE
Tujiko Noriko, A princess of the experimental pop/sound world, gaining an international reputation after several releases from major indie labels. She is based in Paris, and has also received high praise from the musi...
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Two new projects from the Santiago Sierra: "The Anarchists" (Los Anarquistas) is based on a performance that the Spanish artist had realised in Rome with eight militant anarchists hired to listen to the traditional Ch...
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In Sapporo, cold is the severest February. I can say at the same time it is the month that is full of events. Scheduled to hold "Sapporo Snow Festival" to enjoy a image in snow, and "Toyota Big Air" which snow-borders...
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The second Shizuoka Contents Valley Festival (SCVF) was held in a calm local city, Shizuoka. This event exhibits and screens high level works by world-leading designers and creators. SCVF is held by Shizuoka Co...
PEOPLE
"Drah di net um oh oh oh - schau schau der Kommissar geht um oh oh oh." Is this abacadabra to you - or does it make any sense? And what about this phrase: "Amadeus Amadeus Amadeus Amadeus Amadeus Amadeus Amadeus Amade...
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They say you find things when you're not looking for them. In this case, this is completely true. I don't know what led me to the Internet that night but I surely know what kept me there, cruising for a long while as ...
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The Tradeshow leader in Europe in modern fashion culture presented the colections for Winter 07 in Barcelona. Once again, the best fashion brands, established as well as upcomming designers, coolhunters, fashion edito...
PEOPLE
This month's SHIFT cover was designed by a Sapporo based design unit Harmonica bldg. Their works are not only cute or only pop, but are filled with playful spirits. One of their works was selected as a winning work of...
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This month, I will introduce some art works that caught my eye at various galleries I visited. First, is a young Brazilian video artist Marcellvs L. When I stepped in the middle of the exhibition I saw a huge scr...
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It can happen on such a small space, like post card size, rather business card size paper. It is consisted by line, shape, color and space. what a simple matter it is made of. When you think of graphic design, you may...
COLETTE
Former Aussie and now try-hard Parisien writer Linlee Allen wholly confesses to being the "all-round groupie" of concept store colette, located in the French capital. Having participated in the world-famous boutique's...
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"Design Festa! vol.24" was held on December 2nd and 3rd at Tokyo Big Sight. This big event with more than 6,000 artists and 2,600 booths has been introduced several times on Shift. This time, I would like to introduce...
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An innovative animation tool, Flash already marks its 10th anniversary now. Flash has been developed especially in the web field, and now there are not many websites which don't have Flash. Also, it doesn't stay only ...
PEOPLE
This month's SHIFT cover was designed by Martin Lorenz, a founder of Twopoints.Net based in Barcelona. As a start of year 2007, SOSO will hold his exhibition of his project called "The One Weekend Book Series" during ...