HAPPENING
YUMEJUYA EXHIBITION
The First Night by ADAPTER "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...
PEOPLE
TUJIKO NORIKO
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...
HAPPENING
SANTIAGO SIERRA EXHIBITION
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 traditiona...
HAPPENING
KANJIKI SNOW WALK
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-borde...
HAPPENING
SCVF 2007
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 Con...
THINGS
T-SHIRT FACTORY
T-Shirt Factory features designs selected by BEAMS T, a company that regards the T-shirt as a canvas for new ideas in art and design. In each year of its 5-year history, Beams T has invited artists from around the w...
PEOPLE
FALCO
"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 Ama...
PEOPLE
ANDRES FERNANDEZ CORDON
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 a...
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BREAD & BUTTER WINTER 07
BBKIDS introduced fashion to the kids with pret-a-porter collections and urban wear. Some brands approached their mens & womens collections to children size. Kids that are not happy with the way their parents dres...
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BREAD & BUTTER WINTER 07
FASHION brought the versatility and new designs in fashion from casual to urban elegant, new graphics, shoes and complements, with brands like: Irregular Choice, Fly London, Just for You Milano, Pussy Deluxe, Simple S...
HAPPENING
BREAD & BUTTER WINTER 07
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
HARMONICA BLDG.
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 ...
HAPPENING
GALERIE MAX HETZLER
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 scre...
HAPPENING
ALAN FLETCHER 50 YEARS
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 m...
COLETTE
COLETTE NEWS JANUARY ’07
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...
HAPPENING
DESIGN FESTA VOL. 24
"Design Festa! vol.24" was held on December 2nd (Sat) and 3rd (Sun) 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 ...
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MOTION AWARD
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 ...
