There was the HIGH5, a design conference organised by Hitspaper, a design web magazine, at the AXIS gallery in Tokyo on the 1st of December. This lecture hold to cheer Japanese design up like doing HIGH5.Three Jap...

DESIGN FESTA VOL. 26

2007.12.10　

26th Tokyo Design Festa was held in Tokyo Big Site. The venue was absolutely huge. If you go there with your friends and get separated form them, that's it. It's quite unlikely to see them ever again. I got lost for ...

DESIGNTIDE 2007

2007.11.21　

Now that Tokyo Designer's Week has successfully wrapped up, with the legions of designers catching flights out of Narita its time for a little rest and to sum up for those that couldn't make it. DesignTide is in it...

UNDERGROUND EXHIBITION

2007.10.22　

Adventure in the darkness created by Imagination and Science. "Underground" - a photo book by Hideaki Uchiyama has been getting attention as a remarkable way to tell the attraction of underground. Have we ever thou...

UFP EXHIBITION 2007

2007.10.11　

This exhibition, the 5th in the series, started in 2003 by ufp members who had lived in the 5 continents; America, Asia, Europe, Oceania and Africa. As its name indicates, this is a global photo exhibition named afte...

BLUE MAN GROUP IN TOKYO

2007.10.9　

Mixture of Music, Art and Comedy Quiet, mysterious and comical. A creative organization showing the rediculous but high-developed performance, Blue Man Group is finally coming to Japan. Blue Man Group is a creat...

MEDIA OPERA <H />OUR<BR />LINK

2007.10.7　

What is it that we really see? What sights are we blind to? As we stride further into a world defined by digital technologies, with an increasingly rapid flow of information, our sense and perception of reality is ...

METAMORPHOSE 2007

2007.10.5　

In the end of summer, I visited Metamorphose 2007 on Aug 25th and 26th. A great number of people attended more than ever as they celebrated 8th anniversary this year. I was wondering if this big event obtained its r...

LIFE – FLUID, INVISIBLE, INAUDIBLE …

2007.10.1　

It is nine floating square water tanks in the dark, sounds various noises, shows some visuals. "LIFE - fluid, invisible, inaudible..." is an exhibition at NTT Inter Communication Center (ICC) at Shinjuku, Tokyo...

UT GRAND PRIX 2008

2007.8.3　

It's that time of the year again! T-shirt Design Olympics, brought to you by Uniqlo! Uniqlo's annual T-shirt design competition, known as "Creative Award" since 2004, is now re-named as "UT Grand Prix" from this ye...

DESIGN FESTA VOL. 25

2007.7.1　

Design Festa recently celebrated its 25th anniversary. The festival is called ‘the biggest international art event’, so about 6000 people from 32 countries and all over Japan came to exhibit, sell and present their or...

AND A “TOMORROW’S MEMORIES”

2007.3.29　

The theme of the collection is "Re= remake various fixed ideas" And A is a select shop that presents fashion, goods, music and art. They have original items and import items mainly from Europe. They have produced m...

GRANDMA’S LOVE

2007.3.28　

Mifrel... has an incredibly mysterious sound. The first art exhibition "GRANDMA'S LOVE" in Tokyo occurred last March from the 21st to the 25th. It was launched in last year by Japanese artist Tomoaki Ryu and Taiwane...

ALEXANDER GELMAN EXHIBITION

2007.2.28　

After I went down the stairs to the gallery, it, something black, suddenly appeared. It stuck out from the ceiling, and rested in the air. There were a set of plane pieces, which could be titled black over black, in...

A NICE SET IN TOKYO

2007.2.27　

A Nice Set, a traveling art exhibit of one of a kind slip mats, opened with a party at Tokyo's Reed Space on Feb 2nd in funky and fashionable Aoyama area. The show is comprised of work by 34 artists from all over ...

YUMEJUYA EXHIBITION

2007.1.31　

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...

DESIGN FESTA VOL. 24

2007.1.27　

"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 ...