ANDREA CREWS

2011.11.29　 Text: Shotaro Okada

"Andrea Crews" is a fashion brand which also embodies activism in Paris; it is fashion and a statement about fashion. In Paris it is well known for being at the heart of current trends, while also being a popular casu...

KATHY GRAYSON

2011.11.11　 Text: Julio Cesar Palacio from Panopttic

I first meet Kathy when she was working at Deitch Projects Gallery a few years ago… it was briefly cause they were organizing the Amazing Art Parade project and also a big exhibition called "Mail Order Monsters"… I wa...

SUSAN BBIJL MARIA JOBSE

2011.11.6　 Text: Gas As Interface Co., Ltd

Susan Bijl, the designer of the most well known eco bag "The New Shoppingbag", has just started her new label in collaboration with fashion creator Maria Jobse called "SUSAN BIJL MARIA JOBSE". SHIFT has interviewed ...

YASUSHI HORI

2011.11.1　 Text: Ayaka Sato

Following his 2009 entry, Yasushi Hori's work has once again been selected to this years DOTMOV. His works are humorous and unique in some way, as they sometimes remind us to renew our understanding of Japanese identi...

YOSHINARI NISHIO

2011.10.17　 Text: Yuko Miyakoshi

Contemporary artist, Yoshinari Nishio, unfolds the projects which refer to the relationship between fashion and communication with the cooperation of local residents, students and his family. He was born in Nara in 19...

NEASDEN CONTROL CENTRE

2011.10.6　 Text: Noriyuki Abe

There are many different kinds of work by Neasden Control Centre. Every line of illustration, the typography, and patterns were handmade by him. Sometimes he fabricates a collage with cut outs from photographs and or ...

ANRI SALA

2011.9.29　 Text: Victor Moreno

Absolut blur the boundaries between arts and marketing. The Absolut Art Award, in its third annual edition, celebrates they long-term commitment to creativity. This year´s winner is the Albanian-born video artist Anri...

ROLLAND BERRY

2011.9.29　 Text: Wakana Kawahito

Andy Warhol is synonymous with pop art. Rolland Berry, a street artist from Los Angeles, has been working actively as one of the third generation of Andy Warhol. His pieces are very colorful and challenging, and have ...

KALIL LLAMAZARES

2011.9.21　 Text: Gisella Lifchitz

“Art is something that happens to you”, Kalil says with a convinced tone. “One of my first memories is making collages with a friend at the age of 3. I still remember the happiness I felt while doing it”He who talks i...

FILIPPA K

2011.9.14　 Text: Victor Moreno

Since Filippa Knutsson founded the brand in the early nineties, Filippa K has established a concept pioneer ambassador for the Scandinavian fashion style – clean design for modern times, so to speak. She is the Creat...

YURINA KAWAGUCHI

2011.8.31　 Text: Asami Miyachi

She worked at a company as a planner and press manager in the early 90's and then worked at Slant Wide as a designer. Now Yurina Kawaguchi takes on the apparel line 20,000,000 Fragments as the designer for the collect...

KEVIN AZZOPARDI

2011.8.31　 Text: Memi Mizukami

Kevin Azzopardi is an oslo based menswear designer with conceptual take on the manufacturing process of fashion. Azzopardi earned his bachelor degree in fashion design from the royal melbourne institute of technology ...

BENJAMIN GROSSER

2011.8.30　 Text: Memi Mizukami

Now, the street is full of technology. We are surprised everyday to a new technology. But sometime we wondering what the technology will be? Benjamin Grosser is an artist and composer working in USA. He search for so...

SHINTARO UCHINUMA

2011.8.14　 Text: Yuko Miyakoshi

Born in 1980. Shintaro Uchinuma is a representative of *numabooks*. He displays books in unordinary and impressive way. His title is not only a book coordinator, also editor, producer and facilitator and so on. His re...

HENRIK NORSTRöM

2011.8.10　 Text: Victor Moreno

“Don’t be surprised if we put the final touches to your meal directly at your table.” Henrik Norström is one of the youngest examples in the current Nordic culinary arena. Due to Lux – his restaurant located n...

CSS

2011.8.3　 Text: Victor Moreno

In 2007 they charted at #63 Billboard, due to a student called Nick Halley, who used the song “Music Is My Hot Hot Sex” for a home made iPod commercial published in YouTube, which Apple executives decided to remake fo...

SHOHEI TAKASAKI

2011.7.31　 Text: Noriyuki Abe

Shohei Takasaki is an artist living and working in Tokyo. His paintings are characterized by vivid and jumping colors, lines and surfaces. The portraits appearing on the canvas are interpreted as the artist himself an...