HANDSOME FURS

2009.9.18　 Text: Victor Moreno

“It´s a wonderful challenge to try combine our personal life and work”. Photo: © Victor Moreno First time we met each other was in Stockholm. A few months ago the band came over with the tour of Face Control (...

VÅR

2009.9.9　 Text: Victor Moreno

Boundaries between the different disciplines of art are beginning to blur. Design, and in particular art, is hard to qualify, as its meaning and interpretation can be quite different from one person to another....

MONOBLOCK

2009.8.28　 Text: Gisella Lifchitz

Monoblock is an industry. And a real life couple with plenty of ideas and projects. They seem to be a big studio. But the biggest thing of all is their collaborative minds, which work together like a clock. The...

AUSTRIAN GREEN FASHION

2009.8.12　 Text: Daniel Kalt from AUSTRIANFASHION.NET

Green, Slow & Sustainable. Green is the new Black, Slow is the new Fast and Sustainable the new Everything. Or so we would like to hope – new tendencies in consumer behaviour don't leave out the domain of fash...

TIMOTHY SACCENTI

2009.8.12　 Text: Mariko Takei

"Garden of unearthly delights." Timothy Saccenti is a director and photographer based in New York and working worldwide. Belonged to a creative production Partizan that is well known for representing notable ta...

ZARA WOOD

2009.8.5　 Text: Waiming from Unit9

Into the dreamy “Woody” world… Inspired by overheard conversations, childhood memories and photographic books on the natural world, Zara Wood, a British-born illustrator, creates each of her illustrated drawing wit...

LUCAS BADTKE-BERKOW

2009.7.28　 Text: Vicente Gutierrez

Lucas Badtke-Berkow has been creating media in Japan for the world since the founding of his company Knee High Media in 1996. The company's first project was the now cult TOKION magazine which Lucas founded and edited...

VLADIMIRO MERINO

2009.7.27　 Text: Gisella Lifchitz

“Art is like the silence before the storm. That’s what I look for: that silence that anticipates a huge punch in the face. That’s art. This big uppercut when you’re standing still”, he says. He is Vladimiro Merino....

GUILLERMO TRAGANT

2009.7.26　 Text: Celeste Najt

Furia is the project of the talented artist/creative Guillermo Tragant. Furia has already worked for clients such as Nike, Levis, Coca Cola and much more. The formula: a mix of creativity, experimentation, world trave...

FORM US WITH LOVE

2009.7.23　 Text: Victor Moreno

Summertime is product design time. My friend Anna Stenvi introduced me for the very first time a piece from Form Us With Love, we just could say –“ They are so damn talented ! “. This studio was founded in 2005. Yo...

HITOMITOI

2009.7.22　 Text: Mariko Takei

HITOMITOI attracts many people with her clear voice. Based on her spicy life traveling around the globe during her childhood, she has produced music ever since she was a high school teen. It was in the spring 2008 whe...

WING WONG

2009.7.22　 Text: Justin Tsui

As the entire world is becoming increasingly aware, trees are one of the most important parts of life on earth. Unfortunately, wood is also one of the most important resources to humanity. A Hong Kong woodworker Wing ...

TEMPEI NAKAMURA

2009.7.17　 Text: Christal Phillips

Overlooking the rush of cars and passersby enjoying one of the first warm days of March, Tempei Nakamura has a view of it all from his grand piano in his Harlem apartment. He chose this particular room for its vie...

DAVID QUILES GUILLó

2009.7.15　 Text: Mariko Takei

The 8 years have past since ROJO® magazine was born in Barcelona and it was featured on the past issue of SHIFT. During those years it has extremely grown up not only as a magazine but also as all sorts of media and e...

KLARA G

2009.7.14　 Text: Victor Moreno

"I´m blending still life, fashion and beauty". If you are asking for the most significant expression of a colorful, romantic and artificial realism– within the Scandinavian pop culture, Klara G is the answer. ...

PERKS AND MINI

2009.7.10　 Text: Fiona Killackey

5 MINUTES WITH P.A.M. Oozing with creativity, Melbourne design duo Perks and Mini (aka Shauna T and Misha Heollenback) spend their days expanding their artistic empire with fashion, books, installations, collaborat...

JACO HAASBROEK

2009.7.6　 Text: Bertina Appel

Besides having an interesting surname, (“haas” meaning rabbit and “broek” meaning pants), Jaco Hassbroek’s name and art is spreading fast around South Africa. Born in Pretoria; Jaco now lives in Cape Town, doing priva...