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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....

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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 ...

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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...

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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...

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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. ...

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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...

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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...

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YOKO HIGASHINO

2009.6.25　 Text: Mariko Takei

"ALL LOVES YOU!" Having received many awards including the TOYOTA Choreography Award in 2004 as one of the leading choreographers in the next generation, Yoko Higashino is a contemporary dancer and choreographe...

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KIM CASCONE

2009.6.23　 Text: Shintaro Miyazaki (Institute of Algorhythmics)

We are in a post-digital era. The first time I noticed the name Kim Cascone, was maybe 8 years ago, when I researched a bit about experimental electronic music. He founded 1999 a now very big mailinglist-community ...

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KNOTAN

2009.6.18　 Text: Victor Moreno

First time I saw his photographs I found a unique and special power behind, composed by striking result. Well, his name Knotan actually means the bone of any part of the body when is visible under the skin. When I ...

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JULES JULIEN

2009.6.11　 Text: Wakana Kawahito

CADAVRES EXQUIS Jules Julien is an artist and illustrator, works in Paris, who was born in 1975. After working as a freelance art director, he started making art work, mainly drawing and design, since 2006. ...

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AUSTRIAN ACCESSORY DESIGNERS

2009.6.9　 Text: Daniel Kalt from AUSTRIANFASHION.NET

"You can never have enough hats, shoes and bags" was the advice Joanna Lumley aka Patsy Stone fed to the avid fan following of the glorious Absolutely Fabulous britcom. Indeed indeed, we feel tempted to add. So tha...

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MARIA VITTORIA BENATTI

2009.6.4　 Text: Mariko Takei

Hi! We are Pupette! Self portrait © Maria Vittoria Benatti Maria Vittoria Benatti aka hi! works as a freelance visual designer based in Modena, Italy, one hour half away from Milan by train. Her works are char...

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MAKOTO AZUMA

2009.5.29　 Text: Mariko Takei

A florist who creates punk art using plants and flowers. Makoto Azuma is an owner of the flower shop Jardins des Fleurs as well as an artist who not only explores the visual beauty of colors and shapes that are giv...