YOKO HIGASHINO
"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
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 ...
KNOTAN
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 ...
JULES JULIEN
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. ...
AUSTRIAN ACCESSORY DESIGNERS
"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...
MARIA VITTORIA BENATTI
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...
MAKOTO AZUMA
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...
JOHNNY NEON
“Let’s dance in style, let’s dance for a while” - Johnny Neon Johnny Neon was founded by Johnny Kotze about four or five years ago while experimenting on an old laptop and second-hand gear in his bedroom. Besid...
STEVE PAXTON
An experimental dancer exploring body expression with spine. Photo © Jordi Bover Steve Paxton is an experimental dancer and choreographers who developed Contact Improvisation (C.I.). He is one of the mai...
YOKO KAWAMOTO
“Landscapes that are just there”, which make an impact on the memory. Yoko Kawamoto is an illustrator who is a self taught painter that started to paint in the end of the 90’s. Up to now she has explored her career...
CASSIAN LAU
We know that Cassian Lau is a successful businessman in the local fashion world, but he thinks it’s the time to shift back to his lifetime passion – painting, and now he’s presenting himself as an artist. He started o...
CHRISTIAN MONTENEGRO
Christian Montenegro is a systematic guy. He’s so organized in his life as he is in his work. He studies everything, each detail and each fragment of our encounter as if he was planning a new illustration. His illustr...
HRUKI
“There is something beautifully musical in the flow of Murakami’s writing that mirrors our own passion for and inspiration for music”- Daniel Hampton, co-founder of Hruki Hruki (derived from the name Haruki, with the...
AKIRA NISHITAKE
The expanding and transforming mysterious world. Taking a look at the August visual on the SHIFT 2009 Calendar, you will see somewhat weird fantasy world created by Tokyo-based artist, Akira Nishitake who explores a ...
CARRIE CHAU
The inner beauty of the world. Carrie Chau, one of the well-known illustrators in Hong Kong, spreads the positive message of happiness and love by creating her lovely artwork. Her name continues to grow with her imag...
PIPILOTTI RIST
As a teenager, Elisabeth Charlotte Rist, born in Grabs (Switzerland) on 21 June 1962, decides to change her name. And thus it is Pipilotti Rist – being a combination of Lotti (her own nickname) and Pippi (the name...
AUSTRIAN WOMENSWEAR DESIGNERS
As the second part in a series of designer portraits realised in collaboration between Shift magazine and AUSTRIANFASHION.NET during the Austria-Japan-Year 2009, this article invites you to take a closer look at four ...
