TEMPEI NAKAMURA
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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PEPPER AND PISTOL
Pepper and Pistol is a womenswear label from NYC, created by Silvia Hillmann and Katrin Wiens, both born in Germany. Each season they decide on a playful theme or image rich story to base their collection and bring us...
ERIC SIU
Eric Siu, a bright young artist from Hong Kong, graduated from City University and has been teaching Media Arts for 2 years. His creative mind brought him to New York in 2007, with the support of the Asian Cultural C...
BOOGIE
Boogie is a 38 year old native of Belgrade, Serbia, who began taking photos of the civil unrest and violence that reigned in his homeland during the 1990's. After winning a Green Card in the lottery, he promptly came ...
JOE CLAUSSELL
A music producer Joaquin "Joe" Claussell. Celebrating his brand new album “Corresponding Echoes”, Joe was making a Japan tour from March to April in 2008. We had a change to interview with him asking about new album ...
CARLOS J. GóMEZ DE LLARENA
This month's Shift cover was designed by Carlos J. Gómez de Llarena. Carlos has been pursuing his creative activities under the name, med44. Gómez works on a variety of media from web-based art work to public instal...
MOGOLLON
Based in New York, Mogollon is an Art Direction, Motion Graphics, Production Design and Graphic Design studio which purely trying to enjoy their work everyday. As Mogollon means 'a lot' in Spanish slang, they are tale...
STORM THARP
“Actors play a huge roll in my work. I’ve been thinking a lot about Gloria Swanson.” Storm Tharp is a painter and sculptor living in Portland, Oregon. He enjoys distant, unfettered landscapes - and the sound of pi...
PETER SUTHERLAND
Peter Sutherland is a New York based artist who moved to the city from Colorado in 1998. After arriving and working at a vegan restaurant to get by, his "big idea" of what to really do here wasn't at first evident to ...
ANDREW SUTHERLAND
Andrew Sutherland is a self-taught artist, living and working in Brooklyn, New York. I saw Andrew's work for the first time in a small gallery on the lower east side about a year ago and liked his bold, highly graphic...
KEN BUTLER
Back in March, I moved into a 2nd floor loft apartment in Brooklyn, having been looking for a change of scenery from my last place of four years. It was only a matter of time before I heard bizarre noises coming from ...
TROLLBACK & CO.
This article in New York focuses on a Creative Design House Trollback & Co. a bicoastal creative studio whose ranks I have recently joined (now three months in). They create design for a range of disciplines, from...
SVSV
Serum vs. Venom was conceived as the antidote to the mass consumer culture that dominates the street wear market. Offering deliberate, meticulously researched and personally tailored items, SVSV is quietly taking ove...
ME MAGAZINE
Claudia Wu is a New York based graphic designer and art director. She got her start doing art direction and design at Visionaire and V Magazine followed by stints at Harpers Bazaar and Prada Beauty. I spoke with her a...
MISKA DRASKOCZY
Miska Draskoczy is a New York based designer and filmmaker. His latest film, 'Perfect Heat', is premiering this month at the San Francisco Independent FIlm Festival and his previous short, 'Golf Xpress'played at Troma...
FAILE
If you wander the streets of any metropolis in the world, you might have encountered their works unnoticed. The art group Faile is New York based creative collective who doesn't only work on street art but in various ...
MICHAEL A. DE FEO
Walking around Amsterdam, chances are you'll have seen examples of Michael A. de Feo's street art all over the city. Although a resident New Yorker, Michael is a great fan of Amsterdam and on each visit tries to leave...
