JOE COLOMBO
The show "Inventing the future", a collaboration between La Triennale di Milano and the Vitra Design Museum, is dedicated to the life and the work of Joe Colombo, one the key figures in the history of Italian desig...
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JAMSEN LAW
It is only natural that video has emerged as a dominant medium for artists in Hong Kong. In a city where most young artists still live with their parents in tiny flats, and can't afford studio space or physical mat...
YOFFY
As a young artist, Los Angeles based Yoffy has already grasped the basics of making it in the fickle art business. With a short, one word name, Yoffy has already become a brand, a label that sticks to his sleek, mi...
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 fr...
WABISABI
"WABISABI", a design unit, whose stronghold is in Sapporo just same as SHIFT, did the SHIFT cover this month. You may know they released their original card game "CROW&TRASH" from SHIFT Factory before. This July, ...
JOSIE SYKES
Amsterdam is often described as a small town rather than a big city and this ring trues when you start recognizing faces at various events. Photographer Josie Sykes (31) is one of those people I was introduced to a...
MARGARET KILGALLEN
t was a scene at the opening of Margaret Kilgallen grand retrospective at the Redcat Gallery in downtown L.A. The contrast couldn't have been greater: the outside of the gallery a metal object (the famous Gehry des...
TROLLBACK & CO.
The design area of the New York office This issue of InfoWorld in New York focusses on a Creative Design House Trollback & Co. a bicoastal creative studio whose ranks I have recently joined (now three months in...
HORT
In this Shift issue, Eike and Martin from "Hort", a design studio in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, designed the cover. Their design, which is unique and has a sense of humor, is well known in German music industry. They...
NINA BRAUN
When in 2004, german artist Nina Braun left the streetwear-company SUMO, which the skateboarder started in 1998 to set a contrast to the all-male-dominated skater world, she re-focused on her art, taking the imagery...
JEREMY FISH
I remember first meeting Jeremy Fish in the Think Skateboards Art Department a handful of years ago. He was designing graphics for them and I was a struggling freelance designer, working for a now defunct skateboar...
KATYA BONNENFANT
This month's cover is done by a French designer Katya Bonnenfant whose designs are cute and powerful. Searching for "strange" things or ideas, she creates music, animation, videos, and more in a vigorous way. Mak...
TAKORA KIMIYOSHI FUTORI
This month's cover is designed by TAKORA Kimiyoshi Futori, who is a visual creator and well-known to SHIFT for his collaboration with Chisato Shinya. He has offered his visuals to a picture book Andersen (Die Gerstalt...
NOME EDONNA
Last Saturday night, the doors of Double Punch (one of the City's coolest places to buy toys, merchandise and art) were opened for the reception of NoMe: Urban Surrealism. Outside the rain soaked the streets and...
BLESS
It's a remarkable case of two great minds thinking alike, when Desire Heiss and Ines Kaag, both from Germany, teamed up in 1996 to create their seminal fashion label BLESS, which has become internationally acclaimed t...
BOB SANDERSON
The person who has taken charge of the cover design for this edition is Bob Sanderson who used to be a chief designer of The Designers Republic and established his own studio in 2004. We interviewed him and discussed...
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...
