SUPER NATURE

2008.12.25　 Text: Kazumi Oiwa

Things you never get tired of; one of them could be Nature. The interaction between Nature and Nature, or People and feelings is a significant aspect of our life. It is not as simple as it may seem to represent it to ...

SEBA IBARRA

2008.12.21　 Text: Gisella Lifchitz

The first time I saw songwriter Seba Ibarra was on Pecha Kucha night Volume 11 at Ciudad Cultural Konex. He came on stage with just a guitar, and he just sang. It was a song about a river, a river he always sings to. ...

WONG TIN YAN

2008.12.18　 Text: Justin Tsui

Some may find junk wood useless, but Wong Tin Yan surely finds its natural beauty and turns it into a zoo of funny looking creatures with his own tricks. Wong uses the junk wood that he digs up from industrial areas a...

KATSURA MOSHINO

2008.12.14　 Text: Kazumi Oiwa

Katsura Moshino is an intriguing artist to listen and talk to about the state of graphic design or illustration. Having worked on videos and products since the 80s with free use of illustration, he has had a major imp...

PATO ARCHITEKTUR

2008.12.8　 Text: Juan Carlos Fuentes

PAto Architektur was functioning for more than 4 years as an independent architecture firm. But in September 2008 the two young architects Maria del Pilar (Santo Domingo 1980) and Julio César Palacio (Valencia 1977) d...

ESQUE GLASS STUDIO

2008.12.2　 Text: delilah.loves.you

Green products made by recycled glass that adds a value to the piece. Blob Bowl White w/ Turquoise, Blue or Ruby / 7”W / $600 / 2008 Within my 5 minutes of (miraculously) finding the meet-up location, I was w...

KUSTAA SAKSI

2008.11.30　 Text: Mariko Takei

The Shift cover for December is created by Kustaa Saksi. As you might have seen his artworks once before, his creation bears the aesthetic aspects of psychedelic and bizarre characteristics, which make a strong impact...

SCAM CIRCLE

2008.11.30　 Text: Kazumi Oiwa

Many images flashback through my head as I listened to their music for the first time. A Sapporo based band, Scam Circle, was formed in 2006, with lead music composer, Koji Mizuno, a drummer, Masaki Hori, and a bassis...

NAOHITO UCHIYAMA

2008.11.22　 Text: Mariko Takei

After an absence of 6 years since his first album “Directions” released from Tha Blue Harb Recording, Naohito Uchiyama, a Sapporo-based music producer/DJ, has been making a tremendous progress as it has been appeared ...

BRUNO DICOLLA

2008.11.14　 Text: Yurie Hatano

The second part of this month's cover will feature Bruno Dicolla, whose selected work for DOTMOV 2008 has been now showing at the festival around the globe. Based in São Paulo, Brazil, Bruno Dicolla is an artists whos...

PIERRE VANNI

2008.11.9　 Text: Asami Miyamura

As a graphic designer based in France, Pierre Vanni has been implementing diverse activities of not only 2D creations but also 3D and 4D including the paper sculpture, the combination of the paper sculpture and graphi...

OVERTURE

2008.11.6　 Text: Yurie Hatano

DOTMOV FESTIVAL 2008 has been started worldwide from November, 2008. One of the selections is "Bryum & Kapok: A Memory" that was produced by Overture, a creative team by Jason and Aya who are based currently in th...