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...
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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...
MOVING WITH MOVIES
There is always should be an introduction, so let's not change this fundamental rule this time either. Here we go... MOVE WITH MOVIE is a group of young video artists who started their creative work in 2001 and no...
PETRA HART
Amsterdam-based artist Petra Hart, started the Fam.Li five years ago after designing a series of faces and suddenly realizing they were like a big family. By giving them names and characters, they took on a life of th...
DAVID FRANKLIN
When I first met David 3 years ago, he was living in a Mission District flat with a bunch of buddies. One Friday night, my friends (who already knew David) and I all showed up to his place in anticipation of a nigh...
BIG ACTIVE
Big Active, a notable design studio in London that deals with art direction, graphic design and creative management. Their field is pretty wide, having worked on CD sleeves like Basement Jaxx, publicity, fashion, leis...
DANNY BROWN
I first met Danny Brown at the Madrettor conference in Rotterdam during the fall of 2002. The first thing I remember thinking was "Holy shit, it's Danny Brown from Noodlebox"; the second being: " ...we wear the same P...
BUMSTEIN & GARBSTEIN
G-Lab aka Bumstein & Garbstein are interdisciplinary art group founded by two artists Arturas Bumsteinas and Laura Garbstiene during the exhibition Parallel Progressions 3 in the fall of 2002 in Contemporary Ar...
MENNO WITTEBROOD
We first met Menno Wittebrood during a Playstation football tournament here at PostPanic. He didn't look like the kind who could kick arse at computer games but we were wrong. We decided to find out more about the ...
SPUTNIK
Sputnik is California College of the Arts' student graphic design group. Originally established by Bob Aufuldish in the fall of 1995, the goal of Sputnik is to give a select group of graphic design students real-wo...
