HIRAKU SUZUKI

2008.10.31　 Text: Mariko Takei

Hiraku Suzuki has been working on a series of drawings including wall paintings, leaf-vein drawings, asphalt drawings, live paintings with earth, and etc. His drawings visualize something that emerges to the surface, ...

FEDERICO URDANETA

2008.10.30　 Text: Waiming

“I went to a college in Colombia for comparative literature, something that was not so related to what I did for a living in the beginning. After graduating, I decided to move to Big Apple (New York), where I went to ...

MEGUMI MATSUBARA WITH ASSISTANT

2008.10.15　 Text: Mariko Takei

Assistant develops innovative creation and broadens the realm of activity–including space composition, interior design, architecture, contemporary art, installation, graphic design—widely anywhere in the world, as if ...

KARIN HOFKO

2008.10.14　 Text: Yurie Hatano

Following to Salotezmo, this month's another cover collaboration with Shift Calendar artists is a German media artist living in New Zealand, Karin Hofko aka KIR ROYAL. Enjoy her cover work and the following interes...

NADèGE WINTER

2008.10.10　 Text: Mariko Takei

Nadège Winter used to be a head PR for colette for the past 6 years. She lives in Paris and now owns her own company as a creative director and an event consultant. She is also a producer, a programmator, a designer, ...

SALOTEZUMO

2008.9.30　 Text: Yurie Hatano

12 winning works for SHIFT 2009 CALENDAR was finally announced. This month's SHIFT cover features 2 creators from those selected artists. The one for the first half of October is a Tokyo based young artist Salotezum...

ON ZA LINE

2008.9.29　 Text: Vicente Gutierrez

ON ZA LINE make beautiful ceramic works that delicately mimic and reflect nature’s subtle forms and functional qualities. So far, ON ZA LINE have produced three unique collections of works which have been sought after...

LY

2008.9.29　 Text: Kazumi Oiwa

Twinkly, transient, and heartrending...flabby black and white creatures. Ly draws fantastic creatures which live in her inner world. The characteristic of her drawing is transient view of the world. Freakish creatu...

CHEUNG LIK

2008.9.29　 Text: Justin Tsui

After a few years working in a wide range of design fields, the new fashion talent Cheung Lik has decided to start her own brand – “wear-and-tear” this year. She has taken the craft of knitting to the next level and i...

LEO OBSTBAUM

2008.9.23　 Text: Yurie Hatano

The graphic identity and pictograms for the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games are unveiled this September. The Vancouver 2010 graphic identity features many illustrated textures drawn from Canada’s n...

LUCILA BODELóN

2008.9.16　 Text: Gisella Lifchitz

Lucila Bodelón has many pockets and they’re all full of gifts. She has pockets in her dress and in her house. All of her cameras have them also. Her skies, her landscapes and the little books. The portraits and swe...

YOSHIHIDE OTOMO

2008.9.16　 Text: Mariko Takei

Yoshihide Otomo, who has been around all over in the fields such as free jazz, impromptu live session, noise music, modern music, electronic music, film soundtrack. His exhibit "ENSEMBLES" which opened at Yamaguchi ...