KEN KAGAMI
Ken Kagami is a Tokyo-based contemporary multi-media artist, who creates mostly drawings and sculptures. His work doesn't shy away from controversial motifs, and his approach has already caused ripples in the art worl...
Ken Kagami is a Tokyo-based contemporary multi-media artist, who creates mostly drawings and sculptures. His work doesn't shy away from controversial motifs, and his approach has already caused ripples in the art worl...
There is a woman who has a title “Make Smile Artist”. With her strong thoughts “Make the whole world smile with makeup” and “Makeup provides entertainment”, she jumps over the pre-existed field of makeup-artist and ex...
Takuya Yonezawa, an artist who paints with oil and acrylic paint, tends to capture a motif realistically while he also expresses the sadness and funniness of the personification of motifs with no voice in a pop way. D...
Deanne Cheuk is an art director and artist based in New York. She works on various facets of design including art direction, graphics, typography, illustration, print and motion. Previously the art director of TOKION ...
After seeing it once, you cannot forget the oil paintings of Shino Hisano, the painter based in Hokkaido. Her unique use of colors and the ambiguous scenery that feels almost fluctuating, left a deep imprint in my mem...
Rie Kawakami, a sculptor based in Hokkaido, pursues unconventional expressions experimenting solid material, metals. She has been an active artist who‘s put big installation in public, participated several artist in r...
Keiko Nishiyama is a delightful young lady working as a designer. She first came to my attention through Fitflop, together with this company she designed iconic shoes some lines of which sold out very quickly. She inv...
"ayumi.mitsukane" is the ladies fashion brand established by designer Ayumi Mitsukane. Using 'throwing oneself into contemporary art' as its brand concept, this label pays close attention to the current zeitgeist in i...
Music × Modern Poetry = Poemcore? A world-first poemcore idol, "owtn.", is the leading person of girl Poemcore, taken notice by foreign countries. Even though she just debuted last summer from Internet poem core ...
A creative collective TOMATO that has always surprised us, by their creative works with innovative and rich in creativity. One of the founding member is Steve Baker (CEO). And Project Esin which he launched in 2004, w...
While influenced by skateboard culture, in a drawing of the unique style, an artist who expresses the free world that does not belong to anywhere. That is Stefan Marx. His drawing world is loved so many people. Once y...
Using the contemporary technology of interaction through video and telephones, Alex VERHAEST produces Interactive video installation. Her work "Temps mort / Idle times - dinner scene" got the New Face Award in the Art...
"Ingress" has received the Grand Prize of Entertainment Division for The 18th Japan Media Arts Festival. We could have the interview with Masashi Kawashima, a member of the team "Niantic Labs" that developed the onlin...
Do you know "Cod.Act", a unit consisting of siblings who have backgrounds as a musician and architect? The brother unit, André and Michel Décosterd was awarded Excellence Award of The 18th Japan Media Arts Festival, b...
A world of creatures in imagination. SHUUN creates images with creatures and their world hiding in daily/non-daily life as motifs. Audience is strongly attracted by the world created with overwhelming use of variou...
Damien Poulain is an art director and illustrator who has step up his career, through the work and lives in the various countries and area in Europe. We asked him about works to a wide variety and the publishing proje...
Seeing between the lines. Existence and time are keywords in the stunning work of Adam Magyar, a sincere chap living between Berlin, Hungary, New York, Tokyo and Korea, dedicated to amplify the capacity of the huma...