PMKFA
"I rather have a body of work that speak for itself than a specific style". The cover design for February was created by PMKFA, who is originally from Sweden and is now based in Tokyo, creating diverse works for va...
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PAUL JAMES
VANITY has been the ideal party to the artists, models and hipsters of Tokyo since 2004 and with a guest list filled with internationally renowned bands and fashion designers, it has become the place to be. This inter...
NATSUKI ARAI
An emerging creator who depicts opposites and inconsistencies with analog and digital styles. The very first cover design for SHIFT 2010 is a work by Natsuki Arai who has worked on the visual for the last page ...
FUGAHUM
"FUGAHUM" a kingdom that creates a new concept. FUGAHUM is a keen fashion brand started in 2006 by Akiyoshi Mishima, an artist and previously worked as an art director at Enlightenment until last July, and a fashio...
TAISHI NOBUKUNI
Known for his brands BOTANIKA and TAISHI NOBUKUNI, the fashion designer Taishi Nobukuni explores his creativity with high quality tailoring, attracting people with his overwhelming presence as a designer. Having studi...
NANOOK
The NANOOK's world of dark and sweet imagination. SHIFT 2010 Calendar was released on October 20th! The Shift cover for November was designed by a Tokyo-based artist NANOOK whose work was selected for the calendar ...
CHINZA DOPENESS
Attracting people's attention by his unique music style and reliable performance techniques, Chinza Dopeness launched his first solo album, "100%RAP" on 16th of September, 2009. All songs for the album were made in co...
TIMOTHY SACCENTI
"Garden of unearthly delights." Timothy Saccenti is a director and photographer based in New York and working worldwide. Belonged to a creative production Partizan that is well known for representing notable ta...
LUCAS BADTKE-BERKOW
Lucas Badtke-Berkow has been creating media in Japan for the world since the founding of his company Knee High Media in 1996. The company's first project was the now cult TOKION magazine which Lucas founded and edited...
HITOMITOI
HITOMITOI attracts many people with her clear voice. Based on her spicy life traveling around the globe during her childhood, she has produced music ever since she was a high school teen. It was in the spring 2008 whe...
JULES JULIEN
CADAVRES EXQUIS Jules Julien is an artist and illustrator, works in Paris, who was born in 1975. After working as a freelance art director, he started making art work, mainly drawing and design, since 2006. ...
MAKOTO AZUMA
A florist who creates punk art using plants and flowers. Makoto Azuma is an owner of the flower shop Jardins des Fleurs as well as an artist who not only explores the visual beauty of colors and shapes that are giv...
YOKO KAWAMOTO
“Landscapes that are just there”, which make an impact on the memory. Yoko Kawamoto is an illustrator who is a self taught painter that started to paint in the end of the 90’s. Up to now she has explored her career...
AKIRA NISHITAKE
The expanding and transforming mysterious world. Taking a look at the August visual on the SHIFT 2009 Calendar, you will see somewhat weird fantasy world created by Tokyo-based artist, Akira Nishitake who explores a ...
SEAL
The tire has a destiny to end up as waste, but there is a new future for the tire...to be reborn as SEAL. SEAL is a product brand which finds different possibilities for materials that will inevitably be discarded by...
KAWAMURA HIDEO ACTIVITY
Design is Love. Design is Poison. Design is Reality. Design is Happiness. Design is Living. Kawamura Hideo Activity participates actively in various fields. The work of Hideo Kawamura, the designer/founder of Ka...
AU LAIT
“Sweet dreamy fluffy world for little girls”. There is a cute and sweet world that every girl has dreamed of. It stays somewhere in our hearts and sometimes makes us excited even after we grow up. The “au lait”, an...
