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

2009.8.12　 Text: Mariko Takei

"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

2009.7.28　 Text: Vicente Gutierrez

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

2009.7.22　 Text: Mariko Takei

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

2009.6.11　 Text: Wakana Kawahito

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

2009.5.29　 Text: Mariko Takei

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

2009.5.22　 Text: Mariko Takei

“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

2009.4.29　

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

2009.3.12　

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

2009.2.12　

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

2009.1.19　

“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...

KATSURA MOSHINO

2008.12.14　

Past, Present, and Future of Katsura Moshino. 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 f...

MEGUMI MATSUBARA WITH ASSISTANT

2008.10.15　

The spatial expression in a new context without a framework. Assistant develops innovative creation and broadens the realm of activity–including space composition, interior design, architecture, contemporary art, ins...

SALOTEZUMO

2008.9.30　

Salotezumo is the word that one day fell from the sky. 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...

ON ZA LINE

2008.9.29　

From Nature to Ceramics to You. 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 w...

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