CHARLES TSUNASHIMA

2014.6.28　 Text: Antoine Revoy

Charles Tsunashima is a French/Japanese multidisciplinary designer, notably active in the fields of interior architecture, furniture and product design. His work is renowned for its exquisite craftsmanship and sophist...

YASUTOSHI EZUMI

2014.5.26　 Text: Mike Sullivan

Yasutoshi Ezumi has previously worked for Alexander McQueen and as a knitwear designer for Aquascutum, and he studied for his BA at Central Saint Martins in London. His latest collection was inspired by Eames House, a...

EA

2014.5.26　 Text: Setsuko Hori

EA is duo Maika Leboutet and Shinya Saito. The two artists seem to capture sounds from every possible place and time, as if they were in an experimental laboratory. By combining these sounds, blending together interna...

YUKI YAMATO

2014.5.26　 Text: Eri Yamauchi

“That Girl Is Dancing by the Seaside / Ano ko ga Umibe de Odotteru” is Yamato's debut work which received a special judges' prize at the Tokyo Student Film Festival, and set attendance records day after day during its...

KAN YASUDA

2014.5.7　 Text: Mike Sullivan

Kan Yasuda is originally from Bibai in Hokkaido and studied at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome. He has a studio in Pietrasanta in nothern Italy and in Japan...

LEE RANALDO

2014.5.7　 Text: Victor Moreno

The 33rd "Greatest Guitarist of All Time" according to Rolling Stone magazine, Lee Ranaldo is a creative mind in a constant state of experimentation. Like his bandmates in Sonic Youth, his collaborative spirit can’t g...

KEN + JULIA YONETANI

2014.4.25　 Text: Rafael de Lima

Japanese-Australian artist duo/couple Ken + Julia Yonetani display an uncanny sensibility in their artworks. By successfully bringing together their environmental and socio-political concerns with a sophisticated sens...

ZHOU CHUNYA

2014.4.15　 Text: Hiromi Nomoto

When you look at the artworks of Zhou Chunya, they let us wake up to the nature of things. Zhou Chunya is an artist who was born in Chongqing, China in 1955. He graduated from the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute in 198...

HORACIO PETRE

2014.3.23　 Text: Gisella Lifchitz

Horacio Petre is a passionate illustrator. And apart from being a great translator of the world that surrounds him, Petre (as he likes to call himself), is someone completely aware of every little details that come be...

ASAKO SHIROKI

2014.2.23　 Text: Setsuko Hori

Since May 2013, Japanese artist Asako Shiroki has been an artist in residence at Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin. Bethanien is based in Kreuzberg, a suburb of Berlin located south of the city centre and a place where...

SOICHIRO MIHARA

2014.2.8　 Text: Satsuki Miyanishi

There might not be that many people who have taken time to consider the many bubbles around us, such as those that we played with in the bathtubs of our childhood, those in a fluffy meringue, or those in beer. At the ...

ANDREAS GREUSSLICH

2014.2.8　 Text: Kiyohide Hayashi

Why is Berlin famous and seen as one of the major centers of contemporary art? I think the reason is because there are so many galleries in Berlin that attract many artists and art people. Now that Berlin has reached ...

HUNTSVILLE

2014.1.30　 Text: Ayumi Yakura

A 1999 silent movie "white petals (Original title: Juha)" directed by a film director Aki Kaurisumaki, respected in the world of art film, will be on screen with improvised live music by Huntsville in February 1st in ...

IINA VUORIVIRTA

2014.1.23　 Text: Mike Sullivan

Iina Vurorivirta is from Finland and this year she was Design Forum Finland’s Young Designer of the Year 2013. She has been exhibiting internationally since 2010 and her work encompasses an impressive range of materia...

JAKOB MIELCKE

2014.1.8　 Text: Louise Brandstrup Zastrow

Chef by chance, cooking with intuition and sees the exchange of ideas and creation with other craftsmen as extremely giving and meaningful... Jakob Mielcke was born in Aarhus, Denmark, in 1977. He has worked with grea...

MODEMENT

2013.12.12　 Text: Kanae Tamase

We can rarely find the clothes that meet both male and female desire perfectly. But here “MODEMENT” can satisfy those people loves unisex, gender neutral looks. “MODEMENT” is a Hong Kong’s fashion brand that carries a...

MOUNTAIN YAM

2013.10.28　 Text: Kanae Tamase

Fashion brands from Hong Kong have livened up recently. One of them is Mountain Yam, which the designer named the brand after his nickname from high school, eveningwear couture brand for celebrities. It was chosen as ...