HAPPENING
The idea of art on streets isn't something new. It's been around for decades, if not centuries. In cities like New York, you can't a walk a street without seeing something on the sides of the street - graffiti (which ...
HAPPENING
I'm starting to hear the term "Young Gun" more and more these days. The Art Directors' Club in New York holds a bi-annual award show that celebrates the talent in design and advertising under the age of 30. The openin...
HAPPENING
The 83rd Art Director's Club Annual Award Show is on view at the ADC Gallery in New York City. The Art Director's Club, also known as the ADC, is a rather prestigious organization for creatives in the design and adver...
HAPPENING
A few weeks ago, I got somewhat of an exclusive, "invitation-only" e-mail message in my inbox. It was from Res, the digital filmmaking magazine. By now, Res has become a household name among designers and independent ...
PLACE
There is something intriguing and peculiar about a phrase "dessert design". It's not a phrase that you come across everyday. Being a designer myself, it definitely intrigued me the first time when I encountered these...
PEOPLE
On one Friday night, I get a phone call from a friend asking me if I want to stop by a gallery opening. I ask him what the show was and he tells me, "Oh, some drawings and illustrations." Nothing particular to do that...
HAPPENING
It was a bit after 4 o'clock in the afternoon. I had stepped out of my work office to run some errands and was about to go back into the building. As I walked through the doorway, all the lights in the building seemed...
THINGS
Spending $250 on a magazine is an absurd idea. Even $100 is too much. Yet, several times a year, Visionaire, a magazine known for its luxurious designs, manages to be in high demand publication after publication even ...
HAPPENING
I have to admit, as someone who lives in New York, that I don't go to museums that often. Just to name art and design museums, there are a handful of them that I can think of: Guggenheim Museum, Metropolitan Museum of...
HAPPENING
I have been writing Shift since 1999 and there have been very few times that I wrote about something not related to art, design or culture. In fact, the only time that I wrote about such news was September of 2001. An...
PLACE
The month of November marks the end of autumn and the beginning of the holiday season. The holiday season, to many people, means gathering of families, getting some rest. On the surface, that is. But in reality,...
THINGS
The culture of free magazines - printed magazines, that is - is something of a thriving phenomenon. Most of the magazines you open nowadays are covered with advertising. In magazines such as Vogue and Wired, clo...
