Yoshihisa Nakai (Japan)

A designer. Born in 1980. Lives in Tokyo. Working for design while producing and showing graphic art and type face at the same time. Explores loose and soft expression using original letters.

Work description:
A scenery of neighborhood. Light, sky, wind, flower, soil, water, and warmth. All the elements are mixed with, and then a good day exists.

MrMr (UK)

MrMr lives and works in Glasgow in the U.K. A Member of the creative collective CAYDNSS, he makes illustrations for people and when he is not doing that, he is trying to exhibit and mess around with animation.

Work description:
A quick illustration which was used for a club night, and I elaborated on it to create this.

Ah Yan (Hong Kong)

8She is Yan. Born in 80′ in Hong Kong. Got a Diploma of Design in IVE. Started to be a graphic designer after graduated. Love to explore something. Try to find the different method to express themselves. Believe changing is AMAZING.

Work description:
A quietly beautiful piece. “Silence” is the theme of the piece. Drew human figure. Used the thicken brush to express the strongest feeling. Colour contrast and space proportion were important for the work.

Hiroaki Yokoyama (Japan)

Born in 1977, in Okayama, Japan. After studying architecture, became a free-lance designer in 2004. Established “morld” in 2005. “morld” produces CI/Websites, illustrations, printed materials etc. based in Tokyo. He thinks people’s desire to communicate directs various activities in their lives. “I often see societies built upon empty values. Designing in such contexts, I try to reconsider the values. ‘m’orld comes from this concept: rolling over the ‘w’orld.”

Work description:
Firstly, I drew a circle as I felt good. I let the good feeling just run like water, and drew circles one right after the other in various good shapes and sizes keeping good distance from each other. Finally, I put a mark to remember the beginning of this good feeling. There are many feeling-good moments in my life. I try not to miss such moments.

Kazuhiro Kikuchi (Japan)

Born in 1974. Based in Hokkaido. Belonging to home inc. A graphic designer. Working for advertising mediums while evolving his own works throughout his original freepaper.

Work description:
A piece from a series called “early faces”. This is an “useful” graphic; after using up as a calendar, you can clip it as you like and make a mask.

Katarzyna Ambroziak-Jablonska (Poland)

She is a graphic designer, photographer and printmaking artist born in Poland. In her work she’s interested in asking questions and looking for the answers, exploring unknown areas and issues, mixing different medias and in such a way creating her own language of communication. After graduating Fine Arts Academy, several exhibitions and awards she got a Danish Government Scholarschip and studied at Denmark Design School in Kopenhagen. Later she worked for Saatchi&Saatchi Poland and Print Extra design studio designing for such comapanies as TOYOTA, ING Nationale Nederlanden, Millenium Bank, Carlsberg, Museum of Modern Art in Lodz.

Work description:
The time and space and their coexistence is the theme I try to explore in all its aspects and complexity in my fine art prints, photography and video. This work “Timespace traces 11” comes from a bigger series trying to reveal traces of the timespace…

SHIFT 2007 CALENDAR
Release: October, 2006
Spec: All colour, 28 pages, 210 x 297 mm
Price: 1,360 yen (tax included)
Produced by Shift Factory