FIELD

2023.6.6　 Text: Victor Moreno

FIELD is a London-based creative studio focused on the interaction between design and technology. They create digital art, especially working with physical spaces, interactive and immersive design experiences for top ...

KYOTOGRAPHIE 2023

2023.5.23　 Text: Amelia Ijiri

"Borders" is this year's theme for the annual international photography festival, KYOTOGRAPHIE, held in historically and culturally significant buildings across Kyoto from April 15th until May 14th. Now in its 11th co...

ACCIDENTALLY WES ANDERSON EXHIBITION IN TOKYO

2023.5.18　 Text: Alma Reyes

Many fans of the inventive filmmaker Wes Anderson will be delighted to step into the move-like photographic exhibition inspired by the director’s craftsmanship, “Accidentally Wes Anderson,” ongoing at the Warehouse Te...

“THE ORIGINAL” EXHIBITION

2023.4.4　 Text: Alma Reyes

Every day we live with objects, furniture, accessories and furnishings that comfort and inspire us, and at the same time influence our lifestyle and mode of thought and behavior. These objects are shaped by Design, w...

DESIGNART TOKYO 2023

2023.3.20　

DESIGNART TOKYO, the art and design festival that attracted a total of 200,000 visitors during its 10-day run last year, will be held again this year from October 20th to 29th. The theme this year is “Sparks -Free...

UNKNOWN ASIA 2023

2023.3.15　

Last year, the international art fair “Unknown Asia” was held at Grand Front Osaka with 118 creators exhibiting. This year, the fair will be back at the same venue between September 16th and 17th. ...

LOVE HULTéN

2023.3.13　 Text: Victor Moreno

Swedish product designer and mastercraftsman Love Hultén whose designs have gone viral – especially on Instagram – takes game consoles and synthesizers to the next level because of their wacky, playful personalized d...

EGON SCHIELE FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE LEOPOLD MUSEUM – YOUNG GENIUS IN VIENNA 1900

2023.3.1　 Text: Alma Reyes

There is a throng of short-lived artists who have left us legacies of astounding artworks - from the classic Raphael, Early Modern Vincent van Gogh and Amedeo Modigliani, to the 20th century Keith Haring, among many o...

ROPPONGI CROSSING 2022: COMING & GOING

2023.2.2　 Text: Alma Reyes

For the last three years since the disruption of everyday human activity caused by the COVID-19 Coronavirus pandemic, lives around the globe have been transformed drastically, whether in positive or negative ways. The...

KARL GRANDIN

2023.2.2　 Text: Victor Moreno

Swedish artist and entrepreneur Karl Grandin is a good old friend of SHIFT who together with Björn Atldax collaborated with us for our curated monthly cover while working at their former design studio Vår back in 2009...

BARBARA KRUGER “THINKING OF Y̶O̶U̶. I MEAN M̶E̶. I MEAN YOU”

2023.1.16　 Text: Victor Moreno

American contemporary pop artist and collagist Barbara Kruger (b.1945) has developed her own style of art by combining poetry and politics with an advertising or propaganda vibe – recognizable from its bold declarativ...

UNKNOWN ASIA 2022

2023.1.13　 Text: Taketo Oguchi

Unknown Asia, Asia's largest art fair for artists, was held at the Grand Front Osaka Congress Convention Center on October 15th and 16th, 2022. This year was the 8th edition of the event and it happened for 3 days inc...