It's that time of the year again! T-shirt Design Olympics, brought to you by Uniqlo! Uniqlo's annual T-shirt design competition, known as "Creative Award" since 2004, is now re-named as "UT Grand Prix" from thi...

DESIGN FESTA VOL. 25

2007.7.1　 Text: Naoko Wowsugi

Design Festa recently celebrated its 25th anniversary. The festival is called ‘the biggest international art event’, so about 6000 people from 32 countries and all over Japan came to exhibit, sell and present their or...

VIRGINIE LAVEY “TOMORROW’S MEMORIES”

2007.3.29　 Text: Naoko Wowsugi

And A is a select shop that presents fashion, goods, music and art. They have original items and import items mainly from Europe. They have produced many collaborative items with various designers and artists. Also, t...

MIFREL “GRANDMA’S LOVE”

2007.3.28　 Text: Yuhei Kikuchi

Mifrel... has an incredibly mysterious sound. The first art exhibition "GRANDMA'S LOVE" in Tokyo occurred last March from the 21st to the 25th. It was launched in last year by Japanese artist Tomoaki Ryu and Taiwan...

ALEXANDER GELMAN “LITTLE BLACK”

2007.2.28　 Text: Yoshihiro Kanematsu

After I went down the stairs to the gallery, it, something black, suddenly appeared. It stuck out from the ceiling, and rested in the air. There were a set of plane pieces, which could be titled black over black, in t...

A NICE SET IN TOKYO

2007.2.27　 Text: Deirdre Corley

A Nice Set, a traveling art exhibit of one of a kind slip mats, opened with a party at Tokyo's Reed Space on Feb 2nd in funky and fashionable Aoyama area. The show is comprised of work by 34 artists from all ov...

YUMEJUYA EXHIBITION

2007.1.31　 Text: Yoshihiro Kanematsu

"Such a Dream was Seen". A sketch "Yume Jyuya" by Soseki Natsume is the ten talks of the dream that Soseki once looked. A story of the woman who says already dies from graceful eyes, and a story of Unkei (A famous...

DESIGN FESTA VOL. 24

2007.1.27　 Text: Jo Phirip

"Design Festa! vol.24" was held on December 2nd and 3rd at Tokyo Big Sight. This big event with more than 6,000 artists and 2,600 booths has been introduced several times on Shift. This time, I would like to introduce...

MOTION AWARD 2006

2007.1.27　 Text: Yasuharu Motomiya

An innovative animation tool, Flash already marks its 10th anniversary now. Flash has been developed especially in the web field, and now there are not many websites which don't have Flash. Also, it doesn't stay only ...

DESIGNTIDE 2006

2006.12.27　 Text: Yurie Hatano

DesignTide in Tokyo 2006 took place at an empty building and various galleries in Tokyo from November 1 through the 5th. About 100 groups of designers gathered for this event from all over the world. This year’s theme...

BEYES “SNOW WISHES”

2006.12.19　 Text: Yurie Hatano

Snow will fall at BEYES Omotesando Hills. "Snow Wishes". The falling snow will be your messages. Please send messages for your significant other from the web page to the environmental equipment "EDIT WALL", of BEY...

WORM HOLE EPISODE 4

2006.12.5　 Text: Yoshihiro Kanematsu

The magical, ARTROOM in Roppongi is a new gallery opened early in 2006. We already cannot take our eyes off this gallery. Because all exhibitions they offer are enormously attractive with the delicate and superb sou...