DESIGN FESTA VOL. 27
Design Festa, one of the largest art festivals in Asia, was held through May 17th through 18th at Tokyo Big Site. On brilliant summer day, it was filled with excitement of people covering the entire floor. On entering...
Design Festa, one of the largest art festivals in Asia, was held through May 17th through 18th at Tokyo Big Site. On brilliant summer day, it was filled with excitement of people covering the entire floor. On entering...
The eighth edition of the OFFF festival is going to take place in Lisbon. After 6 editions in Barcelona, one in Valencia and two extra editions hosted by NYC and Mexico (canceled at the very end), OFFF 2008 organi...
On May 15th 2008, a piece of mail arrived following the report by The Hokkaido Shimbun Press, "At last, the Japanese government is going to recognize the Ainu as an indigenous people!" The mailing continued to report ...
New York has just held it's First International Photography Festival in the United States and despite arriving jet lagged from a vacation the night before I managed to catch the last day of the event. The 3 day festiv...
One of the world biggest international furniture fairs, The 47th Milano Salone Internazionale del Mobile was held from 16th to 21st April in Milan, Italy. This article is a digest of the report by Daisuke Ark Kozuk...
TENORI-ON is the innovative music instrument that has been taken about 6 years for its completion, created by Toshio Iwai, a leading media artist in Japan. It has 16 x 16 LED buttons laid out on its surface. Each butt...
It is definitely important to think about the environment. However, it is difficult to keep being aware of something in our everyday lives. You cannot act anything without being aware of. There are many cases that ...
On the occasion of the first anniversary of Tsunemi Umetsu' s death, "Tsunemi Umetsu Retrospective Exhibition" was held in Gallery Odori Art Museum in Sapporo from April 29th to May 4th. Tsunemi Umetsu was born and...
Tatsuo Miyajima's "Art in You" is held at Art Tower Mito Contemporary Art Center. This is his first solo show in 8 years in a Japanese metropolitan area. Thankfully, it's showing a large number of his works. One of th...
The public offering and project exhibition “Nomadic! -Shayne Ehman & Friends-” took place from March 20th through April 20th at Tokyo Wonder Site Hongo. We, Birdo Flugas, took charge of planning and exhibited...
I can still remember the first piece of New York City street art that made an impression on me: walking through Williamsburg several years ago, I was stopped in my tracks by the haunting face of a young girl peering o...
The 5th Berlin Biennale Biennale entitled “When things cast no shadow” begun on the 5th, April 2008. This time the biennale was organized by the great young curator Adam Szymczyk and his partner Elena Filipovic. Accor...
The Biennial characterizes the state of American art today. Phoebe Washburn, It Makes for My Billionaire Status, 2005 (installation view, Kantor/Feuer Gallery, Los Angeles, 2005). The Whitney Biennial is being...
Walking through the crack floor, my whole body system worked simultaneously! Both my legs and heart struggled hard against one another in overcoming my height phobia and avoiding the danger of “falling off” while my b...
The way to Paris Fashion Week is much more severe than one would like to expect. The designers, have to make their brain something of a black hall in order to earn the title as one of the 90 maison de couture. The mod...
2007 saw the 9th Lyon Biennial of Contemporary Art launched in 1991 by Thierry Raspail, the director of Lyon Modern Museum. It was almost the only worldwide exhibition in France. Followed by two exhibitions, “It Happe...
Shift was redesigned in 2007 commemorating its 10th anniversary. And now 2008, we called for public entries for the Shift Logo Design, seeking further development for next 10 years. Total 485 works gathered from 40 ...