PRIMAVERA CLUB 2007

2007.12.25　 Text: Julio Cesar Palacio

The little brother of Primavera Sound festival have grow in his second edition. But if the first is a established cult festival bringing the biggest bands in independent and alternative rock scene, the Estrella Damm P...

ART BASEL MIAMI BEACH 2007

2007.12.24　 Text: Lotje Sodderland

We're not sure what puts the "Beach" in Art Basel Miami Beach, as the entire city (and it's a big one), turns into a giant gallery with events, exhibitions and fairs related to the production and consumption of art an...

RACHAEL MATTHEWS “ANALOGUE AMNESTY”

2007.12.21　 Text: Sayaka Hirakawa

It was not so long ago we were so in love with TDK and VHS tape. Tape, tape tape… for so long, always with us but where is it now? The DVD and Mp3 gave made them relics before we could even finish setting our video...

ASIA MEDIA FESTIVAL 2007

2007.12.18　 Text: Fann ZJ

With the growing interest for Asian films with the remake and adaptation of Asian films in the West, what better and more exciting time to focus on Asia than now as Singapore plays host to the world’s media industry a...

HIGH5

2007.12.18　 Text: Wakana Kawahito

There was the HIGH5, a design conference organised by Hitspaper, a design web magazine, at the AXIS gallery in Tokyo on the 1st of December. This lecture hold to cheer Japanese design up like doing HIGH5.Thre...

LUXURY PLEASE

2007.12.14　 Text: Christina Merl

Luxury and beauty shows are en vogue. There are the ones for “the bold and the beauty”, such as Luxury please in Vienna’s Hofburg Imperial Palace; and there are the ones for the “mainstream”, such as La Donna in Vienn...

MICROWAVE 2007

2007.12.11　 Text: Samantha Culp

Hong Kong’s Microwave Festival has come a long way since its foundation in 1996, and made perhaps its biggest splash yet with 2007’s edition, “Luminous Echo”. As the festival was completely rebranded in 2006, and in 2...

DESIGN FESTA VOL. 26

2007.12.10　 Text: Yuki Furusho

The venue was absolutely huge. If you go there with your friends and get separated form them, that's it. It's quite unlikely to see them ever again. I got lost for a few times actually.. The first booth I looked in...

BAC! FESTIVAL 2007

2007.12.10　 Text: Gudrun Rau

Once a year the CCCB at Barcelona is showing an exhibition with young and upcoming artists from all over the world. This year's subject is "Babylon", here construed as the artists' view on today's or tomorrow's megaci...

SINGAPORE DESIGN FESTIVAL 2007

2007.12.10　 Text: Fann ZJ

The city has been overtaken by signposts of Batman and Robin. A year after Singapore’s first Biennale comes the second Singapore Design Festival. Event venues were identified through signposts of the dynamic duo in br...

BORN IN HOKKAIDO: PEOPLE AND ART ON THE GROUND

2007.11.29　 Text: Shinichi Ishikawa

Winter has finally come to Hokkaido. I was born in here and have been living here for a long time by now, honestly the coldness of winter and the snow sometimes get me down, but when I look around the scenery of snowi...

URBALLOON

2007.11.24　 Text: Carlos J. Gomez

Upon entering the Eyebeam in the month of October, the first thing you would notice was that big white ball, floating. Underneath it, the floor was carpeted with a large video projection, and showed this message: Why ...