DON’T DIE BEFORE YOU’VE LIVED

2004.12.4　 Text: Sari Uchida

This Summer, an eye-catching advert was shown on TV. A young celebrity called Sarah Rivers shows the viewers around her new house, telling us how she was 'discovered' while shopping with her aunt in a department...

BENJAMIN MORGAN “QUALITY OF LIFE”

2004.12.4　 Text: Mark Buswell

Earlier this year I stumbled across a site though one of the major design-related portals. It was for a movie called "Quality of Life" - a movie about two graffiti writers who grew up in the Mission District of San Fr...

JR SIDEWALK GALLERY

2004.12.4　 Text: Rei Inamoto

The idea of art on streets isn't something new. It's been around for decades, if not centuries. In cities like New York, you can't a walk a street without seeing something on the sides of the street - graffiti (which ...

PICTOPLASMA CONFERENCE

2004.12.3　 Text: Peta Jenkin

At the very first Pictoplasma Conference on Character Design, held in Berlin's east in late October, character designers and enthusiasts alike converged for three days of lectures, workshops, screenings, and live perf...

LONDON ART FAIR 2005

2004.12.2　 Text: Sari Uchida

Taking place in every beginning of New Year, London Art Fair is where edgy galleries are all gathered. In this year, 93 of selected galleries displayed their various artworks ranging from featured modern arts alongsid...

4U RUG EXHIBITION

2004.11.4　 Text: Yuki Ishida

RUG is one of the craft work which Afghanistan take pride in and the things in daily life. The way of use is subdivided, for example, into for meal or for prey. Sometimes, a mother and daughter weave a rug before the ...

THE DURRENMATT FESTIVAL

2004.11.4　 Text: Fann ZJ

Singapore is a globalize city. Absorbing the culture and influence of both the East and the West. In a country that has little natural resources, she has to set high standards for herself, in order to compete on...

CENTRAS 4

2004.11.4　 Text: Emanuelis Ryklys

Our eyes moves through usual forms - crosswalk, cafe, and gallery - it's like repeating scenario, permanent gathering place. It's like an everyday rhythm. Yes, you are inside CENTRAS (CENTER) - the place with no limit...

THE 23RD LISBON FASHION WEEK

2004.11.4　 Text: Simone Biffi

After Milan and Paris, now is time to Lisbon. The Fashion's Circus moved from the High Fashion World's capitals to one new excellent market that is growing up in the Iberia Peninsula each year more. Hi-light was the t...

CHRISTIAN FRIENDRICH FLICK COLLECTION

2004.11.4　 Text: Kristy Kagari Sakai

The Friedrich Christian Flick Collection is one of the most significant contemporary art collections in the world - so much so that, despite the overwhelming controversy surrounding it, the city of Berlin has decided ...

PAULA REGO

2004.11.4　 Text: Sari Uchida

Tate Britain's new initiative is a biennial series of concise exhibitions featuring the work of important British artists. The first artist to be featured is Paula Rego, originally from Portugal. Apart from Tate Bri...

SPECTROPOLIS: MOBILE MEDIA, ART AND THE CITY

2004.11.4　 Text: Carlos J. Gomez

The first weekend of October was a big day for a nascent art form in New York City. It was the first time that an outdoor, wi-fi powered crowd gathered for Spectropolis, a festival of wireless art in the city. This ev...