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ALBANY BULB
Entering the Albany Bulb feels a little like trespassing on private property. The paths are not paved or clearly defined like other bay-side parks – it's raw, overgrown, and strewn with industrial refuse. As yo...
PLACE
Entering the Albany Bulb feels a little like trespassing on private property. The paths are not paved or clearly defined like other bay-side parks – it's raw, overgrown, and strewn with industrial refuse. As yo...
PEOPLE
Andrew Sutherland is a self-taught artist, living and working in Brooklyn, New York. I saw Andrew's work for the first time in a small gallery on the lower east side about a year ago and liked his bold, highly graphic...
HAPPENING
When asked about the objective of Banquete project, the people of Gran Canaria Council for Culture affirm, "we decided the most significant proposal we could make involved communication itself". This institution organ...
COLETTE
Former Aussie and now try-hard Parisien writer Linlee Allen wholly confesses to being the "all-round groupie" of concept store colette, located in the French capital. Having participated in the world-famous boutique's...
HAPPENING
Inviting young international artists through the NHK television program "Digital Stadium" (Digista), Digital Art Festival Tokyo 2005 (DAF) took place in the Panasonic Center Tokyo and National Museum of Emerging Scien...
THINGS
"Neubau Welt" is an extensive encyclopedia of well over a thousand pictograms of everyday objects and obsessions large and small. They were created by designer Stefan Gandl and his Newbau team. Stefan Gandl's...
PEOPLE
This month's SHIFT cover is designed by a Sweden based design company Stockholm Design Lab working in various fields; a total identity of Scandinavian Airlines, all sorts of product design, motion graphics, etc. In ar...
HAPPENING
Christmas in Japan is not usually included as a national holiday, but it was different in 2005 since Christmas day fell on a weekend. Because of this, there might have been more Japanese who had a special Christmas ho...
HAPPENING
It is hard to define music. In the narrow sense, it can be music is what has a scale, a melody and rhythm. However, to define that this is all about music might shut the possibility music has. Taishi Kamiya i...
HAPPENING
The exhibition "X-COLOR / Graffiti in Japan" was held from October 1st to December 4th at the Art Tower Mito. About 40 "bombers" met at the so called 'first large-scale exhibition showing Japanese graffiti art'. Some...
PLACE
Going to Habitus, a "designed space" owned by renown Hong Kong artist and designer Kith Tsang Tak Ping, feels like a form of time travel. One must first follow the antique tram-car tracks from one of Sheung Wan's MTR ...
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Melbourne street art can be characterised by one thing only - diversity. Whatever your taste in the illicit arts of street culture, you can find it here. Catch a train in any direction out of Melbourne's central Fl...
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There have been a few very successful examples of the guerilla store concept, most notably the Comme de Garcons stores in places such as Warsaw and Berlin, but also Vacant in the US. 60daysofspace is a new Dutch chal...
PLACE
Today's highest temperature was minus 8 with a wind chill factor of minus 15. I kid you not! Vienna looks like a Christmas postcard these days, with snow and fairy lights everywhere. This is exactly the time when ...
HAPPENING
Palast der Republik - the building was decided to be destroyed by the former Federal Republic of Germany (Eastern Germany) Congress in 1990. Because asbestos had been used for the building, they publicly gave the rea...
PEOPLE
Momus's first concert in Italy could only be held in Venice: the tightly intertwining network of alleys that disorient the inexperienced tourist, the combination of pleasurable Mediterranean sun and the hidden threats...
HAPPENING
It is only 5minits walk from Shorditch, which is always busy with design offices, gallerias, and studios, that is the center of city, the place for money and business. Hiscox gallery is placed in it. Hiscox is Europ...