HAPPENING
The so-called Grand Tour is arguably the largest series of contemporary art events of the year 2007, as the triangle of three major international exhibitions happened to take place within the same year; the Venice Bie...
PEOPLE
Lulu is a young motion/graphic designer based in Beijing. The banner motion graphic design for Get It Louder, which had been featured on Shift until recently, was also by her. She is a very active designer with so man...
PEOPLE
Pixelgarten, from Frankfurt, which again got attention from art world as they did the cover design of 'form' for the 50 anniversary issue of the magazine more and more. They have been together for 3 years by now, the...
HAPPENING
Experience, Exploration, Ingenuity I’ve recently returned from my first foray to what has got to be the greatest creative explosion on the planet, Burning Man. If creativity, intensity and innovation inspire an...
THINGS
Founded in 2001 in Hong Kong, Viction:ary is a design/art-oriented publisher which has been playing internationally. In summer 2007, their brand new book called “Fashion Unfolding” is released. With a main th...
PEOPLE
With his childhood memory of what he calls "the ruins of the future" in the aftermath of the Osaka Expo '70, the artist Kenji Yanobe has been creating art in a unique form with a social message. To coincide with anoth...
PLACE
As most of Shanghai’s residents know better, spring and autumn typically passes so fast strictly speaking two seasons are left each year. Winter can only mean frozen fingers and bulky coats, so there really is no bett...
HAPPENING
Students holding placards in a mock protest greeted visitors as they entered the stately 1950s Soviet-designed Shanghai Exhibition Center on opening night. I had been looking forward to SH Contemporary 2007 even befor...
HAPPENING
The Summer 07 edition of Bread & Butter, a 3 day fashion extravaganza, was visited by more than 100,000 people. The BBBulletin (the Bread & Butter publication guide) announced that BRIT is the most "in" sty...
PLACE
Japan’s first commercial complex on the theme of the robot, Robot Museum in Nagoya. The Robot Culture Museum, which opened on October 2006, mainly consist of 4 facilities; a museum with many robot related exhibitions...
HAPPENING
"Best advice you ever got?" "No pain, no gain." We pass by the "Alte Postfuhramt" and approach the side entrance to the "Rodeo Club". We're 3 hours early for the inauguration but the place is already open to th...
PEOPLE
Julie Verhoeven knows better than most about how these two worlds work. She is a multi-disciplined designer across art and fashion; from illustration and creative direction to design consultancy, her work is known for...
