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Ace is the hotel for cultural enthusiasts and creative professionals. Ace Hotel Portland, Room 421 with Wet Confetti. Photo: John Mark Sorum The original Ace in Seattle, WA, is now part of a growing family of ...
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Ace is the hotel for cultural enthusiasts and creative professionals. Ace Hotel Portland, Room 421 with Wet Confetti. Photo: John Mark Sorum The original Ace in Seattle, WA, is now part of a growing family of ...
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...
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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...
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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...