HAPPENING
Design Festa recently celebrated its 25th anniversary. The festival is called ‘the biggest international art event’, so about 6000 people from 32 countries and all over Japan came to exhibit, sell and present their or...
HAPPENING
I saw the sunshine through the clouds just after the rain. But then I heard thunder as I went out. I was all wet when I got home then again, the sun came out. In this dramatic weather, DESIGNMAI was held from May 1...
PEOPLE
Gi Myao is the artist behind this month's Shift cover, based in London, she has graced us with her artwork. Having a strong art background she started out at the tender age of five with lipstick and mud. With a strong...
PEOPLE
As most painters, he began drawing as a little boy and he was very good at it. He remembers using the same colours now than when he was in primary school. Then, he studied many careers and got bored of them all. And a...
THINGS
Atsushi Toyama's book, "BirdBook", there are several pictures depicting many types of birds in a unique artistic style. While that style might seem a bit childish, in fact to this writer as well as the many that might...
PEOPLE
Takahi Kawanishi opens a solo exhibit after an interval of 4 years entitled, "ONI NO KO". First stopping off at Tokyo's POINT and then Sapporo's SOSO. The destruction of aesthetic, the strength by natural consequences...
HAPPENING
Publicity about International Documentary Film Festival Docville on national television and radio attracted our attention. Between May 30th and June 5th, Docville's third edition, held in student city Leuven, brough...
HAPPENING
On Saturday, June 9th, 2007 I had the fortunate opportunity to attend the opening party of "Everests" held at Shift's own, SOSO. Having met Takahi Kawanishi, the artist behind "Everests" the night before, I could tel...
HAPPENING
After Paris, Fabrica, the Benetton communication research center, inaugurates at the Blaak 10 space in Rotterdam a new temporary store which will stay open until December 2007. The occasion is the opening of YOU ARE ...
HAPPENING
The first thing you experience when arrived at Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Conteporanea to visit the show “Optical Sound” is a sound indeed: Jordan Wolfson, a young American born artist living in New York and Berlin, ha...
PLACE
UNIQLO has had a T-shirt campaign every year for the last 4 years. It consists of over 1,000 shirts they produced. On April 28th, UNIQLO opened a new store on Harajuku Meiji Street called "UT STORE HARAJUKU." which i...
HAPPENING
The seventh edition of the OFFF festival presents itself with a statement for renovation. And so it goes, the rich media starts to be mature and so has been OFFF as well. Yes! in my opinion OFFF offered the most solid...
