PEOPLE

GI MYAO
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

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...
PEOPLE

An animator, cartoonist, illustrator, product designer, published author, fine artist, toy designer, clothing designer based in Sydney, Jeremyville is here! WIth the new book "Jeremyville Sessions" and Shift cover, e...
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...