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PLATONIQ
Platoniq is a Barcelona based group of cultural producers, curators and software developers. Platoniq's main interest are community building tools, social software and networked strategies for public spaces. Platoniq ...
International online magazine features creative culture
HAPPENING
PLAYGROUND & TOYS
Playground & Toys is conceived as an itinerant exhibition (It has been hosted, among other cities, in London, Paris and New York) in which contemporary artists, architects and designers give their interpretati...
PEOPLE
JAZZTORONIK
On a cold November night at Camden I met Jazztronik aka Ryota Nozaki, visiting London during his over a month world tour. Producing Mond Grosso, Taro Hakase, Gospellers and remixing the works of Bird, M-flo, Mika N...
PLACE
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...
PEOPLE
ANDREW SUTHERLAND
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
BANQUETE PROJECT
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
COLETTE NEWS JANUARY ’06
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
DIGITAL ART FESTIVAL TOKYO 2005
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
STEFAN GANDL “NEUBAU WELT”
"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
STOCKHOLM DESIGN LAB
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
TREE OF LIFE
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
TAISHI KAMIYA “UBIQUITOUS MUSIC”
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...
