PEOPLE
JOSIE SYKES
Amsterdam is often described as a small town rather than a big city and this ring trues when you start recognizing faces at various events. Photographer Josie Sykes (31) is one of those people I was introduced to and ...
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THINGS
PURE AUSTRIAN DESIGN
PAD stands for 'Pure Austrian Design' or 342 pages of finest Austrian design with a focus on indoor and outdoor furniture and lighting. In their recently published book, Julia Taubinger and Andres Fredes from Juland a...
HAPPENING
TROUBLE 1: FEMALE BODY
There is a building called Stadtbad Oderberger in Prezlauerberg, a district in northeast Berlin. It was originally a swimming pool, designed by Ludwig Hoffmann, an early 20th century architect, and used up until the l...
HAPPENING
ANDREA VILLIANI “NO MANIFESTO”
The 2005 edition of the pioneering prize Premio Bonaldi per l'Arte - EnterPrize, dedicated to under 30s curators and now in it's second edition, has been awarded to Andrea Villiani's "No Manifesto". An engaging exhibi...
HAPPENING
THE EROTIC SHOW 2005
The word "erotic" is powerful. It carries with it a mixed bag of meanings and connotations including sex, lust, beauty, taboo, desire, morality and danger. It rides the fence between oh-so-good and oh-so-bad, and exci...
HAPPENING
MARGARET KILGALLEN “IN THE SWEET BYE & BYE”
It was a scene at the opening of Margaret Kilgallen grand retrospective at the Redcat Gallery in downtown L.A. The contrast couldn't have been greater: the outside of the gallery a metal object (the famous Gehry desig...
PEOPLE
TROLLBACK & CO.
This article in New York focuses on a Creative Design House Trollback & Co. a bicoastal creative studio whose ranks I have recently joined (now three months in). They create design for a range of disciplines, from...
HAPPENING
SONAR 2005
It's a clear day, promising fine, warm weather in Barcelona, as our plane taxis out across the tarmac and we're reminded of the 'brace, brace' position. There's a girl sitting next to me getting stuck into a jumbo cro...
HAPPENING
THE ALBUM RELEASE PARTY
The art book "THE ALBUM" has been released by BEAMS T. In it a relationship between vision and music is consciously enclosed. Neither is a main as "THE ALBUM" approaches the realm of art on both sides of vision and mu...
COLETTE
COLETTE NEWS JULY ’05
In addition to being the DVD selector at colette in Paris, Australian writer Linlee Allen also claims her fame as the store's 'all-round groupie'. Having participated in the world-famous boutique's range of events acr...
HAPPENING
CUSTOMIZE ME EXHIBITION
This is not the first time that a brand like VANS, invite other art disciplines to act over its shoes. Last edition of the alternative fashion "CIRCUIT" by exellence in Barcelona was a good example: two young designer...
PEOPLE
HORT
In this Shift issue, Eike and Martin from Hort, a design studio in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, designed the cover. Their design, which is unique and has a sense of humor, is well known in German music industry. They a...
