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WABISABI
Wabisabi, a design unit, whose stronghold is in Sapporo just same as SHIFT, did the SHIFT cover this month. You may know they released their original card game "CROW&TRASH" from SHIFT Factory before. This July, th...
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ROJAK
Take ten of everything and put them together with alcohol and what do you get? Rojak! Rojak the local salad sees chunks of pineapple, cucumber, turnip, dough fritters and fried tofu infused with prawn paste, accompani...
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THE 52ND SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL
The Sydney Film Festival (SFF) is back! From 10th to 25th June the SFF will showcase over 170 films from 39 countries, including the best of the latest features, documentaries and shorts. Direct from London, On...
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RE-SEARCHER “WE ARE ALL LOOKING FOR SOMETHING NEW”
Re-Searcher presented "We are all looking for something new" a collective exhibition of illustration, painting, drawings and video. This exhibition took place in a store called Mousse, situated in Bairro Alto, Lisbo...
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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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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
