HAPPENING
"Little Boy" is an exhibition showcasing a selection of ten Japanese artists who have risen to fame, apparently to cult status by exploring the idea of 'Otaku'. The meaning of 'Otaku' refers to the visual culture surr...
COLETTE
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
Flash conference FITC 2005 was held on April 9th through 11th in Toronto, Canada. There were over 60 guest speakers from all over the world. The familiar faces like Yugo Nakamura, Collin Moock, and Joshua Davis, and b...
HAPPENING
Motivated by their affinity towards Japan, six years ago seven students in Frankfurt, Germany formed Nippon Connection. By last year, the festival had grown to have more than 16,000 visitors and by some estimates is n...
HAPPENING
The exhibition at NTT InterCommunication Center [ICC], "Open Nature" has been taking place. ICC has made many plans, which are based on various themes and illuminate relationships between art and technology with vario...
PEOPLE
This month's cover is designed by TAKORA Kimiyoshi Futori, who is a visual creator and well-known to SHIFT for his collaboration with Chisato Shinya. He has offered his visuals to a picture book Andersen (Die Gerstalt...
HAPPENING
There might be many surprised people when they find out that Masataka Kurashina, a custom painter, who collaborates with heterogeneous creators such as musicians and modern artists, has made a picture book. We cannot ...
PLACE
Not long ago, West Kowloon was just the name of an area-the Western part of Hong Kong's Kowloon peninsula, to be exact. Today, however, those two words mean so much more, as they have become a short-hand for the contr...
HAPPENING
One of the most memorable shop window displays I have ever seen was the one for the book, Exactitudes. The Atheneaum book store in Amsterdam had a stunningly simple idea of images from the book decorating their window...
PLACE
Stiff and stuffy? Antiquated or even boring? Absolutely not! These days it's more house than waltz in Vienna. It's funky, electric. A lot of hip locations can be found in Vienna's Guertel area. (Photo: Vienna Sli...
PLACE
Ladies and gents, you are entering a wonderful and exciting world. Here I am reporting live from South America; more precisely, I'm located in Bogota, Colombia, but from this moment on I'll be your guide to this terri...
HAPPENING
Last Saturday night, the doors of Double Punch (one of the City's coolest places to buy toys, merchandise and art) were opened for the reception of NoMe: Urban Surrealism. Outside the rain soaked the streets a...
