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...
HAPPENING
Tim Hawkinson's "Uberorgan" hangs in the Sculpture Garden like a giant inflated bladder. The bamboo trees and glass facade that frame the amorphous shapes only add to the strangely serene installation. Its massive sca...
PEOPLE
It's a remarkable case of two great minds thinking alike, when Desire Heiss and Ines Kaag, both from Germany, teamed up in 1996 to create their seminal fashion label BLESS, which has become internationally acclaimed t...
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...
