HAPPENING
Horiren's tattoo work was held at a gallery in Shibuya, Tokyo. It has been five years since she changed her career from a muralist to a tattoo artist. The number of people she has tattooed is over a thousand. Her his...
HAPPENING
Japan is always the most popular travel destinations for Hong Kong people. During the past Easter, many Hong Kongers spent the long weekend in Japan. If you missed the golden holidays to travel to Japan, don't be disa...
HAPPENING
How does one go about planning the city? How does one fill the city? What makes a city? Vast numbers of people? Monuments? Vibrant array of activity? Spaces house activities, promote visibility and create in...
PLACE
On April 14th, ArtLab, a small art gallery and shop held it's first art show/opening party, titled the Vinyl Show. The show featured eight artist/designers, each were given one classic 12" vinyl record cover to work o...
PEOPLE
Picture this, I was walking around Lisbon's main shopping street, looking for something new to buy and I decided to check out what's new in the huge Fabrica Features Store, in the Benetton Megastore. Something really ...
PLACE
It's not often people sit in front of you beaming from ear to ear during their whole interview so I think it is pretty fair to say the owners of Amsterdam's BitterZoet are extremely happy. And so they should be. Havin...
PLACE
The Japanese Garden is situated in a very green neighbourhood in Buenos Aires: Palermo. It was built in 1967, when the Japanese emperors Akihito and Michiko came to Argentina. In the eighties, the Garden was se...
HAPPENING
BB3 - The 3rd edition of the young Berlin Biennial features fifty artists presenting visual, architectural, cinematic and sonic art works inspired by Berlin, facing its 15th year since the collapse of the wall and the...
PEOPLE
Pause is the first edition of a series of concerts and video projections inside Milan's beautifully suggestive cathedral. Largely built between 1366 and 1485, the cathedral is undeniably one of the most emblematic loc...
HAPPENING
A sunny New Zealand day seemed a poor time to gather in a dark room with 700 sweaty designers, but armed with a media-pass and a triple espresso I'd reason to smile. The event was Semi-Permanent, a design conference a...
PEOPLE
Since 2001 or so the number of Web designers in the Bay Area has diminished significantly. While the vast majority seem to have left the area for good (recent census figures show that San Francisco is still shedding p...
THINGS
It's a media world and more and more we are dominated by the soundbyte-sized, flash-animated, scrollable and channel-surfing kind of information distribution. Nothing against it but it is nice to know that there are p...
