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20 UNDER 45
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...
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PLACE
ARTLAB
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
KRV KURVA
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
BITTERZOET
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
JAPANESE GARDEN
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
THE 3RD BERLIN BIENNALE
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
KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN
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
SEMI-PARMANENT 2004
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
SINOMBRE
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
GREYBULL PRESS
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...
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THE ARMORY SHOW 2004
The lingering smell of beef quesadilla and chili from our rushed lunch filled the freight elevator as we waited to get into the Armory Show on a blustery March day in New York City. While standing in line to purchase ...
HAPPENING
CHISATO SHINYA “IMAGINE STORY”
Chisato Shinya, a Sapporo based illustrator who did the Shift cover design for the March issue, held an exhibition called "Imagine Story" at Soso in March. In this exhibition, she created a kind of picture book with o...
