THINGS
ROMANTIK
"Romantik" was released from Die Gestalten Verlag, a famous publishing company for artistic graphic books. This book is romantic as the title suggests. "Romance" is coming back to the world of fashion, graphi...
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HAPPENING
THANKSGIVING MAKEUP 2
The suitable event for the finale of Dotmov Festival, "Thanksgiving Makeup 2" was performed on Sunday night, the last day of November. This is the 2nd version of "Thanksgiving Makeup" held at Soso Cafe in April by Miw...
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SCHERZO “SALE RE-PERFORMANCE”
Scherzo expresses the "laughter" in daily life, humorously putting music and narration on an image or an illustration. Recently, the scherzo world came to Soso Cafe. Scherzo organized by Masaki Kagajo has two...
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PROGRESSIVE FORM SHOWCASE
The first live showcase in Sapporo for Progressive Form, which became the Japanese representative independent record label for supporting various new electronic sounds and scenes since 2000, was held at Soso Cafe. ...
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CQ EXHIBITION
"CQ" exhibition was held at Ex'ream, a cafe in Harajuku. CQ is a community that creates visual contents that have a "new value" using the next generation's mobile tools. Twelve artists were invited from New York, Los ...
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RAFAEL LOZANO-HEMMER “AMODAL SUSPENSION”
November 25th, 6 a.m. As dawn breaks on a cold morning, twenty beams of bright white lights that had been intersecting above suddenly rise together towards the sky, before disappearing just as abruptly. The finale for...
THINGS
SHIFT 2004 CALENDAR
Shift's 2004 Calendar is now ready. The aim of the calendar project was to provide up-and-coming creators a calendar as a medium to let them express their creativity. We invited all Shift readers to submit works for t...
THINGS
GRIMM: THE ILLUSTRATED FAIRY TALES OF THE BROTHERS GRIMM
23 fairy tales are lovingly illustrated by Die Gestalten favourites. Gestalten is well known for publishing artistic books with an interesting theme. Childhood friends such as Hansel and Gretel or Cinderella are featu...
PEOPLE
TAKESHI MURATA
A cover design of this month is designed by Takeshi Murata whose work was selected by one of judges, the Designers Republic in DOTMOV festival held in November. Although his animation is plane, it has made special spa...
PLACE
ANO
Do you know the mole Krtek? Krtek was born in 1957 in Czechoslovakia, a country with a long history in the animation world. Recently the DVD Box was released which has been received so well that it has already sold ou...
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HONG KONG ART BIENNIAL 2003
Like the other regions, Hong Kong Art Biennial Exhibition, which is an exhibition that showcases artworks selected from an open competition, aims at providing the platform to showcase the local artistic practices and...
PLACE
SMART PROJECT SPACE (AMSTERDAM CONTEMPORARY ART FOUNDATION)
Situated on the Eerste Constantijn Huygensstraat, the former Jan Swammerdam Institute (JSI) looks sort of sleepy from the outside but inside there is a veritable hive of activity, this being the home of SMART Project ...
