HAPPENING
There is a moment that I feel like holding everything, everyone surrounding me. The messy room, the night beach, and the afternoon park, all the scenes look so beautiful and all of us who share the scenes together bec...
PEOPLE
First of all I would like to thank to Shift crew for the invitation to contribute monthly with some news about Brazilian cultural scene. If you have any specific curiosity related to Brazilian culture or if you have a...
PLACE
How come things work here in Amsterdam that would never work anywhere else? Take "90 Square Meters", for example - this is a shop situated on an ultra-modern housing development on an island (KNSM Eiland) to the no...
HAPPENING
Buenos Aires is a cosmopolitan city, and a very contradictory one. Last Monday, on May 12th, the Latin American Museum was the scene for the presentation of Venus Project, one of our latest local ways of surviving the...
HAPPENING
Much has been written about Zaha Hadid, the Baghdad-born architect with her reputation for being fierce, uncompromising and abrasive. I am told some architects will decide after only ten minutes that they could never ...
HAPPENING
Berlin was host to the first Designmay. A two week design orientated congress where over 100 participants contributed with products, project, ideas. I myself was very wound up in our own activities, so that I w...
PLACE
The couple Bea Demel and Carsten Voeller started their own multi-media agency sometime ago. Bea studied graphic-design and didn't want to work in an agency. Carsten formerly was an industrial-programmer and decided to...
PEOPLE
I met Tcheupel Garanger at Milia 2002, in Cannes, he showed interesting series of short animations based on photography. Last month, he introduced his new work at the last BD4D Paris, so I interviewed him. Can...
THINGS
FAD is a magazine about art and the boundaries of art. This new publication is the brainchild of designers Dan Sumption and Mark Westall. More than a magazine, FAD is a collectable outer sleeve, containing a p...
PLACE
"Earth Music" is a new clothing store that opened in May last year in Harajuku, Tokyo. "Earth Music & Ecology" is a popular street ladies' brand and "Earth Music" is the mens' version of it. The brand presen...
HAPPENING
Samsung Museum of Modern Art's first exhibition of 2003, Mind Space addresses the issue of spirituality long overlooked in contemporary art. Traditionally the refuge of religious sentiment or the secular manifestation...
THINGS
I'm wondering what to do this summer, where to go? Are you thinking the same thing? Then I'd like to introduce a new travel kit to the people who are excited about summer and traveling. Any experienced traveler knows ...
