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I have been writing Shift since 1999 and there have been very few times that I wrote about something not related to art, design or culture. In fact, the only time that I wrote about such news was September of 2001. An...
THINGS
Bridge Magazine is an independent journal covering just about everything - literature, visual art, music, even philosopher Charles Taylor's 'the end of mediational epistemology'. Published triannually, the quality of ...
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I'm going to speak to you about my 12th March 2003 evening. A few drinks and a quick Chinese lunch later, I assisted the Jimi Tenor Show in a famous Parisian jazz club the New Morning. Jimi Tenor is a Finnish ...
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Bathers in Wave Pool, Orlando, FL, 1999 © Alex MacLean I visited the venue of the photography exhibition titled "Americaland" with my friends Kantin and Mat. It was organised in the spacious office of the BET...
PEOPLE
A graphic designer Takeshi Hamada made a cover design for this issue. I guess not many people knows that it is Japanese who makes this statelessness magazine "Tiger". Not only a production of "Tiger", but also he ...
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The Mori Art Museum will open in the center of Tokyo in October 2003. As a commemorative release of the CD "Open Mind" (the museum pre open plan) the "Open Mind Live Event" was performed at Roppongi Hills Information...
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Prize winning works of Media Arts Festival for Cultural Affairs were announced on the 19th of November. This festival had many Japanese top media arts in 2002. It hits its 6th round and has been building as one of t...
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Fugitives is a group show that brings together seven artists from diverse backgrounds whose work fuses the formal protocols of graphic design, comics and illustration with the more traditional media of painting and co...
PEOPLE
The second exhibition at Gas Shop will start Friday the 7th of February. The featured artist is Amsterdam-based-designer Frederique Daubal. Not only designing graphics and textiles, but also She is a talented fashion ...
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The fourth round of Sound Republic was held at THINK ZONE in Roppongi, Tokyo on the 1st of March under the theme "collaboration with the electro media and creators from various genres." There was a downpour on the ev...
PEOPLE
We are with Innothna Artcomm, a group of three guys and a girl: Daniel Bravo, Carles Vallve, Laura Miyashiro and Julio Hardisson. They have received the first ArtFutura Award for Videogame Creation in 2002. That's in...
PEOPLE
Craig Robinson a.k.a. "Flip Flop Flyin'" is an English freelance illustrator/designer based in Berlin, Germany. He made this issue's cover design and his exhibition is on at "Soso", Sapporo, Japan in this February. D...
