THINGS
Benzin: Young Swiss Graphic Design showcases the work of young Swiss designers. The bright pink-colored cover catches your eyes first. As you turn the pages, numbers of works and interviews of spirited young graphic d...
HAPPENING
Brussels, year 2000. The Continent exhibition takes place in the city center, in a building specially renovated for the occasion and dedicated to become a modern art center, iMAL. The event runs from September 8th unt...
PLACE
On October 20th, the shop 'Psygoyama' was opened as a shop managed directly by the fashion brand 'Bajera' in Daikanyama where stylish cafes are clustered. This shop proposes a sophisticated and new 'Japanese' style, ...
HAPPENING
This year the annual Moscow International Festival "Focom" festival took place in the building of the first Moscow electric power-station, which appears now to be one of the most expensive galleries of our city - "New...
HAPPENING
The second edition of Montreal Biennale was launched on September 28th in an unusual place. What used to be The Palais du Commerce was chosen to be the meeting point for art enthusiasts. The abandoned Palais du Commer...
HAPPENING
On October 7th and 8th, the event entitled 'Sports to Kibarashi' (Sports and Distractions) was held at an alternative space Room in Gentilly in the suburbs of Paris. In this small and pure white space originally used ...
HAPPENING
Hello. Let us introduce ourselves, this is Karl and Yasmeen, we have started to write for SHIFT instead of Nick from London. Both of us are Graphic Design students and from our experiences we will update you of ...
HAPPENING
Associate Director of the MIT Media Lab and Director of Aesthetics and Computation Group of the lab, John Maeda fuses computer science and visual arts to challenge the common understanding of computer aided desi...
HAPPENING
On the 2nd and 3rd of October, a fashion event called Creative Works 2001 coordinated by Shift was held in Sapporo. This show attempted to send out the creation of the new generation from Sapporo, mainly by Shift. It ...
THINGS
The Japanese film 'Blister!' won the Fantaland Grand Prize and got the best reputation from audiences in this year's Yubari International Film Festival. It gives a good picture of the everyday life of so-called Geeks ...
PEOPLE
We had a chance to meet an artist at the Continent exhibition in Brussels featured in this month's Shift. Tuomo Tamenpaa is a Finnish designer artist who set up a huge advertisment in a corner of the room for a virtua...
HAPPENING
The film + concert was held at NTT Inter Communication Center (ICC) in Shinjuku on September 23th and it was really interesting. This event entitled 'Architettura: Contemporary Architecture and Electronic Music' was a...
