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TOM PHILLIPSON
With two full-length CD releases within the last year, and numerous design projects to boot, Sydney's Dump Huck / Beat & Squelch collective is becoming a much-needed cohesive force in the town's often fractured el...
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With two full-length CD releases within the last year, and numerous design projects to boot, Sydney's Dump Huck / Beat & Squelch collective is becoming a much-needed cohesive force in the town's often fractured el...
PLACE

Hamburg has Germany's biggest harbour. Some people love it so much, that they move into its rough and industrial environment and sometimes they do parties. They did so last Saturday afternoon. The "Brandshof" resident...
PEOPLE

The futuristic objets d'art by Ora-Ito were featured in Crash magazine and attracted Parisians' eyes. The name 'Ora-Ito' sounds like a Japanese name, but seems there's no Japanese in their group. 'It was na...
HAPPENING

Titled Urbanworld Flim Festival 2000, this was a "film festival solely dedicated to redefining and enhancing the role of minority films in contemporary cinema." Over a course of 5 days, the festival featured...
PEOPLE

IdN is a digital design magazine from Hong Kong. It focuses covers the range of creativity from graphic design to motion graphics mainly on the web. It has gained a great reputation from creators in the world. Each is...
THINGS

The CodexSeries is an ongoing CD ROM project that consists of projects by different talents in the digital medium. The Series explores narrative, design and interactive work. Somewhere between a compilation CD and a d...
HAPPENING

From July 20th to September 10th, a huge art festival entitled Echigotsumari Art Triennial was held in Niigata, Japan. This festival was spread over 6 cities, covering an aread about 762km2, for the first time in Japa...
PEOPLE

This month's cover design was produced by Squidsoup, a group of interactive designers, artists and musicians based in London. They have designed numberous web sites and CD-ROMs for major clients, and at the same time,...
HAPPENING

Usually in Paris, July is a month of summer, sun, light-dresses and vacations. The town is getting really pleasant to live in and that is the best time to go for a stroll in the city. Unfortunately, the weather is ter...
HAPPENING

The Bay Area Award Show 2000, best known as an inspirational resource of the San Francisco local art scene, has launched its seventh annual event this summer. Curated by New Langton Arts, The Award Show focuses exclus...
THINGS

What I'm now interested in is free paintings and illustrations such as 'Scrawl: Dirty Graphics & Strange Characters' published by Booth-Clibborn Editions, and silent visual expressions featured in the IDEA magazin...
HAPPENING

You see, there's all kinds of festivals and happenings going on in Montreal every summer. So many things to do at the same time that it almost gets annoying. Mutek is one thing that I was waiting for. First, a bit o...