HAPPENING
With weather fit for a party Hamburg, had a glorious one for the annual Hamburg Hafengeburtstag (Harbor Birthday). Held from 7th through the 9th of May the annual festival saw the return of the ferris wheel and ma...
HAPPENING
Well... we talked about it before but we HAVE to continue about this spot... as we were waiting for this kind of place for quite a long time. The Batofar, firemen boat on the seine, re-morphed in a concert hall,...
PEOPLE
In the five years that Liz has been with the magazine she has seen some incredible changes in the world of commercial art and design. The magazine has been around for nearly 50 years and is consistent with it's o...
HAPPENING
With the slogan "Subvert the Future," Faze Festival opened its curtain to a sold-out audience last Sunday. Showcasing fifteen-plus new and exclusive commercials and music videos, some of which are banned from the mai...
PEOPLE
This month's cover design was produced by Matthew Willis who is a multi-media creator living in Sydney, Australia. As you know seeing his site, he is an up-and-coming creator produces experimental flash works with his...
PEOPLE
Abstract vocal tunes started to launch for the world from Tokyo. The break beats, techno and abstract label "ns-com" established by Dj Miku (a.k.a. MIK) in 1997. The supervisor Miku, Dub Squad, Ebizoo, Takayuki Shiroi...
THINGS
The text frightened me today is the special feature 'TOKYO DESIGN' in June issue of Studio Voice. It features lots of people who create and send off old, middle and new visuals in today's Tokyo. I'm happy to read th...
THINGS
I cannot write text at all and I'm frightened by text. Because I think text is an ultimate form of multimedia, and text is what all things in the universe are coded and visualized. Recently kanji (Chinese character) ...
HAPPENING
The Hong Kong International Film Festival has just ended and during its run from March 31st to April 15th, there were a variety of wonderful films for the masses to get a taste of. One of those was the Hirotsugu Kawa...
PEOPLE
Australian based performance artist Stelarc has been experimenting with new approaches to the internet in the recent years. In the course of time he has wired his body (with a 3rd electronic limb) to the internet s...
HAPPENING
About once a year, in Germany, there's a conference for designers to attend. This year I chose to attend TYPO '99 in Berlin which was sponsored by the FontShop. This years theme was image and language, and didn't foc...
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Mark Rothko (1903-1970) at Musee d'art Moderne de Paris. It was only the second time that the French audience had the opportunity to penetrate into the minimal landscape work of Mark Rothko and for most of the people...
