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DESIGNINGS
Observing the font boom amongst the young designers, one can tell that fonts are a very good mean to express the designers' identity. Then, how about 'patterns'? As there have been many different 'patterns' out there ...
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ERO POP CHIRISMAS
Takashi Murakami has been the center of the attention in the Japanese modern art scene ever since he made up his original character DOB-Kun a few years ago. He runs an art factory Hiropon Factory that is firmly ...
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OTTO CHAN
Immediate Profitability is very important in Hong Kong market therefore people put products which are in fashion into the market, one after another. As the result, so called trends change very fast. In other words, Ho...
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FARMERS MANUAL
Overlapping/Intersecting - Farmers Manual Words definitely have associations. When I first saw the name, or heard the name Farmers Manual a lot of images came to mind. Things like tractors, fields, and cows to name a ...
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GLOBAL TEKNO FESTIVAL ’98
Here, Newspapers like to say that Paris is no more the museum it used to be compared to the great and alive cities of Berlin and London. Paris wakes up and try it's real 'coming out' in the digital age. Nov 98 wi...
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NEW CHINESE ART EXHIBITION
PS1 out in Queens is holding a great show called Inside Out: New Chinese Art. It is an exhibition showcasing modern artists from this century in mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong as well as Chinese artists l...
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UNDERWORLD
On the eve of Thanksgiving, November 23rd, Underworld played a great show at the Manhattan Center's Hammerstein Ballroom in Midtown. By the time I arrived, the show was sold out, a long line stood way down 34th Street...
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TREE-AXIS
Tree-Axis is a multimedia studio based in San Francisco and founded by Stella Lai and Krister Olsson. Formerly associated with FutureFarmers, this designer-programmer collaborative team creates powerful visual languag...
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SAJU
The singing voice such as a transparent lake. It was my first impression when I listened to saju. She went back and forth between Japan and Peking, and produced the 3rd album. The foremost ambient musicians including ...
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JEREMY TAI ABBETT
This month's cover design was designed by Jeremy Tai, co-founder of Fork Unstable Media in Hamburg, Germany. As you may know, he contributes to Info World Hamburg monthly. SHIFT interviewed him on his design life and ...
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MACDONALD’S SNOOPY DOLLS
For 28 days from September to October, McDonald had carried out a campaign of selling plastic Snoopy dolls which are about 5cm tall and each doll costs 6HK$ with purchasing a value meal set. These Snoopy dolls wer...
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STAMP-MAKING MACHINE
The first time I visited Germany I was amazed by the amount of stamps that the country uses. For example, I brought my mountain-bike over from the United States and had to pay taxes. After the necessary forms were fil...
