When you follow the feeling only you know through and through, you'll find a narrow road that leads to universality. Masakatsu Takagi is a musician and video creator. He has been a pioneering artist that represents ne...

JUN OSON

2006.12.27　 Text: Yurie Hatano

This month's SHIFT cover was designed by Jun Oson, an illustrator whose work was featured in SHIFT 2007 CALENDAR. His works show impressive and unique touch with a sense of humor. The cover has a story. Please check...

HEKTOR BY FIELD TRIP

2006.5.1　 Text: Yasuharu Motomiya

The exhibition and installation of the drawing machine "HEKTOR" by creative unit Field Trip was performed at gallery Information in Tokyo. This drawing machine HEKTOR is a bit unusual, incorporating a spray attached t...

NULL*

2006.3.1　 Text: Yurie Hatano

This month's SHIFT cover was designed by null*, which operates out of Tokyo and is a project of artless. Its concept is to incorporate Japanese traditional aesthetic feelings. The group creates graphic expressions, fr...

HIDEHITO SHINNOU

2006.2.1　 Text: Yurie Hatano

This month's SHIFT cover was designed by a young graphic artist Hidehito Shinnou whose work was featured in Shift Calendar Competition. He studied graphic design at school in Nagoya, Japan, and is currently working as...

AKINORI OISHI

2005.12.1　 Text: Yurie Hatano

This month's SHIFT cover is designed by Akinori Oishi. He has expanded his activity in Europe since he got the award of the New Talent Competition at the International Multi Media Trade Fair in France, Milia 2001. He ...

TAKORA KIMIYOSHI FUTORI

2005.5.2　 Text: Yurie Hatano

This month's cover is designed by TAKORA Kimiyoshi Futori, who is a visual creator and well-known to SHIFT for his collaboration with Chisato Shinya. He has offered his visuals to a picture book Andersen (Die Gerstalt...

MARCOS WESKAMP

2005.2.3　 Text: Naoko Fukushi

Loads of information come and go through every day. Marcos Weskamp has created some projects, which visualize such unseen information with academic and interesting concept and technology. We interviewed him and grabbe...

TOMOAKI RYUH

2005.1.3　 Text: Naoko Fukushi

The first designer for 2005 is Tomoaki Ryuh, a Japanese designer currently working in London. His work was recently selected as a winner of the Shift 2005 Calendar Competition. While he works mainly on graffiti, he ch...

TAKU ANEKAWA

2004.10.3　 Text: Naoko Fukushi

Tangled, tied and frayed... Taku Anekawa finds such fascination of thread and recently he's making artworks with embroider energetically. This issue's cover design has done by him, who has reached his 10th year annive...

YUGO NAKAMURA

2004.8.3　 Text: Naoko Fukushi

Yugo Nakamura is one of Japan's leading web designers, who is getting recognized more and more from around the world. He has just won the Grand Prix of Cyber Lion at the 51st annual Cannes Lions Festival. The Shift co...

KOJI MORIMOTO

2004.7.3　 Text: Naoko Fukushi

Koji Morimoto worked on the film "Akira" directed by Katsuhiro Otomo, a music promotion video for Ken Ishi and a piece for "Animatrix". He is an animation director who is attracting a great deal of attention internati...