THE INTELLIGENCE
Noise and Seattle, how many times have we ever heard these 2 words together? Lars Finberg carries on with such an heritage. He is a musician Seattle-based who dives into low-fi, reverbs and distortion still with melod...
Noise and Seattle, how many times have we ever heard these 2 words together? Lars Finberg carries on with such an heritage. He is a musician Seattle-based who dives into low-fi, reverbs and distortion still with melod...
A fashion designer, Yoshikazu Yamagata works to emotionally expand the concept of fashion, tackling big questions like those above. He stirred controversy with his past JFW (Japan Fashion Week) collections such as “A ...
The solo exhibition “Affection of idols” is held at the 2nd floor of DIESEL DENIM GALLERY AOYAMA, showing selected past works and new collection by Natsuki Otake, an artist who draws girls using the Japanese traditio...
A bag is a very personal space which you can take along with you. Yusuke Kagari is a bag designer who have special consideration over the texture of bag, as rebuilding the mobile space and separating the personal spac...
Fantasista Utamaro, he puts his hand to the works that send out eye-chatchingly pop and intense colors. His works that are strongly influenced by manga cover the whole fields of Illustration, textile, graphic, and vi...
He has different facets in one. A width spanning from investigating labors and essays, including eulogy for the JFK assassination, to avant garde- techno compositions into rock music. Music production, worldwide tours...
"I rather have a body of work that speak for itself than a specific style". The cover design for February was created by PMKFA, who is originally from Sweden and is now based in Tokyo, creating diverse works for va...
VANITY has been the ideal party to the artists, models and hipsters of Tokyo since 2004 and with a guest list filled with internationally renowned bands and fashion designers, it has become the place to be. This inter...
Philip Lau and Grace Kwok is a typical young couple in Hong Kong. They share the same life attitude: be simple. They have also formed a creative unit “cowrice” in 2003 to occasionally produce different forms of art. ...
Word of Art was a concept founded by two South African friends hailing from Johannesburg who decided to make their home and launch their unique concept in Cape Town. Trying to break the conventional concept of the...
Goodmorning Technology was founded in 2003. They are based in Copenhagen, Denmark with an international mindset and a contact office in London plus a solid global network. Goodmorning Technology is held by four par...
The very first cover design for SHIFT 2010 is a work by Natsuki Arai who has worked on the visual for the last page of SHIFT 2010 Calendar. Based in Tokyo, Natsuki Arai has been working on illustrations as an individu...
It's not often you find such high quality products in street fashion. Well, with the Scandinavian brand CTRL (readed “control”) you have found it. From Helsinki with love, there now taking the fashion world by storm. ...
As the Austria-Japan Year 2009, which was called out to celebrate 140 years of diplomatic relations between the two countries, is coming to its end, we are happy to present the readers of Shift magazine with the last ...
"Apparatu is very young, is one studio, one workshop, one company; is something that is being defined through every project. My motivation since I started to believe in crafts was to create a design studio which would...
FUGAHUM is a keen fashion brand started in 2006 by Akiyoshi Mishima, an artist and previously worked as an art director at Enlightenment until last July, and a fashion designer Asuka Yamamoto, and a new member since 2...
Making a buzz for generating more than 1.5 million downloads on YouTube, the music clip "Hibi no Neiro" was selected for DOTMOV FESTIVAL 2009 and amuses many viewers at festival sites nationwide since the festival lau...