KYLE PELLET

2011.1.26　 Text: Yumiko Miyagawa

Have you ever thought that you were too old to hang out at a candy store? If you have, you have to check out the paintings by Kyle Pellet. The San Jose, California based artist, Kyle Pellet, creates lots of colorful p...

WHYRED

2011.1.25　 Text: Victor Moreno

Roland is a considerate chap with many years of experience within the fashion arena. As founder and creative director of Whyred, he contributes to the Swedish fashion hit machine with, yet straight forms and sharp loo...

VICTORIA CZENTNER

2011.1.10　 Text: Gisella Lifchitz

Victoria Czentner, or “Vicze”, is an artist. But above all, she’s an entrepreneur, a designer of her own way. I found her in the pages of a magazine, just before my Sunday nap. I read an article on her beautiful house...

1980 YEN (ICHI QU PPA)

2010.12.31　 Text: Mariko Takei

A home appliance music group formed by Teppei Kuroyanagi and Tyousinkai. “1980 yen” is a reasonable price for Japanese, it reminds us of electronics retail stores where you can easily find a number of price tags wi...

SILNT

2010.12.23　 Text: Rebecca Toh

SILNT - pronounced 'silent' - is a design practice from Singapore. Run by Felix Ng (art director) and Germaine Chong (studio manager), the studio is best known for their clean, smart, understated and gorgeous work. Be...

KENSHIN

2010.11.17　 Text: Akihiko Hamada

Currently based in New York, a hair stylist KENSHIN works across the world for Editorial works for fashion magazines, runway collections as well as produces whole visual images for a hair salon “THE SALON” located in ...

YUI ONODERA & CELER

2010.11.14　 Text: Mariko Takei

Just released in October, "Generic City" is a first album collaborated with Yui Onodera, who works on sound designs in Japan and overseas, and Celer, who makes a number of ambient and experimental music based in Calif...

LUCA YETY BATTAGLIA

2010.11.4　 Text: Yukiko Oyama

Luca "Yety" Battaglia, when I saw his bizarre but interesting middle name, instantly, I knew there was something unique about him. Looking at his artwork, I sensed his anarchic/punk spirit along with deeper messages t...

MAX HATTLER

2010.11.1　 Text: Mariko Takei

This year's DOTMOV FESTIVAL 2010 has kicked off from November 1st. Among the selected works, SHIFT features a London-based artist Max Hattler, who made two different world that continues forever. One of them, "1925 ak...

ARIEL PINK’S HAUNTED GRAFFITI

2010.10.27　 Text: Victor Moreno

His music is catchy and eccentric. He has been squeezing the possibilities of the demo sound with an 8-track recorder for a decade. He reckons his new album “Before Today” is his actual debut. Now he got the necessary...

MESSY MSXI

2010.10.21　 Text: Minnie Pommiegranate

The childlike characters and playful, dream-like aesthetics of Messy Msxi's art might draw one to savour its intricate details up close, only then to realise these canvases tell of a much darker tale. Messy Msxi illus...

DAI SUZUKI

2010.10.1　 Text: Mariko Takei

Released on October 1st, SHIFT 2011 CALENDAR includes one of the 12 visuals, was created by Kanagawa-based graphic designer Dai Suzuki. He created a cover work for this month, SHIFT will deliver how he started his car...