Stevie Boi is Celeb Designer, whose designed eyewears can be seen both on and off stage of the fashion icons like Lady Gaga and Fergie. Since he started his career in 2009, his pop and funky design has become many art...

BLONDE REDHEAD

2010.9.26　 Text: Victor Moreno

It is seven o´clock in the evening. I´m waiting with the label manager outside the corridor in the backstage. It is quiet. Blonde Redhead is waiting for me. – “Oh, please you can come in”. We are in the dressing room....

BILL WOLFF

2010.4.2　 Text: mina

A New York based sculptor specializing in using wood and bronze, Bill Wolff will be participating the international art fair ART SHANGHAI 2010, held in Shanghai in May 2010. He once studied at Tokyo University of the ...

DIRTY PROJECTORS

2010.3.26　 Text: Monika Mogi

2009 was an impressive year for art-pop, Brooklyn-based band Dirty Projectors. Their single 'Stillness is the Move' seemed to be streaming on every indie music blog imaginable and the band received amazing press for t...

MASASHI KAWAMURA

2009.11.29　 Text: Mariko Takei

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...

PEPPER AND PISTOL

2008.7.11　 Text: Yukiko Oyama

Pepper and Pistol is a womenswear label from NYC, created by Silvia Hillmann and Katrin Wiens, both born in Germany. Each season they decide on a playful theme or image rich story to base their collection and bring us...

ERIC SIU

2008.7.11　 Text: Josephine Sze Chan

Eric Siu, a bright young artist from Hong Kong, graduated from City University and has been teaching Media Arts for 2 years. His creative mind brought him to New York in 2007, with the support of the Asian Cultural C...

BOOGIE

2008.6.25　 Text: Garry Waller

Boogie is a 38 year old native of Belgrade, Serbia, who began taking photos of the civil unrest and violence that reigned in his homeland during the 1990's. After winning a Green Card in the lottery, he promptly came ...

JOE CLAUSSELL

2008.5.15　 Text: Yasuharu Motomiya

A music producer Joaquin "Joe" Claussell. Celebrating his brand new album “Corresponding Echoes”, Joe was making a Japan tour from March to April in 2008. We had a change to interview with him asking about new album ...

CARLOS J. GóMEZ DE LLARENA

2008.3.28　 Text: Kyoko Tachibana

This month's Shift cover was designed by Carlos J. Gómez de Llarena. Carlos has been pursuing his creative activities under the name, med44. Gómez works on a variety of media from web-based art work to public instal...

STORM THARP

2007.8.31　 Text: Ryan Bukstein

Storm Tharp is a painter and sculptor living in Portland, Oregon. He enjoys distant, unfettered landscapes - and the sound of piano. He is 37 years old and his favorite color is hot pink. Mister Wisher, Kisser W...

PETER SUTHERLAND

2006.5.5　 Text: Garry Waller

Peter Sutherland is a New York based artist who moved to the city from Colorado in 1998. After arriving and working at a vegan restaurant to get by, his "big idea" of what to really do here wasn't at first evident to ...