LUCAS BADTKE-BERKOW

2009.7.28　 Text: Vicente Gutierrez

Lucas Badtke-Berkow has been creating media in Japan for the world since the founding of his company Knee High Media in 1996. The company's first project was the now cult TOKION magazine which Lucas founded and edited...

VLADIMIRO MERINO

2009.7.27　 Text: Gisella Lifchitz

“Art is like the silence before the storm. That’s what I look for: that silence that anticipates a huge punch in the face. That’s art. This big uppercut when you’re standing still”, he says. He is Vladimiro Merino....

GUILLERMO TRAGANT

2009.7.26　 Text: Celeste Najt

Furia is the project of the talented artist/creative Guillermo Tragant. Furia has already worked for clients such as Nike, Levis, Coca Cola and much more. The formula: a mix of creativity, experimentation, world trave...

FORM US WITH LOVE

2009.7.23　 Text: Victor Moreno

My friend Anna Stenvi introduced me for the very first time a piece from Form Us With Love, we just could say –“ They are so damn talented ! “. This studio was founded in 2005. You can reach them in a very nice local ...

HITOMITOI

2009.7.22　 Text: Mariko Takei

HITOMITOI attracts many people with her clear voice. Based on her spicy life traveling around the globe during her childhood, she has produced music ever since she was a high school teen. It was in the spring 2008 whe...

WING WONG

2009.7.22　 Text: Justin Tsui

As the entire world is becoming increasingly aware, trees are one of the most important parts of life on earth. Unfortunately, wood is also one of the most important resources to humanity. A Hong Kong woodworker Wing ...

DAVID QUILES GUILLó

2009.7.15　 Text: Mariko Takei

The 8 years have past since ROJO® magazine was born in Barcelona and it was featured on the past issue of SHIFT. During those years it has extremely grown up not only as a magazine but also as all sorts of media and e...

KLARA G

2009.7.14　 Text: Victor Moreno

If you are asking for the most significant expression of a colorful, romantic and artificial realism– within the Scandinavian pop culture, Klara G is the answer. A blend of photographic realism throughout truly pop m...

PERKS AND MINI

2009.7.10　 Text: Fiona Killackey

Oozing with creativity, Melbourne design duo Perks and Mini (aka Shauna T and Misha Heollenback) spend their days expanding their artistic empire with fashion, books, installations, collaborations and artwork as well ...

JACO HAASBROEK

2009.7.6　 Text: Bertina Appel

Besides having an interesting surname, (“haas” meaning rabbit and “broek” meaning pants), Jaco Hassbroek’s name and art is spreading fast around South Africa. Born in Pretoria; Jaco now lives in Cape Town, doing priva...

YOKO HIGASHINO

2009.6.25　 Text: Mariko Takei

Having received many awards including the TOYOTA Choreography Award in 2004 as one of the leading choreographers in the next generation, Yoko Higashino is a contemporary dancer and choreographer whose improvisational ...

KIM CASCONE

2009.6.23　 Text: Shintaro Miyazaki

The first time I noticed the name Kim Cascone, was maybe 8 years ago, when I researched a bit about experimental electronic music. He founded 1999 a now very big mailinglist-community called microsound, which formed a...