KARIN HOFKO

2008.10.14　 Text: Yurie Hatano

Following to Salotezmo, this month's another cover collaboration with Shift Calendar artists is a German media artist living in New Zealand, Karin Hofko aka KIR ROYAL. Enjoy her cover work and the following interes...

NADèGE WINTER

2008.10.10　 Text: Mariko Takei

Nadège Winter used to be a head PR for colette for the past 6 years. She lives in Paris and now owns her own company as a creative director and an event consultant. She is also a producer, a programmator, a designer, ...

SALOTEZUMO

2008.9.30　 Text: Yurie Hatano

12 winning works for SHIFT 2009 CALENDAR was finally announced. This month's SHIFT cover features 2 creators from those selected artists. The one for the first half of October is a Tokyo based young artist Salotezum...

ON ZA LINE

2008.9.29　 Text: Vicente Gutierrez

ON ZA LINE make beautiful ceramic works that delicately mimic and reflect nature’s subtle forms and functional qualities. So far, ON ZA LINE have produced three unique collections of works which have been sought after...

LY

2008.9.29　 Text: Kazumi Oiwa

Twinkly, transient, and heartrending...flabby black and white creatures. Ly draws fantastic creatures which live in her inner world. The characteristic of her drawing is transient view of the world. Freakish creatu...

CHEUNG LIK

2008.9.29　 Text: Justin Tsui

After a few years working in a wide range of design fields, the new fashion talent Cheung Lik has decided to start her own brand – “wear-and-tear” this year. She has taken the craft of knitting to the next level and i...

LEO OBSTBAUM

2008.9.23　 Text: Yurie Hatano

The graphic identity and pictograms for the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games are unveiled this September. The Vancouver 2010 graphic identity features many illustrated textures drawn from Canada’s n...

LUCILA BODELóN

2008.9.16　 Text: Gisella Lifchitz

Lucila Bodelón has many pockets and they’re all full of gifts. She has pockets in her dress and in her house. All of her cameras have them also. Her skies, her landscapes and the little books. The portraits and swe...

YOSHIHIDE OTOMO

2008.9.16　 Text: Mariko Takei

Yoshihide Otomo, who has been around all over in the fields such as free jazz, impromptu live session, noise music, modern music, electronic music, film soundtrack. His exhibit "ENSEMBLES" which opened at Yamaguchi ...

CASPER CHAN

2008.9.5　 Text: Justin Tsui

Casper Chan as known as Disinlok is an up-and-coming young artist in Hong Kong. Being in a competitive design industry, Casper stands out from the young talents with his stunning illustration portraits, which contain ...

ERIK NATZKE

2008.9.2　 Text: Yurie Hatano

The Shift cover of this month was created by Erik Natzke, an interactive designer who is constantly trying to blur the lines between design and technology. With a keen awareness for how and where to push the limits o...

AKIYOSHI MISHIMA

2008.8.28　 Text: Mariko Takei

Akiyoshi Mishima is an artist, who brings his ability into full play as an art director and an image director in the graphic art group Enlightenment led by Hiro Sugiyama. Also, on his solo-project, he unfolds his own...