YOFFY
As a young artist, Los Angeles based Yoffy has already grasped the basics of making it in the fickle art business. With a short, one word name, Yoffy has already become a brand, a label that sticks to his sleek, minim...
As a young artist, Los Angeles based Yoffy has already grasped the basics of making it in the fickle art business. With a short, one word name, Yoffy has already become a brand, a label that sticks to his sleek, minim...
Back in March, I moved into a 2nd floor loft apartment in Brooklyn, having been looking for a change of scenery from my last place of four years. It was only a matter of time before I heard bizarre noises coming from ...
Wabisabi, a design unit, whose stronghold is in Sapporo just same as SHIFT, did the SHIFT cover this month. You may know they released their original card game "CROW&TRASH" from SHIFT Factory before. This July, th...
Amsterdam is often described as a small town rather than a big city and this ring trues when you start recognizing faces at various events. Photographer Josie Sykes (31) is one of those people I was introduced to and ...
This article in New York focuses on a Creative Design House Trollback & Co. a bicoastal creative studio whose ranks I have recently joined (now three months in). They create design for a range of disciplines, from...
In this Shift issue, Eike and Martin from Hort, a design studio in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, designed the cover. Their design, which is unique and has a sense of humor, is well known in German music industry. They a...
This month's cover is done by a French designer Katya Bonnenfant whose designs are cute and powerful. Searching for "strange" things or ideas, she creates music, animation, videos, and more in a vigorous way. ...
This month's cover is designed by TAKORA Kimiyoshi Futori, who is a visual creator and well-known to SHIFT for his collaboration with Chisato Shinya. He has offered his visuals to a picture book Andersen (Die Gerstalt...
It's a remarkable case of two great minds thinking alike, when Desire Heiss and Ines Kaag, both from Germany, teamed up in 1996 to create their seminal fashion label BLESS, which has become internationally acclaimed t...
The person who has taken charge of the cover design for this edition is Bob Sanderson who used to be a chief designer of The Designers Republic (TDR) and established his own studio in 2004. We interviewed him and dis...
Serum vs. Venom was conceived as the antidote to the mass consumer culture that dominates the street wear market. Offering deliberate, meticulously researched and personally tailored items, SVSV is quietly taking ove...
Moving With Movies is a group of young video artists who started their creative work in 2001 and now have a company of young people, fully equipped with minds and ideas and impetuous to demonstrate their works to the ...
Amsterdam-based artist Petra Hart, started the Fam.Li five years ago after designing a series of faces and suddenly realizing they were like a big family. By giving them names and characters, they took on a life of th...
When I first met David 3 years ago, he was living in a Mission District flat with a bunch of buddies. One Friday night, my friends (who already knew David) and I all showed up to his place in anticipation of a night o...
Big Active, a notable design studio in London that deals with art direction, graphic design and creative management. Their field is pretty wide, having worked on CD sleeves like Basement Jaxx, publicity, fashion, leis...
I first met Danny Brown at the Madrettor conference in Rotterdam during the fall of 2002. The first thing I remember thinking was "Holy shit, it's Danny Brown from Noodlebox"; the second being: "...we wear the same Pr...
G-Lab aka Bumstein & Garbstein are interdisciplinary art group founded by two artists Arturas Bumsteinas and Laura Garbstiene during the exhibition Parallel Progressions 3 in the fall of 2002 in Contemporary Art C...