RODRIGO VAZQUEZ AVILA

2005.10.4　 Text: Gisella Lifchitz

The artist Rodrigo Vazquez Avila works with his hand and his mind. His artwork can be defined as purely a matter of imagination. Through a cathartic liberation, he stands in another place to see his own world. And wha...

BARABASS

2005.10.4　 Text: Jorg Heikhaus

Summer is slowly fading away, trying to warm us with its last rays of sunshine, before chilly evenings remind us of the season to come ... and help us to reminiscence about the best days of the past months ... and its...

YOFFY

2005.9.4　 Text: Reto Caduff

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...

KEN BUTLER

2005.9.4　 Text: Garry Waller

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

2005.8.2　 Text: Yurie Hatano

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...

JOSIE SYKES

2005.7.4　 Text: Ania Markham

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 ...

TROLLBACK & CO.

2005.7.4　 Text: Garry Waller

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...

HORT

2005.7.2　 Text: Yurie Hatano

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...

KATYA BONNENFANT

2005.6.2　 Text: Yurie Hatano

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. ...

TAKORA KIMIYOSHI FUTORI

2005.5.2　 Text: Yurie Hatano

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...

BLESS

2005.4.2　 Text: Peta Jenkin

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...

BOB SANDERSON

2005.4.2　 Text: Ayako Yamamoto

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...