FROG NATION
In 1992, he succeeded in the event 'Tokyo Gamer's Night Groove' that made games had an impression as Otaku and club culture unite. Then he established the indies techno label 'Frogman Records' with several partners, a...
In 1992, he succeeded in the event 'Tokyo Gamer's Night Groove' that made games had an impression as Otaku and club culture unite. Then he established the indies techno label 'Frogman Records' with several partners, a...
In November, 1998, "Amsterdam Impact" - a talk salon by a media activist Geert Lovink from the Netherland - was held at Shibuya XP in Tokyo. At the salon there was an another guest talk session which was taken by Shu ...
The design team 'Chman' who deals with interactive design on web in the north of France, Lille produced the cover graphic of this month. They build up their original style with flash making use of characters based on...
There's nothing wrong with a bit of intellectualising; especially if it helps you understand what the hell it is you're doing, sitting there in the studio with you're little mouse wriggling around in your hand all day...
Observing the font boom amongst the young designers, one can tell that fonts are a very good mean to express the designers' identity. Then, how about 'patterns'? As there have been many different 'patterns' out there ...
Immediate Profitability is very important in Hong Kong market therefore people put products which are in fashion into the market, one after another. As the result, so called trends change very fast. In other words, Ho...
Overlapping/Intersecting - Farmers Manual Words definitely have associations. When I first saw the name, or heard the name Farmers Manual a lot of images came to mind. Things like tractors, fields, and cows to name a ...
Tree-Axis is a multimedia studio based in San Francisco and founded by Stella Lai and Krister Olsson. Formerly associated with FutureFarmers, this designer-programmer collaborative team creates powerful visual languag...
The singing voice such as a transparent lake. It was my first impression when I listened to saju. She went back and forth between Japan and Peking, and produced the 3rd album. The foremost ambient musicians including ...
This month's cover design was designed by Jeremy Tai, co-founder of Fork Unstable Media in Hamburg, Germany. As you may know, he contributes to Info World Hamburg monthly. SHIFT interviewed him on his design life and ...
Everybody is going to discover soon that without the bright Meat Beat Manifesto's songs you shouldn't have heard about The Prodigy, Chemical Brothers or the big beat fashion. Both bands always pay tribute to Jack Dang...
Contemporary art, graphic design, interior design, architecture, fashion and so on, contemporary artsist Satoshi Hata's creativity are wodespread and penetrate through categories of creation. Immaculate Concept is an ...
In the 80's Nick Philip worked as a fashion designer and ran a fashion brand anarchic adjustment that shocked both the exisiting fashion and CG industry. After receiving the Best Digital Contents Award at San Francisc...
Earlier this year I was asked to assist some students in their final projects at Lausanne art school in Switzerland. One of the students, Gilles had already been involved in the running a magazine for a couple of year...
This month's cover graphic was designed by Jimmy Chen from Typographic in Los Angels. Using the structural layers and simple typefaces, he created the sophisticated flash-driven cover design. "I would like to creat...
From Hong Kong, which is in its depression, a multi-media unit 'Freaks Rendezvous' released its first album that is a set of music and visual. Freaks' style is cool and unconventional in HK music & art scenes in g...
You were by a tailor, when was this? That was ten years ago when I was 17. I quit school and had a chance through a friend to do a tailor apprenticeship. I took the offer right away and was there for 1...