GAY-BY MANGANO

2004.2.2　 Text: Gisella Lifchitz

"I once wrote a story about a man who absorbed everyone's pain and was slowly dying. The story ends when he dies in the middle of a downtown street while everyone around still keep transferring their pain to him. It w...

ROBERTO BAGATTI

2004.2.2　 Text: Simone Biffi

Meeting in a good restaurant, eating chicken curry, drinking wine and talking about what's happening in the Italian design scene. This what's happened some days ago in a normal sunny day in Milan... Please Robe...

CATRIN ALTENBRANDT

2004.1.4　 Text: Naoko Fukushi

Catrin Altenbrandt aka Pixelgarten, who is a freelance designer mainly working in own project, designed this issue's cover. She is one of artists who were selected from more than 500 contestants for Shift 2004 calenda...

TAKESHI MURATA

2003.12.4　 Text: Naoko Fukushi

A cover design of this month is designed by Takeshi Murata whose work was selected by one of judges, the Designers Republic in DOTMOV festival held in November. Although his animation is plane, it has made special spa...

SERGIO PANGARO

2003.12.2　 Text: Gisella Lifchitz

It's a cold rainy afternoon and I enter the traditional bar 36 Billares in Buenos Aires downtown. He's there, sitting at one of the tables, close to the window and just before I come in, he gazes at his watch with a s...

OTOLAB

2003.12.2　 Text: Simone Biffi

This month I've decided to make an interview to an interesting Milan based group of multimedia artists that are all under the name of Otolab. They make visual video mixing and multimedia exhibitions in many Italian cl...

LAURA OWENS

2003.12.2　 Text: Matt Smith

A survey of paintings by 32-year old artist Laura Owens, organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles is currently showing at the Art Museum of Milwaukee about ninety miles north of Chicago. Laura Owe...

MATMOS

2003.12.2　 Text: Krister Olsson

A few years ago I picked up a copy of Matmos' self-titled first album at Aquarius Records in San Francisco. Or was it Amoeba? I can't quite recall. I bought the album at a time when I was indiscriminately buying ridic...

GENEVIEVE GAUCKLER

2003.11.4　 Text: Naoko Fukushi

French graphic designer, Genevieve Gauckler created the cover design for this issue. She creates images by "sampling" different kinds of things into an image such as pictures, characters or everyday items. Her most un...

AICO DINKLA

2003.11.2　 Text: Ania Markham

First impressions can be deceiving and nowhere is this more evident than in the work of Aico Dinkla. He creates beautiful clothes but to call him just a fashion designer would be a disservice. To call him an artist is...

ALFREDO MARTINEZ

2003.11.1　 Text: Rei Inamoto

On one Friday night, I get a phone call from a friend asking me if I want to stop by a gallery opening. I ask him what the show was and he tells me, "Oh, some drawings and illustrations." Nothing particular to do that...

YOSHI SODEOKA

2003.10.4　 Text: Naoko Fukushi

Yoshi Sodeoka from C404, featured in this issue, is an artist based in New York who creates multi media art and music using digital noise. He contributed the cover design for this issue and is going to do a performanc...