BLUEBERRYFROG

2001.4.25　 Text: Zorro

How can an idea so small be so right? How do you create a phenomenon? How do you generate so much brand heat that you're the talk of the town in London? New York? Berlin? Or Tokyo? How do you get that brand to s...

HEXSTATIC

2001.4.19　 Text: Mayumi Kaneko

Hexstatic made their talents becomes widely known with ColdCut's CD-ROM 'Let Us Play'. Most of you may know them for their works included in Gasbook 6 &7. Their full album entitled 'Rewind' treated sound and visio...

ME COMPANY

2001.4.9　 Text: Mayumi Kaneko

This month's cover design was produced by Me company, a London-based design company. The purpose of the company is to produce strong and original imagery from graphic design, advertising, character design, character a...

ETIENNE MINEUR

2001.3.25　 Text: Jerome Lacote

I met Etienne Mineur during my studies at Paris VIII University. He was providing graphic design lessons. He has been working as an independent art director since the beginning of the multimedia era. He achieved pres...

RINZEN

2001.3.8　 Text: Mayumi Kaneko

This month's cover design was produced by Rinzen based in Queensland, Australia. Bending reality into shapes pleasing to the eye and the ear, Rinzen aligns the creative directions of the six members in print and web d...

FRANCIS LAM

2001.2.25　 Text: Calvin Ho

Hi it's the GraphixBoiy reporting from HongKong. This month I interview the biggest double nose job you can see on the web and it's from Hong Kong. It is rare to see young designers exploring their own territory in ou...

EBOY

2001.2.7　 Text: Mayumi Kaneko

This month's cover design was produced by 'eBoy' based in Berlin and New York. Their colorful and original pixel-based design such as robots, cities and people delight the viewers' eyes. They're difinitely one of the ...

COLIN METCALF

2001.2.7　 Text: Rei Inamoto

In four short years, Resfest has managed to become the epicenter of digital filmmaking. Not only the festival features some of the world's finest designers and filmmakers, the art direction of the festival itself dese...

MICROMUSIC

2001.1.25　 Text: Andrew Sinn

Micromusic is a web-community dedicated to "low tech music for high tech people". It started out with the Microstation that can play the music a lot of Commodore64-games and developed into a platform for music-p...

ONE9INE

2001.1.6　 Text: Mayumi Kaneko

The first issue of the New Year and also the commemorative 50th issue of Shift features a cover design by a design agency 'One9ine' headed by Matt Owens and Warren Corbitt. 'One9ine' composed of Matt Owens, Warren ...

MIDGETVIDEO

2000.12.25　 Text: Jiro Ohashi

The 'Buro 30: Electronicaccident Experimental Express 2000' event was held for three days from November 3rd to 5th at CAY (basement of Spiral Hall) in Aoyama. Buro is the event which has showcased 'new forms of electr...

STRAWBERRYFROG

2000.12.25　 Text: Jay Taylor

StrawberryFrog, a new kind of amphibious strategic and creative communications agency in the heart of Amsterdam, has quickly made a name for itself fighting the world's most ominous dinosaurs. Frog vs. the din...