JOSH ULM

1999.3.30　 Text: Daniel Jenett

Josh Ulm (..about future involvements): I like to find a balance between well-known and less well-known.. People like you and Matt Owens, who is really well known, obnoxiously well known, and people you have never hea...

JODI

1999.3.30　 Text: Akira Natsume

JODI is a unit of two artists, Joan and Dirk, based in Barcelona, Spain. You can view their works as you access to the internet, but those installation-like radical works seems often to drive the machines into crash. ...

ANDY SLOPSEMA

1999.3.30　 Text: Mayumi Kaneko

This month's cover design is produced by Andy Slopsema who makes beautiful and very subtle stuffs with Flash. You can see them on his own site Combine and also Remedi Project etc. Andy is based in San Francisco, wh...

CHAPPIE

1999.3.22　 Text: Akira Natsume

Nowadays it gets warmer and springlike. Today is the 3rd of March, the Girl's Festival and also the special day for 'CHAPPIE', the charactor playing dress-up created by GROOVISIONS, and the precious day for CHAP...

FROG NATION

1999.2.26　 Text: Akira Natsume

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...

SHU LEA CHEANG

1999.1.29　 Text: Mariko Takei

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 ...

CHMAN

1999.1.29　 Text: Satoru Tanno

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...

EYE MAGAZINE

1999.1.22　 Text: Nicolas Roope

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...

DESIGNINGS

1998.12.22　 Text: Akira Natsume

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 ...

OTTO CHAN

1998.12.22　 Text: Shinobu Koike

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...

FARMERS MANUAL

1998.12.22　 Text: Jeremy Tai

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

1998.12.22　 Text: Kanya Niijima

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...