YOSHIDA X GAS

2006.3.12　 Text: Yurie Hatano

GAS is selling the graphic printed bags of selected artists in collaboration with ISETAN. This project was achieved by the agreement between the purport that GAS artists desired to offer a lot of expression bases ...

JAPANESE MOTION GRAPHIC CREATORS

2006.3.1　 Text: Yurie Hatano

A motion graphic creator's file with DVD "Japanese Motion Graphic Creators" was released on February from BNN Inc., featuring the expanding whole Japanese motion expression such as PV, CM, VJ, web, animation, art and ...

FIFTY BY DIESEL

2006.2.1　 Text: Yurie Hatano

Not only about fashion, DIESEL also creates lifestyles such as art and music. Renzo Rosso, who is the top of the DIESEL creative team and the president and founder of DIESEL, published "FIFTY" as a commemoration of h...

STEFAN GANDL “NEUBAU WELT”

2006.1.1　

"Neubau Welt" is an extensive encyclopedia of well over a thousand pictograms of everyday objects and obsessions large and small. They were created by designer Stefan Gandl and his Newbau team. Stefan Gandl's...

TAPE: AN EXCURSION THROUGH THE WORLD OF ADHESIVE TAPES

2005.12.1　 Text: Tim Engel

The book "TAPE: An Excursion through the World of Adhesive Tapes" is a product of a young German designer. Her name is Kerstin Finger, she is 26 years old and life in Frankfurt, Germany. She studying graphic design, a...

HIDDEN TRACK

2005.12.1　

A well known publishing company for artistic books, Die Gestalten Verlag had released "Hidden Track - How Visual Culture Is Going Places" in this October, which shows how contemporary visual culture is breaking out of...

SHIFT 2006 CALENDAR

2005.10.2　 Text: Yurie Hatano

The Shift calendar competition started in 2003 with an aim to discover fresh creators. The number of entries have increased year by year and have received 1253 entries from 47 countries this year. 12 carefully selecte...

FONS HICKMANN “TOUCH ME THERE”

2005.10.1　 Text: Tim Engel

Fons Matthias Hickmann is a 37 years old German graphic designer. He is born in Ruhrgebiet, Germany. Fons Matthias Hickmann is the fourth son of Franzi und Erwin Hickmann. Fons Hickmann lived in Duesseldorf for ten ye...

PURE AUSTRIAN DESIGN

2005.7.4　 Text: Christina Merl

PAD stands for 'Pure Austrian Design' or 342 pages of finest Austrian design with a focus on indoor and outdoor furniture and lighting. In their recently published book, Julia Taubinger and Andres Fredes from Juland a...

WK INTERACT

2005.7.2　 Text: Yurie Hatano

A collection book of "WK Interact" will be released this July from a German publisher Die Gestalten Verlag. They put all attractions of WK Interact, a French artist living in NY, into this massive book with hard cover...

THE QUARANTINE SERIES BOOK

2005.3.4　 Text: Ania Markham

© Quarantine Series This month sees the publication of 'The Quarantine Series Book' published in association with the Quarantine Series exhibitions programme, held between June 2003 and June 2004 in Amsterdam. An...

DESIGNED TO HELP

2005.3.3　 Text: Yurie Hatano

At the beginning of this year, a team from the design agency iLovedust in the UK dreamt up the idea of producing a book of graphic design, illustration and photography to raise money to help charities deal with the ts...