FASHION WONDERLAND

2008.4.1　 Text: Asami Miyamura

In February 2008, Viction:art, a Hong Kong based art/design publisher, has released the art book of illustration in fashion called "Fashion Unfolding" which is one of their fashion-related art book series and has be...

UT INSPIRED: NUMBER

2008.4.1　 Text: Yurie Hatano

UT Inspired vol.5 "Number" UT Inspired is a world wide design project, curators in cities become the center for artists from all over the world. Their mission, to make a T-shirt. The theme of the fifth series, cura...

AURORA

2008.2.12　

The spectacle drawn by 4 artists who have never seen an Aurora accidentally leaves an impression we've never felt before. A collection of drawings by four Tokyo-based artists, Izumi Shiokawa, Noritake, Asami Hattori,...

MOTION DECOMPOSITION VER.1.1

2008.1.31　 Text: Naoto Ogawa

I am drinking a cup of coffee at a cafe in an open-space. An ordinary BGM is coming from a counter at the right side, and an abstract sound is coming from an art shop at the left side. Then, I am surrounded by voices ...

TYPE ADDICTED

2008.1.21　 Text: Kyoko Tachibana

"Type is one of the graphic elements that designers always get addicted to play with." The Hong Kong based publisher for design and art, Viction:ary released a collection of typo-graphics, pursuing the new trend of A...

GUDBERG MAGAZINE

2008.1.7　 Text: Gudrun Rau

Gudberg Magazine is subtitled "Magazine for art, graphic, design, photography and loud thoughts". The editor claims that it’s not only another magazine about art, but the magazine itself is an artwork. This is true be...

SHIFT 2008 CALENDAR

2008.1.3　

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 1793 entries from 45 countries this year. 12 carefully selecte...

ZUNE ORIGINALS

2007.11.29　 Text: Yoshitaka Futakawa

What is Zune? You ever heard of something about it among readers? It is a Microsoft's portable media player originally released in November, 2006. To be honest with you, I rather see iPhone more frequently than Zun...

SCRATCH ON THE WALL: JAPANESE GRAFFITI

2007.10.18　 Text: Yoshihiro Kanematsu

“Scratch On The Wall: Japanese Graffiti” is the collection book of works and interviews that connects graffiti and painting. There are variety of casts: DOPPEL the live painting duo; LOOT the expert graffiti writer; Q...

REBUILD OF EVANGELION: JO (PREFACE)

2007.10.11　 Text: Shinichi Ishikawa

Rebuild of Evangelion was just released as a film version for the second time after 10 years, and it consists of four films; Jo (Preface), Ha (Breaking Up), Kyu (Rush) and the final (the title yet to be confirmed). ...

FASHION UNFOLDING

2007.9.23　 Text: Naoko Kawaguchi

Founded in 2001 in Hong Kong, Viction:ary is a design/art-oriented publisher which has been playing internationally. In summer 2007, their brand new book called “Fashion Unfolding” is released. With a main th...

NEWNEU.

2007.9.4　 Text: Yurie Hatano

It is not a designer bag but a bag which everyone can be a designer. A new bag collection of a new brand NEWNEU, "MONOLITH" has released from Corroche, which gives us new idea of creation from basic designes. "...