[rohrpost] SHIFT061 UPDATE, DEC. 2001
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S H I F T 0 6 1 U P D A T E D E C E M B E R 2 0 0 1
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C O N T E N T S
I N T E R V I E W W I T H M O C C U
The cover of this month was designed by Moccu, a young
design agency based in Berlin, Germany which is run among
others by Jens Schmidt.
Here you can find a whole world of different characters based
in a surrealistic environment. It all seems to be a bunch of
organic live which developed out of tin and plastic.
Everywhere one goes one finds interactive games like the
Moccu reef and the moccu lab. We asked moccu about their
work and the future of experience environments.
D S O S 1
After having established its reputation as guide to the weird
and wonderful world of contemporary design, the
berlin-based graphic design e-zine Designershock now has
brought out their first book, published by Die Gestalten,
Germany. Not only their extravagant optics, also the numerous
interviews and features with the most prominent players of
the international design community.
8 0 0 * 6 0 0
Dream Interactive, a Budapest-based design company, has
recently been voted one of the Top Ten agencies of Hungarian
webdesign. In spring 2000, dream.design brought out Inertia,
Hungary's first webdesign focused infosite with daily updated
news. At the moment, they are working hard to bring out
800*600, a graphic design album featuring the world's
leading designers. We spoke to Peter Hamza, one of Dream
Interactive's key figures.
C T R L S P A C E E X H I B I T I O N
In Germany last month a much noticed exhibition has opened
its doors. Karlsruhe's ZKM (Center for Art and Media), is
staging 'Ctrl Space', the first large scale event on the
rhetorics of surveillance, including 59 artists in one huge
show. Wandering through ZKM's atriums, one discovers various
ways the artists approach the topic of surveillance.
S A L E X H I B I T I O N
Electric Sal, the Tokyo- based design-, music-, art-,
computer-, and creative-ezine. And also now only the third
issue is out, this time under the topic of 'Faces', Sal Magazine
has quickly become renowned for featuring a number of
creators important in both the japanese and international
design scene. Flipping through the pages, one finds funky
design, full page fotographs, double page graphics, and all
mixed with some interesting articles and others. Let's now
really take a stroll through Sapporo over to Soso Cafe and
have a look at their exibition.
G A S D V D 2
GasDVD2 was released on November 22th. It focuses on the
visual works that have been included in the past Gasbook
series and recompiles them into a DVD. This is the second
edition of the DVD series. It features the works of 10 artists
- Tomato, tDR, H5, Katsuki Tanaka, Alex & Martin, Runwrake,
Namaiki, Why Not Associates, Skot and Power Graphixx. The
catalogue, package design and art direction was done by
Hideki Inaba as well as the first edition.
F L A S H F O R W A R D A M S T E R D A M
This year the international internet festivals were very hot.
Full of talent designers a multimedia developers searching
for new concepts and the final conformation of a worlwide
language in web design. Flash Forward 2001 one of the most
important meetings of the year landed in Amsterdam the last
month, with three fully days of great presentations and
conferences.
D E S I G N I N D A B A
From February 27th to March 1st, 2002 the 5th International
Design Indaba takes place in Cape Town. Since seven years,
the International Design Indaba has grown to become a major
event on the global design calendar. The fifth, now as long as
3 days, will be the biggest yet. The underlying theme for this
conference has always been: Design In The Service Of
Communication.
W W W H A T A W A R D
One year after the last Macromedia web contest was
launched, now the time has come to subscribe to the 01/02
event. This years' award is again organized by IdN. If you live
in the Asia-Pacific region this is the chance to show your
work and get international attention. The contest surely is
going to show lots of interesting new web projects, so that
the world will get an impression of contemporary asian
pacific web design. The competition will be closed on 31
January 2002.
T H I N K T H E E A R T H
The earth is surrounded by twenty two creations. Twenty-two
creators full of of ideas gathered under the theme of "Think
the Earth". By Inviting Mr Naoki Sato, who is the executive in
Asyl Design, as an art director, this project was held as a
collaboration with the second issue of the design magazine
Neut (which is edited by him). Many creators who have been
featured in Neut participated in this project. The
participating creators are: Keishi Ito, Enlightenment, Katsuki
Tanaka who has been contributing to Gasbook, Naohiro Ukawa,
Level 1 and others.
A R T G A L L E R Y B I N
This month, new gallery space 'BIN' has launched on cooperation
with Abahouse International. BIN is a showcase and repository
for artworks in the digital era. It is intended as a place for
artists to exhibit and archive their digital artworks. Future plans
include compiling contributed artworks on CD-ROM and in printed
catalogues and mounting exhibitions in galleries worldwide.
Altzero 3 by Squid Soup, London is featured this month.
T O K Y O C U T I E G I R L S
Featuring street fashion photos in ever changing Tokyo. One
of the popular features, 'Tokyo Cutie Girls' returns!
I N F O - W O R L D 0 5 1
What's happening around borderground? Correspondents for
Shift dwelling on the edge of the world contribute monthly to
Info-World. Shift presents your direct source from the
borderground culture of the world.
This month features: 'Interger Hong Kong Pavillion' from Hong
Kong, the desital festival 'What Do You Want To Do With It?'
from London, the design event 'The First Design-technology
Meeting in Hamburg' from Hamburg, the museum 'The Espacio
Uno' from Madrid, 'Worms Festival' from SIngapore, the fashion
brand 'W.M.E.V.V.J.' from Amsterdam, the event featured Shynola
'Sound Republic 2' and others.
G R E E T I N G C A R D
Brand new greeting cards designed by Saas Fee are ready for
you. This service is designed to give you the possibility of
creating a personal greeting page on the internet for any
special person you like. Please give it a try!
S E A R C H
Now you can search any contents within Shift through Google.
Where's that article? Where's the information you're looking
for? Try it now!
P R E S E N T
Download the original screensaver made by the German
designer group 'Desigershock' which has been featured in this
issue to commemorate the release of the graphic album
'DSOS1'.
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