[rohrpost] Shift Magazine Mail News April Issue 2004 updated
Timo Linsenmaier
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Fre Apr 16 07:56:52 CEST 2004
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Shift Magazine Mail News April Issue 2004 updated
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Shift Magazine Mail News delivers you the latest issue digest on
the day of Shift update (every 10th).
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This month's cover: Saiman Chow
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April Issue 2004 Contents
01) Cover & Interview: Saiman Chow
02) 7th Media Arts Festival Exhibition Report
03) The Armory Show 2004 Report
04) Chisato Shinya Exhibition Report
05) Tujiko Noriko In Japan
06) Post Panic Interview
07) May 1st Reboot
08) Tekko 03
09) Visionaire 42
10) Tokyo TDC Annual Awards Exhibition Report
11) Diesel + Lobo DVD Lost Paradise
12) Online Greeting Card: Rex Koo
13) Info World
14) Present
15) Editor's notes
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01) Cover & Interview: Saiman Chow
The designer for this issue's cover is Saiman Chow, born in Hong
Kong and grown up in US. He is broadening his active field greatly
as proved that he has just finished a Nike project, "Art of Speed".
In his art work, there seems rich multi-cultural essence brought
by his unique background. Let's probe into his roots.
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02) 7th Media Arts Festival Exhibition Report
The exhibition for award winning works of the 7th Media Arts
festival was held at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of
Photography from February 27th to March 7th. This event is
organised by the Culture Agency to encourage artists and provide
an opportunity for them to show their works to a wider public
with an aim to develop Japanese media arts.
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03) The Armory Show 2004 Report
The lingering smell of beef quesadilla and chili from our rushed
lunch filled the freight elevator as we waited to get into the
Armory Show on a blustery March day in New York City. While
standing in line to purchase our tickets, two women slipped us
their museum passes, and we waltzed in to enjoy the show
gratis. Slowly making our way through the crowd clustered near
the coat check, our eyes were greeted by Tony Matelli's
gruesomely lifelike sculpture of a chimpanzee caught in the
charming moment after vomiting. Perhaps this was an omen of
what awaited us?
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04) Chisato Shinya Exhibition Report
Chisato Shinya, a Sapporo based illustrator who did the Shift
cover design for the March issue, held an exhibition called
"Imagine Story" at Soso in March. In this exhibition, she created
a kind of picture book with only illustrations , removing words
from the story which she has so far kept in her mind. It enables
you to be the storyteller, crafting your own story. In the opening
event, inviting visual creator Kimiyoshi Futori and sound creator
Kentaro Hamasato as guests, they presented a fantastic night.
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05) Tujiko Noriko In Japan
Do you know a female artist, named Tujiko Noriko? She debuted
on an Austrian experimental label, Mego in 2001. Now she lives
in Paris but works world wide. She has been participating in
several international festivals such as Transmediale in
February, Sonar and Mutek. As the first place of her Japan live
tour, she chose Soso in snowy Sapporo on March 20th.
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06) Post Panic Interview
PostPanic is an Amsterdam creative agency specializing in film,
motion graphics and print media. It was founded in 1997 by its 3
creative directors Mischa Rozema, Jules Tervoort and Mark
Visser and is also home to producer Ania Markham. PostPanic
deals direct with clients producing and directing projects from
concept through to delivery but also works with other agencies
in a specialist capacity. Their current list of clients include
Nike, MTV and Dutch multi-national, DSM.
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07) May 1st Reboot
May 1st Reboot is a project that all participants reboot their
web site on May 1st and attract attention to web design.
On April 25th, participants put up the "Reboot Holder" in place of
their respective web sites. Then on May 1st, their Rebooted sites
are launched. For the following week, a contest is held. Winners
are chosen by the Reboot panel of judges. Their decisions are
influenced by public interaction with the voting system which is
also activated on May 1st.
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08) Tekko 03
Tekko, based in Canada, is going to hold an exhibition both in
Toronto and Singapore to show print and motion pieces by 39
artists and designers.
Tekko is an on-going, project-based design collaboration
between the Tekko Collective and the international design
community, started in 2001.
Tekko03 is the 3rd exhibition, and will feature 42 print pieces
and 19 motion pieces by 39 world wide artists and designers
under the theme of "Future Beautiful".
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09) Visionaire 42
Visionaire is a multi-format album of fashion and art, produced
in exclusive limited editions. Its web site was redesigned in
collaboration with Tronic Studio, a design studio based in New
York to extend the brand of Visionaire into an online space.
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10) Tokyo TDC Annual Awards Exhibition Report
TDC, Tokyo Type Directors Club, involves an extensive and deep
pursuit into the visual expressions of letters, going far beyond
conventional character designing. An exhibition of the 14th
international annual design competition "Tokyo TDC Annual
Awards" will be held in Tokyo and Osaka.
In the exhibition, you can enjoy about100 works which include:
winning works, the prize nominee works and the other excellent
works from around the world.
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11) Diesel + Lobo DVD Lost Paradise
The Brazilian design and animation studio Lobo recently created
a collaborative DVD with Diesel's Creative Team. Lobo has
recently received a lot of attention from the US, Europe and Asia
in various fields like animation, advertising design, music
videos, TV commercials and web sites.
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12) Online Greeting Card: Rex Koo
Rex Koo's online greeting card is now on Shift Factory! Five
variations with plenty of humor and fun are available.
He studied graphic design and University of Salford . After
graduating in 1999, he worked for shya-la-la workshop as a
graphic designer until 2001. Afterward he established his
personal web site rex-air.net.
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13) Info World
What's happening around the borderground? Correspondants for
Shift dwelling on the edge of the world contribute monthly to
Info-World.
This month's IW topics are the following. From Amsterdam, The
Quarantine Series , the latest addition to Amsterdam's
contemporary art scene. From LA, a street artist group FAILE.
From NY, ChikaLicious, a dessert bar which "design dessert".
From San Francisco, interview with a textile designer, Jason
Trevino. From Paris, the 6th Nemo film festival. From London,
The Graduate Centre, London Metropolitan University designed by
Daniel Libeskind. From Madrid, Festival Edicion Madrid (F.E.M.).
From Milan, interview with Luc Ferrari. From Lisbon, a fashion
event, Aquae Fashion Market 2004. From Vienna, an interactive
sound installation, Pars Pro Toto. From Buenos Aires, interview
with a 14-member-collective having a exhibition, Transit. From
Vancouver, a drawing show To The Point. Let's go around the
world enjoying IW.
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14) Present
This issue's present is an original T-shirt designed by Saiman
Chow, featured in cover design and interview and a special
wooden box package DVD (with an original magnetic stuff)
created in collaboration between Diesel and Lobo, a design
animation studio in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Each of them is given to
three people. The deadline will be April 30th, 2004.
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15) Editor's notes
It's April. Japanese strongest image of April would be cherry
blossom. Pinkish soft beautiful flowers. It is Japanese
favourites from a long time ago. There is a traditional custom
that we go on a picnic to see flowers and have a party under the
trees but I have never done such picnic so I'm thinking to do it
for this year. Next this column would be about the experience! (N)
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