character design Archive
character
Hiroshi Yoshii is a Tokyo-based character designer and digital illustrator. Since 1999, he has created an original creature every single day. Yoshii calls his project, The Daily Work, and
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interviews
There’s another west coast migration underway–specifically east coast artists moving to LA. Among them, designer Tristan Eaton, who recently left Brooklyn to reposition his creative agency, Thunderdog Studios, in
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character
The digital illustrators at Bigshot Toyworks were asked to re-imagine Hostess’ mascot, Twinkie the Kid, for a Fortune magazine coverstory. The feature is called “Hostess is Bankrupt … Again” and
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conventions
I’m usually much too important of a person to wait in line for things, but upon the recommendation of sculptor/designer Chauskoskis and a peek through the window, I knew
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vinyl
David Chung (aka The Chung!!) stopped by the 3Dretro booth to pick up some lunch. Just kidding: The Chung!! designed the Cup-o-Noodles-style character and vinyl toy, Shrympee (previously). The
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resin
Shing Yin Khor (aka Sawdust Bear) seems to be setting up some kind of Wunderkammer at Comic-Con. “They” are trying to contain her at Small Press table P-16, but we’ll
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vinyl
Gary Ham proves himself a real renaissance man with Comic-Con 2012 releases of Wooper Looper in many mediums. One year ago at Comic-Con, Ham displayed the Wooper Looper prototype, and I made it
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studio visits
Cassie and Ernie Velasco have been making figurative art for five years as Doubleparlour. They currently reside in the artful Lower Haight neighborhood in San Francisco, a city they’ve called
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resin
Paul Shih is a Taiwanese artist, character designer, and food aficionado who lives and works in New Zealand. BEVIL, a fusebox of “Broccoli” and “Devil” is his resin toy followup
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packaging
Thanks to once-a-year visits from Sergey Safonov, I’ve become a member of the Ozersky Souvenir chocolate covered nut sweets fan club. The candies taste great, but that’s not
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