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
Super7 brought its vision of Japanese vinyl toys to Comic-Con en masse. Popular Monster Family figures showed up in new colorways and for the first time, I saw
Portland’s Grass Hut collective and the Gargamel Japan crew united (as usual, see last year) for Comic-Con with an array of colorful and eclectic sofubi. Their soft vinyl toys included
Tokyo’s Atelier Muji is currently featuring an inspiring exhibit of artwork created by students of Watanona Elementary School. It’s called The Power of Kids. Johnny from Spoon and Tamago explains: If you go
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
Mike Egan is a Pittsburgh-based artist with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree AND a diploma from Pittsburgh’s Institute of Mortuary Science. This unlikely education uniquely qualifies Egan
As we reach the end of June, the days are longer and more artists, designers and makers continue to join Instagram. This week’s Instagram Roundup shows a forecast
Haroshi has created a new series of hand-carved feet inside ‘invisible’ sneakers for Art Basel this year. As is Haroshi’s technique, the feet are all made from old
After this week’s news that someone paid $93K for a pair of Nike sneakers “designed” by Kanye West, I needed to replace “gross” with “growth”. Enter Japanese shoe
In case you haven’t noticed, while the blogosphere is being inundated with press releases for more colorways of the same designer toys, Instagram is the new frontier for