Originally done for the Tokyo Urban Paper Show, “World’s Best Dad” is an expansion on my “NaniDad and the Peeps” set which is still available on my Etsy site.
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Here’s a recent piece I did for Fast Company magazine about a new kind of thermostat that is controlled by breath alone.
It’s a poster, it’s a papertoy, it’s both!
Here’s my poster for the Urban Paper show that I’m organizing in Tokyo. It will be at Café Pause in Ikebukuro and will run from Sept. 7th to the 20th. Since not everyone who was in the book will be in the show, I didn’t want to use the photo collage from previous shows that included all the designs. I also wanted to come up with something that more generically addressed the idea of papertoys and could actually BE a papertoy as well, but one that could also work as a flat image. So the poster is also the “official” mascot of the Tokyo show.
To get your own mascot for free, click here.
Hey all, please check out my new imagekind shop! You can pick up all sorts of prints and postcards, including “Open”, shown above.
I was psyched to receive this in the mail last week. It had been almost a year(?) since the publisher, Korero Books, contacted me about including an illustration I had done for a flyer promoting the burlesque musical act of a couple of friends, Cherry Typhoon and Satoko. Satako belts out the tunes and commands the organ (as well as a variety of drums, whistles, etc), while Cherry mesmerizes the crowd with her ample figure and outsized stage persona. They blend aspects of both Japanese and burlesque performance traditions with humor and sexuality. It’s like some crazy Tom Waits meets Kabuki!
Besides showing an amazing array of contemporary work being done, the book is also a great resource of historical posters, highlighting some real gems of the past. The book is full of amazing, sometimes outrageous imagery, and I’m really glad to have been included.
A few months ago I was contacted by what I had thought was an online only Korean design magazine called “w.e.b.” (you can see from whence my confusion sprang), asking me if I’d like to submit some images and do an interview with them. Sure, why not….
Well, I got a very pleasant surprise the other day, when a fat, glossy magazine showed up in the mail with my interview in it. Normally I would be a bit freaked out to see my illustrations cut up and reused like this, but I’m really pretty pleased with the way it turned out!
Presenting MonkeyButts, a custom job I did for Dolly’ Oblong’s brilliant Paper Totem! series. When I can (ie: have the time…deadlines, deadlines), I love collaborating on other artist’s templates and Dolly’s design was just too good to pass up! You can download the pdf’s here and while your on Dolly’s site, check out her awesome plushies as well as her papertoys. Also, check out the recent interview she gave to the Shiny Squirrel.
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