Kawaii!
“When the flowers laugh we’re all happy. However there’s always the other side, if they laugh too much. Children pick this up right away, that it’s not natural, much more than adults do. For instance, when adults buy something for their children, the boys and girls immediately know why they’ve done it and in this work I wanted to convey to the children of the world that there are places with light and places without light.”
OK – please don’t call me predictable, but I’m throwing a little Lo’s List ♥’s Murakami Party – just because: he’s fresh and summery and it’s hot outside! So: first up, the collab’ with “it bag” maître, Louis Vuitton… I’ve never been too into the bags, but love the many other innovations that have come out of the partnership…
You’ve got to check out this collection of adorable oddities over at Pen Pencil Stencil! Mark Giglio grew up drawing, painting, skateboarding and surfing and his fresh, light-hearted SoCal vibe is perfectly captured in drawings of pirates with pencil peg-legs, pencil hands, pencils in a bind and tessellating pencil wallpapers (just save the image and tile it)…
The uber-stylish lagomorph known as Fifi Lapin (that’s French for Fifi the Rabbit) knows all there is to know about what’s hot on the international runway circuit. The proof is in the pudding at Fifi’s very own blog and her wardrobe archive on Flickr…
Hanpanda, created by Japanese pop artist Nagi Noda, is every split personality sufferer’s best plushie friend! There are over 100 collectible toys, each a 50/50 hybrid between a panda and one of his animal kingdom friends – there’s even a Panda-Hello Kitty blend…
Shanghai-based design duo PERK stirred up quite the buzz with their rather alien-esque Pioneer figurine collection. So perfectly executed are these characters that they were selected by London’s Victoria Albert Museum to be part of their Chinese Design Now Exhibition…
Oh the somersaults I did when I stumbled across the My Little Pony Project website! As a kid I refused most dolls and girl-focused toys but my Pony collection was vast and fanatically well-loved (little did I know it was the first sign of my vinyl toy obsession)…
This adorably f*cked up toy from Taiwan-based company Bright Ideas Design is pieced together using the features of three luck-endowing critters: a bat, a deer and a crane…