Takashi Murakami - Flower Ball (Kindergarten Days) - 2007
Kaikai Kiki - Flower Ball Plush - 2009
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Tag - Takashi Murakami
10/22/09
From the lithograph to the plush
By Melanie Crete on 10/22/09, - Virtual Moods & Real Trends
06/27/09
A MOBILE DOWNLOAD VIDEO FOR VUITTON
By Melanie Crete on 06/27/09, - 3D Brands
Takashi Murakami, you remember this name right? Back in 2003 the Japanese artist came up with a special-edition pattern to be used on those famous Louis Vuitton handbags...
Then people started to call him the new Warhol (lame isn't it?!), and then there was that big Murakami exhibit in L.A. in 2007, then it went to Brooklyn, then Murakami did Kanye’s “Graduation” cover... And now, well... the whole thing starts again with a new series of little wallets in a multicolored print that, let’s be honest, looks almost exactly like the colorful 2003 print...
Anyway. To celebrate 6 years of collaboration Murakami and Vuitton also worked on a (slighly annoying) five-minute video called Superflat First Love, available as a mobile download in Japan.
04/28/09
VUITTON x MURAKAMI QR CODE
By Melanie Crete on 04/28/09, - 3D Brands
I heard those abstract QR codes are the codebars of the future... What is it all about? To make it short a QR code stores URLs, when you see a QR code (in the street, in a magazine...) you scan the QR code with the camera of your phone (FYI you must have a camera phone equipped with the correct reader software), your phone browser will immediately launch the programmed URLs... Yey! Very common in Japan they basically look like this:
Yes I do agree, not so attractive.
Here comes the stylish version, the Louis Vuitton x Takashi Murakami QR code.
Produced by Tokyo based creative agency SET, this colourful code features one of Murakami’s characters and the classic LV pattern. Kawai!