Entries tagged “Hello Kitty”
Hello Kitty, front cover star for Elle
Elle Taiwan honors their magazine’s 20th Anniversary with a double cover featuring Hello Kitty as a stylish fashion model (December 2011 issue). There is also a behind the scenes video for some insight behind the photoshoot of the feline icon.
Shepard Fairey’s OBEY x Hello Kitty screen print for the Sanrio Small Gifts Art Show
(via OBEY GIANT)
“At ‘Small Gift Los Angeles,’ artists say Hello Kitty” to honor Sanrio’s 50th
(above “Hello Topiary” was designed by Eric Joyner, more via Los Angeles Times)
new Hello Kitty Nerd Mimobot design launched at San Diego Comic Con
![“Hello Kitty Has Her Own iPhone Twitter Client”
“…Developed by Digital Garage, makers of the free Japanese Twitter client Tappit, Hello Kitty on Tappit [iTunes link] is a fully skinned Twitter client featuring everyone’s favorite mouthless cartoon cat. The images are all licensed by Sanrio and the app works in both English and Japanese. We’ll admit, we originally purchased this $3.99 app for the novelty factor…Here is where it gets interesting: As a Twitter client, Hello Kitty on Tappit is actually pretty awesome…” —review via Mashable](http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l3f92vxSEI1qz7nxjo1_r2_500.jpg)
“Hello Kitty Has Her Own iPhone Twitter Client”
“…Developed by Digital Garage, makers of the free Japanese Twitter client Tappit, Hello Kitty on Tappit [iTunes link] is a fully skinned Twitter client featuring everyone’s favorite mouthless cartoon cat. The images are all licensed by Sanrio and the app works in both English and Japanese. We’ll admit, we originally purchased this $3.99 app for the novelty factor…Here is where it gets interesting: As a Twitter client, Hello Kitty on Tappit is actually pretty awesome…” —review via Mashable
“The first theatrical performance to immortalize the Japanese icon, Hello Kitty The Show is a collaboration between Italian school of performing arts Mas and Hello Kitty creator Sanrio, currently on view at the Teatro Nuovo in Milan…”
—Paolo Ferrarini for Cool Hunting
(discovered via Cool Hunting, more info to follow on Hello Kitty The Show official site)
“Hello Kitty: A cool cat turns 35” today
(article via latimes.com, and link to the animated design history promo)
photos from the Hello Kitty Three Apples exhibition at Royal/T
(via Food Librarian)
more Hello Kitty birthday wishes
a few images from Three Apples: A Hello Kitty Group Show in Los Angeles, including contemporary artists Gary Baseman, Buff Monster…
(via Art MoCo, above painting by Ron English)
Hello Kitty 35th anniversary animated video promo, showing evolution of the Hello Kitty character design through the years. (via design:related)
craziest thing I’ve seen all week!
hello kitty house (discovered via free people via patent-cn)
In 2003 I heard the original designer of Hello Kitty, Yuko Shimizu speak at the TOKION Creativity Now conference. I was shocked that she didn’t make a penny in royalties, as she created the character while an employee of Sanrio.
Yuko Yamaguchi, who has designed Hello Kitty for 29 of the character’s 35 years, says Kitty did not gain in popularity until the mid-1980s.
