hello!The Roger la Borde sent me some photos from their show at the Liberty in London. They made some super nice products for this season, I especially like the note book with my "strawberry run" image :-) Will upload some photos of the products once it arrives in NY.
Love Love Love them!!! thank you Tim from Roger la Borde, and my friends Roberta for sending some pictures~ xoxo
Roger la Borde is a really nice card and stationery company located in London.And my new line is coming out this Fall!!! Yappy~
Now it's a London Design Week, Roger La Borde is having a pop up show at a department store "Liberty" in London. Featuring my small embroidery series, small silk screen prints, and their new lines of cards~!!!
I'm very excited, but sad I can't be there to see it... If you are in London, please stop by and take a picture for me~ hehehe The exhibition runs till the end of October.
Embroidery series:
Art Hustle is a new company that prints artists' trading cards, for their First edition, I'm in it! and I just got some Artist Proof~My friend Tara McPherson and Metropolis Gallery are also in this edition!
ohh the photo is so blurrrry~ :-D but you get the idea, right?!
I finally got the figure by mail!yeeey~ so cute! It didn't come with a string so I tied a thread. looks good.
Last Thursday I went to the Dunny 2010 trading party at KidRobot SOHO Store in NY. It was a whole new experience for me!
My Dunny was 1/400, really hard to get, so I was a bit worry if anyone will get them... then BoooM! first boy through the door got it!!! I was so happy, it was a first time for me too to see my new Toy!
There were 2 artists Travis Cain and Damarak the Destroyer were also there for signing, Travis did a balloon head Dunny and Damarak did a transparent Dunny, both are super cool, it's really good to see other designers :-D
We were sitting behind a table and signing. And also drawing on some blank figures people brought. Everybody were so nice, and it was nice to talk to them and hear what people thought about the designs and etc.
In one night there were 3 people (only...) pulled out my super rare Dunny from blind boxes. 2 boys and one woman. They seemed excited and really like the design which made me happy :-D
Party was great! And the people working at the store were super nice,too. Thank you KidRobot! Thank you my friends for coming out to support me, and all the Dunny lovers that I met...so nice to meet you!
(extra extra) My friend sent me this photo from another party in West Coast. photo of a girl who've got my Toy. she looks so happy and this photo really made my day!
hello! exciting news, my artist profile is now featured in KRonikle website! (website for kidRobot) yeeey~http://kronikle.kidrobot.com/aya-kakeda-artist-profile/
please visit and Comment~ will be nice to hear from you~ :-D thank you! xo aya
I had a great opportunity to design a thaumatrope with the paper toy company Noted.I remember I had one when I was a kid.
After brainstorming, I did small sketches to share my ideas with an art director from Noted.
We decided to go with the "Bear eating Girl" so I worked on a final version... First I drew them in a white back ground using brush and sumi ink, then guache to color. Then the company realized that thaumatrope works best in lightly colored background. (i didn't know either!) So I colored the back ground cream yellow by computer.
and they just sent me the final product! it's really nicely packaged and super cute!
you can visit Noted here: http://www.notedco.com/spin.html
New website "Seen" conjunction with CBCDF (Comic Book Legal Defense Found) I designed a sneaker!it was super fun, I love drawing on non flat surfaces. This is going to be Auction it off at San Diego Comic-Con this year.
And here is my dear friend Pierre modeling for me + Alexis as a modeling coach :-) Thank you Pierre et Alexis!
here is the post at New York Times Magazine Blog: http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/tag/aya-kakeda/
KidRobot Launching their new Dunny Series, this series are special, all by Female Artists!!!My good friends Wendi Koonts, Sara Varon, and Tara McPherson are all in this series :-) this is so exciting!
I love working with KidRobot, they make such a great final product!
This is how I work with them. in the begging I make a sketches and the color information.
And they start sculpting with clay
and then after few adjustments they start making the color sample.
I love seeing the process and excite me every time when they send me a photos of their clay models :-)
YEY Fatale series! And Sara, Wendi and Tara's Dunnys looks super great!!!
More info you can check here : http://kronikle.kidrobot.com/preview-dunny-fatale-series/
