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Honda Revives Iconic 1984 HP-X Concept for Pebble Beach 2024

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Honda is gearing up to showcase a piece of automotive history at the 2024 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance with the restored 1984 HP-X Concept. This unveiling is a historic moment, as it marks the first Japanese vehicle entry at the prestigious event in over 50 years. Continue reading »

Stunning Photos of the Restored 1984 Honda HP-X Concept

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Honda will reveal the restored 1984 HP-X Concept at the 2024 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, marking a significant moment as the first Japanese vehicle at the event in over 50 years. Continue reading »

Beautiful Floral Organic Creations by Raku Inoue

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Japanese artist Raku Inoue‘s latest work reimagines beloved pop culture characters from iconic franchises like Super Mario Bros, Pokemon, and Stranger Things as stunning floral masterpieces using organic materials like flowers, leaves, and stems. Continue reading »

Spectacular Award-Winning Photos Of The Prix De La Photographie Awards

Tape Worm by Judith Kuhn, Germany
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The Prix De La Photographie Awards, a prestigious global photography competition, has highlighted the exceptional talents of photographers worldwide, showcasing honorable mention photos across diverse categories like portrait, nature, fine art, and architecture. Each winning image tells a compelling story with remarkable skill, demonstrating the versatility and depth of contemporary photography, celebrating its power to evoke emotion, tell stories, and offer new perspectives. Continue reading »

Beautiful Illustrations by Kensuke Okazoe

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Kensuke Okazoe, an award-winning artist based in Kyoto, creates intricate contemporary artworks inspired by Japanese culture and tradition, featuring traditional designs, captivating characters, and natural symbols, and has worked on diverse projects including advertisements, book covers, and graphic design. Continue reading »

The Superb Vaporwave Neon Pop Illustrations by Dale Lendl

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Dale Lendl, also known as heymoonly, is a Filipino artist who creates electrifying cyberpunk illustrations in his “Neon Pop” series, blending internet culture, pop art, vaporwave visuals, and Japanese elements into bold, high-contrast compositions featuring strong female characters with a nostalgic 80s and 90s vibe. Continue reading »

This Korean Artist Imagines Herself as The Real-Life Cyber Doll

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Ji Soo aka EZ, merges technology with art in a fresh and personal way, using herself as a canvas to blend digital and physical elements. Continue reading »

Incredible 3D Post-Design by Amano

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I love the style of modern post design, it’s an incredible combination of 3D, tribal aesthetics, 90s Japanese design hitech and broken typography. Continue reading »

Amazing Vintage Illustrations Of Japanese Anthropomorphic Frogs and Toads

Tenjiku Tokubei by Toyokuni III in 1860.
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The Japanese term “kimo-kawaii” means “cute and ugly,” often describing anthropomorphic frogs and toads in art. Continue reading »

Japanese Food Artist Tomoko Shibata Creates Amazing Lunchboxes

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Tomoko Shibata, a food artist from Japan, has truly mastered the art of lunchbox design. From recreating famous cartoon characters to crafting festive themes for Christmas and Halloween, her creations are almost too cute to eat. Continue reading »

Bizarre Smallpox Illustration from The Japanese Manuscript, ca. 1720

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This captivating watercolor illustration is a page from “Toshin seiyo” (The Essentials of Smallpox), a two-volume Japanese manuscript on smallpox. Continue reading »

Hiro Ando’s Modern Take on the Ancient Artistic Traditions of Japan

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Hiro Ando, a notable artist who began his career in 1995 after graduating from the University of Art, has a distinct style that reflects both modern and traditional Japanese elements. Continue reading »

Peek into Espionage’s Past: A Look at Fascinating Vintage Spy Cameras

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This photo collection showcases a remarkable range of vintage cameras, including some ingeniously disguised as everyday items. Highlights include a camera hidden in a matchbox, one designed as a pocket watch for covert operations dating back to the 1880s, and others mimicking books, cigarette packs, binoculars, radios, and even handguns. Continue reading »

Anton Frolov’s Iconic Futurism

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At the beginning of his career, Anton combined the laconism of Japanese manga and the plasticity of iconography in his works. Continue reading »

The Superb 1980s Hyper-Realistic Illustrations by Japanese Artist Masao Saito

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Masao Saito, the illustrator, is celebrated for his proficiency with the airbrush, a tool he has utilized to create images that are strikingly realistic, yet carry a dreamlike quality. Continue reading »

Small Japanese Fashion Brand Creates a Godzilla Shoes in The Honor of Oscar Win

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After Godzilla’s Oscar win, a little Japanese fashion brand gains popularity. Continue reading »

The Superb Dystopian Illustrations by Mad Kobra

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The Dominican Republic-based artist Mad Kobra, also going by Pedro Carvajal, mixes vibrant colors, gritty textures, and bold lines to create amazing cyberpunk works of art. Continue reading »

Clémentine Bal’s Imaginary Creatures: A Fusion of Japanese and Natural Influences

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Clémentine Bal, a talented visual artist, creates captivating sculptures of imaginary animals that are sure to capture your heart. Inspired by Japanese influences such as manga, Miyazaki’s creatures, and traditional Japanese statues, her pieces bring together elements of nature and imagination for a delightful fusion that’s truly unique. Continue reading »

Amazing Vintage Japanese Pachimon Postcards With Famous Places Around the World

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Pachimon is a vintage series of budget bromide trading cards made by the Japanese companies Yokopro and Yamapro featuring unauthorized alterations of pre-existing kaiju collaged with other photographic elements. The term Pachimon itself is a fan-created moniker roughly reading as “stolen monsters.” Continue reading »

Would You Wear These Japanese Hoof Sandals?

High heels are hard enough to walk in– but can you imagine wearing hoof sandals?

From the looks of things, learning to walk in them would take ages. And even then, there’s still the ever-present threat of a sprained ankle just waiting for you to make one false step. But hey, that’s just part of the package if you want to look like a magical faun. Continue reading »

Japanese Instant Noodle Warriors By Taishi Arimura

Taishi Arimura is a young graphic designer based in Tokyo. At the age of 25, his eclectic body of work contains humor, wit and beauty – everything one would want in a visual designer. In one particular series of works, Arimura uses imitation food samples and actual instant noodle packaging to create ‘noodle warriors.’ We don’t know whether we want to watch them fight, or eat them. Continue reading »

Japanese Artists Continue The Tradition Of Rice Harvest Season By Creating Gigantic Straw Sculptures

Autumn is a rice harvest season in Japan. Every year, farmers make sure that the leftover rice straw, known as “wara”, does not go to waste. From feeding the cattle to improving the soil, the straw finds its purpose. In particular, Niigata province has a very creative way of using these leftover rice husks by hosting an annual event called “Wara Art Festival”. Continue reading »

“Flesh Love Returns”: Japanese Photographer Captured Intimate Photos Of Vacuum-Sealed Couples

“Flesh Love Returns” is a photo series by Japanese artist and photographer Haal who is photographing couples that he meets in nightclubs and arranges them like pieces of meat inside bags meant to store futons and blankets. He then seals their conjoined bodies inside the bag using a household vacuum that sucks out all of the air. Continue reading »

“Jewels in the Night Sea”: Japanese Photographer Captures The Underwater Life Of The Ocean Creatures

Ryo Minemizu, one of Japan’s emerging stars in the field of marine life photography and the 2017 winner of the Nikkei National Geographic photography prize, captures the beauty and complexity of plankton that drift in our planet’s oceans and other bodies of water in meticulous detail. Here: The paddle of a Lysmata zoea larva. (Photo by Ryo Minemizu/The Guardian) Continue reading »

Crocodile Trying To Do Things In Hilarious Sketches By The Japanese Illustrator Keigo

Japanese illustrator Keigo has created a series of the daily of struggles that each crocodile faces in its daily life. Turns out having a huge snout isn’t exactly convenient. Continue reading »