Japan

The private Museum — the Calouste Gulbenkian in Lisbon, Portugal — has a large Japanese embroidery with four phoenixes that dates back to the 19th century. It is made of silk and gold threads. In Asia, the Phoenix is imperial house, fire, justice, sun, obedience, fidelity, or ...

Pop-up books are amazing 3D things, miracles of design when closed turn into a regular flat book. Do you remember the books with three-dimensional illustrations from childhood? It was possible to move some items or characters. Now pop-up books have become a whole art direction! Even more impressive ...

On March 20, the Cherry Blossom Season has officially opened in Japan. "Hanami", a traditional admiring of flowering trees, begins with the first blossoming plum or cherry flower and lasts only 7-10 days until the petals fall. Favorable temperature for cherry and plum blossom starts from ...

I continue my compilation of unusual insects that excite imagination and push for new types of creativity! I want to introduce you unusual insects by Hiroshi Shinno, a Japanese artist and sculptor. Hiroshi Shinno was born in Kyoto in 1979. He studied at the Kyoto University of Art and Design and at ...

The unusual work of Nasa Funahara, a Japanese artist, derived from her unusual hobby. A few years ago she started collecting... washi tape bobbins. When her collection grew to 450 items of all possible shapes and colors, it became clear that their use in art was just a matter of time. One day, Nasa ...

Tatsuya Tanaka, a Japanese artist, is known worldwide as the creator of the project "Miniature Calendar", which he began in April 2011 and continues this work till now. Every day a photo of tiny characters in modern world appears in the calendar. The main pecularity is that the real things ...

On the last day of the exhibition I managed to see the work of incredible person Andrey Ostashov and was stunned beyond speech :) The "Erarta" (a modern art museum in St.Petersburg) exhibited his work of the last twenty years. They are mostly fairy-tale characters with the combination of ...

Kanzashi by the Japanese artisan Sakae are familiar to many lovers of unusual jewelry around the world. Large flowers with delicate petals, fragile branches of flowering trees, miniature flowers, physalis, butterflies and whimsical cascading garlands are the main motifs of her works. It is worth ...

In general terms, a seed bead or a simple bead is a bead with a hole, made of different materials: stone, bone, seed, shell, glass or plastic. The word is of Old English origin, and translated from Old Greek as "a prayer". Since ancient times, beads (seed beads) were used as ritual ...

Ruby Silvious is an artist from New York. She draws amazing miniature paintings on used tea bags. Her work is a game changer in the secondary use of things. Day after day she captures moments from her everyday life or copies the works of famous masters.     It all started in 2015, when Ruby lost ...

Japanese Studio Nendo presented its first children's illustrated book that tells a story of a Cup that tries to solve the problem of lack of the Spoon. Her father was the founder of Nendo Oki Sato. Called What is a Cup? the book tells how creative design ideas are born. As soon as the Cup ...

I like Japan for it combining new technologies and cultural traditions and for anime cartoon. Anime, as an independent sphere of animation, originated in 1958 and was officially recognized as an art in the late XXth century when the Japanese got interested in foreign techniques of creating animated ...