Akira Yamaguchi

Biography

Young painter Akira Yamaguchi has taken Japan’s art world by storm. His work combines the techniques of classical Japanese painting with the observant eye of a modern-day Peter Breughel and the humour and draftsmanship of a manga cartoonist. Yamaguchi’s landscapes of the imagination, compressions of time and space, and quixotic human/machine figures combine Eastern and Western sensibilities and techniques into artwork that transcends exoticism.

• Akira article on Columbia University Press

Designed Toy Releases

These are toys designed by Akira.

Toy Series Participation

These are toys that Akira has lent his design skills to.

• Qee - 8" & 2.5" Robo-A-Mon (and Akira-kun-mon) Red, 500 pieces, 2007
• Qee - 8" & 2.5" Robo-A-Mon (and Akira-kun-mon) Mono, 500 pieces, 2007

Customs

These are one-off, or very limited, toys.

• Qee - 10" DIY Bart Qee for the DIY Bart Qee World Tour, 2007
• Qee - 9" Bunnee Qee for Bunny Qee Fiesta, 2006

Images

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  Qee Robo-A-Mon Red

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  DIY Bart Qee