I was recently in San Francisco and i visited at the Shooting Gallery this interesting solo exhibition by San Francisco-based artist, Ferris Plock. This new collection embodies the artist’s trademark character-based works along with a Ukiyo-e inspired sensibility.

Below we share a mesmerizing video titled “Dear Japan”. It was shot with a handheld Canon EOS 7D by Nathan Miller, edited by Matthew Brown using the track “Empty Room Trailer Version” by Zack Hemsey.

Ikenaga Yasunari is a 1965-born Japanese artist. His paintings depict beautiful women, whose expressions and postures suggest a dreamy atmosphere.

Tetsuya Ishida (born in June 1973, Shizuoka) was a talented Japanese painter. The characters in his painting appear unhappy and often their bodies are in pieces or part of some machine or other object. Tetsuya Ishida died in 2005 after being hit by a train (possibly suicide) he leaving behind around 180 works created during [...]

Fuco Ueda is a Japanese artist who paints with acrylic (which she thins to achieve a watercolor effect) and powdered mineral pigments on paper, cloth, and on wood.

Sayaka Kajita Ganz was born in Japan but now she’s living and working in Indiana, USA. She use discarded objects, mainly made in plastic, like kitchen tools, hangers, etc, to create stunning sculptures inspired by animals and nature. She says about her work “It is a way for me to contemplate and remind myself that [...]

See below for a wonderful animated infographic on the “Land of the Rising Sun”. It was created as a final thesis project by Kenichi Tanaka, a talented 23-year-old graphic designer raised in Nagoya, Japan. He has studied both in his home country and in sunny California, which enabled him to experience a different point of view [...]

A “bento” in Japan is a pre-made lunch you bring with you at school, work or trip. It’s sort of a box with a complete meal, including sushi or meat, rice, noodles, veggies, dessert etc. As usual, Japanese don’t miss the occasion to be creative in their traditional kawaii way. Take a look at these [...]

Some very cool japanese barcodes, designed by japanese firm D-Barcode, specialized in these unique design works.

This set of stereoscopic pictures were taken by the industrious and artistic Enami, the Japan’s greatest and most prolific stereo-photographer. Most of the photos were taken between 1895 and 1910, during the Meiji, Taisho, and early years of the Showa era. He died in 1929. The stereoview consists in a pair of nearly identical images [...]