Aya Takano
Monday June 30, 2014
I wanted to post about one of my favorite artists, Aya Takano. I first saw her work around 2007 in Zipper magazine when she did the monthly calendar artwork for them. I scanned in 3 of those from my own magazines to share at the time. They were full of emotion and storytelling for something that’s usually written off as simple magazine filler.
Then in 2010 she had the infamous collaboration with Shu Uemura for their holiday collection and since then she’s been pretty well known.
I wanted to post this in case you haven’t had a chance to see a more wide spectrum of her work. On the surface her style may be written off as cute eyecandy but a quick google search will reveal she focuses on a wide variety of topics.
If you are interested in reading more you can view some of her interviews here.
Many of the above images found here. There is also a 20 minute documentary (in English) titled “Towards Eternity” on the page.
14 Responses to “Aya Takano”
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Never mind, I found your older post =]
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Amazing illustrations! I love how she includes animals a lot. Thanks for sharing, I loved this :)
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Oh wow, thanks for sharing these. She’s incredible!
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Oh, I remember when you blogged about that Shu Uemura collaboration! I can’t believe it’s been a few years since then.
I like her drawing and colouring style and interesting to see the variety of themes in her pieces.
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yaaaaaas omg i love her so much!! in my first year of college i did a project on her ;3; huhuhu
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