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interview with YUTA ONODA

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Following our Society6 grant last year to find up and coming talent from around the world, we are awarding fantasy creationist Yuta Onoda with a featured interview. So we caught up with the Canadian based, Japanese illustrator to get to the heart of his craft and to discuss what goes into his dream-like imagery…

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inspiration: Give me some Gola by TADO!

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Bham! Tado are back with loads of fresh new work, and we’re in awe of what they’ve done for Gola! Having grown up in the UK in the 80s and 90s, Gola will always bring back fond memories, and the fact that Tado seem to have been given creative freedom to run riot is brilliant! Although this collection might be a bit bold for a lot of you folks, we have it on good authority from the guys themselves that the second Gola by Tado range is going to be aimed at an older age range, and be uber-wearable… sounds ace!

Check out the full range over on the Gola site and see loads of Tado’s latest work over on their agent’s site, Debut Publishing!

Check out some bonus pics!

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inspiration: TC Time Capsule: Update

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We’re back with an update to the Time Capsule! Just the four this time, but they’re all top class! Enjoy! If you get the chance then check out the interactive time capsule as well, so you can see all the artist submissions in all their glory!

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inspiration: The Renmen Project launches

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Any of you who follow us on Twitter will have seen us discussing this already, but for everyone else, we’ve finally launched our charity project, alongside Ben The Illustrator, which is called The Renmen Project.

Renmen in the Haitian word for love, and with the help of some top artists from around the globe, we’re aiming to raise a stack of much needed money for UNICEF’s Haiti Earthquake Children’s Appeal.

Straight off the bat we have a rare opportunity for you to buy one of 100 hand-drawn Ben The Illustrator pieces for just £10, with 100% of that money going to UNICEF. Get in there quick though as the drawings have been selling fast over the weekend!

That £10 can buy a Haitian family a much needed water kit

So go buy yourself a drawing, and please, please, please spread the word however you can – then fingers crossed we’ll make a little bit of a difference!

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report: Help Haiti

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During this short period of time since the tragedy happened, many projects and donations have already started up from the design world. We the Designers, Illustrators, Creatives, Artists, do what we do best; we offer up our skills, and do whatever we can for the people involved in the Haiti earthquake.

Tomorrow we here at Thunder Chunky are going to be launching our own project to help raise some money for the cause, but in the mean time we’ve rounded up a few projects which are currently running, raising money to Help Haiti. We hope that you can show your support by visiting these sites, and spend some money if you haven’t donated already.

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inspiration: Megastar and Fellastar

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This is a super quick toy alert! We have special breaking news that Megastar and Fellastar have landed on planet Thunder Chunky!

The urban design champs 123Klan have pulled out all their stops for their latest toy release. Only 25 of each brightly coloured characters have been produced, each box is signed and you get 2 awesome stickers too. What more could you want? This is yet another typical polished release from the French creative crew.

Get them quick from the 123 Klan store as their availability seems to be going down by the hour!

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inspiration: The work of Lisa Corbett

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I just fell in love with the drawings and work of Lisa Corbett!

I’m not sure what I like the most about her! Her toys, paintings or illustrations… One thing I’m sure of is that I’m very inspired by her sketchbooks. I love the way she combines all kinds of media, hand drawings with collages, watercolours and stickers.

I also like the way her work is recognisable even though she is changing and experimenting with a variety of techniques and the styles in her illustration.

Don’t miss out on her blog and Etsy shop!

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