Yoshimi Ohtani
Yoshimi Ohtani was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1980.
She established a website for her hobby illustrations in 2000.
She gave birth in 2002, and concentrated on caring for her child for while.
In 2005, a great desire for creation came over her, and so she returned to her original passion,
this time establishing a new style for her work using illustrator.
After that, she worked on cell-phone icons and bachgrounds, books, magazines, interior decorations, and so on in the professional sense.
Spring of 2008, she start asking herself "what do I want to create?"
At first, she made a new website domain name that means "fun" plus "arium"... "Funarium", and
started doing of exhibitions.
For her createions, she combined a traditional mindset(lki) with a sense of modern Japanesque"passive demenor(Wabi)", "elegant simplicity(Sabi)", and/or a "classic taste(Kare)".
The character of her works are a hybrid of Japanimation/comics and design/artistic expression.
| Contact | yoshimi_ohtani@ARTas1.com |
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| Tools | Adobe Illustrator CS3/Abobe Photoshop CS3 iMac(2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo) |
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All images © Yoshimi Ohtani
Awards & Shows
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AWARDS:
- SoftBank x CREATORS BAK fanfun.Design Contest Winning Prize, (2009)
- SIGG Bottle Design Competition Excellent Prize "The bottle was manufactured and released over the world.", (2008)
- DoCoMo N701i Kisekae Panel Design Competition, Excellent Prize "Style Plus Collection Series" released, (2007)
- TOKYU HANDS x Loftwork Creator New Year Card 2006 & 2007 Contest Winning Prize; the work was manufactured, (2007)
- CREATORZ Excellent Prize"HARUICHIBAN*Illustration Contest", (2007) EXHIBITIONS:
- SAKURA Exhibition New York, Open-call project, (2009 May-June)
- SAKURA Exhibition New York, Open-call project in Charge of planning, operation and main visual, (2009 March-April)
- Illustration Exhibition @ Tokyo MySpace.cafe Gallery tour - Private exhibition -, (2008 September-October)
- ARTs*LABo-Wafu Genso (Japanese Fantasy) - Group exhibition -, (2008 September)
- Illustration Exhibition @ NY - Provate exhibition -, (2008 July-August)
