I am a huge fan of the contemporary Japanese artist Takashi Murakami. Murakami has revolutionized contemporary art through the use of his style, known as Superflat. Superflat is a combination of anime with pop culture. The result is a colorful array of characters with alluring designs and shapes. I usually google around to look at some of pieces and I was very surprised a few years ago when I discovered this piece that Murakami collaborated with Louis Vuitton on.
This piece really grabbed my attention but it is not in print or statue form as most of Murakami's pieces appear. Instead, it is a teddy bear. Murakami was commissioned by Louis Vuitton to incorporate his art work on limited paraphernalia. This teddy bear is one of the few logos that Murakami designed for Louis Vuitton incorporating his style of Superflat along with the floral logo that has been used by Louis Vuitton for more that one hundred years.
The piece serves as a modern introduction of a classical, unchanging design that all of a sudden has incorporated today's use of digital art along with the flagrant colors that is seen in today's modern urban style.
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