Holika Holika did a Gudetama collaboration. Etude House released limited edition products for the release of Finding Dory. Skinfood did a line of products with Snoopy. Skincare and makeup chains in Korea frequently collaborate with other brands to produce limited edition products, especially with brands that involve cute cartoon characters. Most of the subway stations I used regularly in Busan included a Face Shop store underground. It’s also relatively cheap and available almost everywhere, from shopping districts to subway stations. The final step of my Kakao collecting was through skincare products and makeup. So while I bought some products, I also saved the shopping bags which seemed like they could have some artistic inspiration value. Here’s an Apeach USB drive! #kakaofriends #kakaotalk #kakaoemoji #apeachĪ post shared by Monica Heilman on at 2:07pm PDT While we’re talking about Kakao emoji…i have too much Kakao friends merch. I was enamored with the characters, so everything in these stores was exciting. For limited periods of time, a Kakao store would pop up at a department store or mall, a consumerist paradise of Kakao Friends merchandise. The next thing that fueled my Kakao addiction were Kakao Friends pop stores. But it popped into my head, and I wanted to share the pain. For your own health, maybe don’t listen to the whole thing. But if you have to get some of these stickers for yourself, it looks like someone’s selling them on eBay. ![]() I gathered a handful of stickers, but now I’ve either given them away, stuck them on my laptop, or lost them. Unfortunately Fortunately those pastries gradually disappeared, and so I stopped buying convenience store bread. I didn’t contribute to those sales though, since I was living in isolation with 100+ other foreigners. According to a company representative, SHANY sold an average of 200,000 Kakao Friends Bread products a day during that time. The pastries, produced by bread company SHANY, were released July 2014, right as I arrived in Korea. Um, yes! The bread didn’t taste that good, but for the stickers, it was worth it.Īpparently I wasn’t the only one who was excited. These included:įor a time, convenience stores in Korea sold pastries that came with a Kakao Friends sticker. So here’s my process, which began with collecting. For example, I’m usually surprised at how logically artists choose to create their next works – logical to them, but perhaps not until you hear it explained, as with Dana Schutz‘s Self-Eaters or Last Man on Earth paintings. The artistic process is weird and convoluted and different for everyone. Now I’m joining the ring with some emoji art of my own (but please don’t compare to Yung Jake). Also Yung Jake makes awesome emoji portraits. I’ve established that Kakao Friends emoji are cute. And that interest is emojis, specifically Kakao Friends emojis. If you’ve seen any of my last few posts, you already know the interest I’m talking about. I know you can’t wait to read more about this vaguely worded summary. This week I’ll walk you through my journey from the discovery of a new interest (or obsession, the word choice is up to you) to how I (sorta, kinda) turned that interest into art. And maybe you’re hoping to get some artistic value out of those interests. But you probably do have random interests. ![]() Do you think of yourself as an artist/emoji-enthusiast?
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