It is one of the tropes of guitar effects pedal culture that designers look to the animal kingdom when naming their fuzz ...

The "Secret Soup" design is jam-packed with whimsical details and 50+ Easter eggs to discover as you build, with a magical ~twist~ at the end that makes it so much more than it initially appears.

Build-A-Bear Workshop’s IP partnerships have always been one of its biggest differentiators, but now the retailer is bringing ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Hello Kitty is famously the height of just five apples. But these days, the more striking statistic is that she’s worth more than ...

For fifty years, her facial features have largely remained unchanged. But as Sanrio illustrator Yuko Yamaguchi, who oversaw ...

“Shrewd” is how Mika Nishimura, a design professor at Tokyo’s Meisei University, describes the way Hello Kitty conquered the worlds of commerce, fashion and entertainment. As a tabula rasa ...

bare design that can speak with a kind of simplicity and elegance to more people”, Dr Yano said. “I call her a ‘pure product’,” the researcher added. Some feminists say Hello Kitty’s ...

Considered Hello Kitty’s third designer (Shimizu left Sanrio three years after inventing the character and was replaced by Setsuko Yonekubo, who briefly oversaw the design in the late 1970s ...

To celebrate Hello Kitty’s 50th anniversary, the newly opened Hello Kitty and Friends Cafe at Universal CityWalk Hollywood is adding three limited-time treats to their menu. Kicking off on Hello ...