X-playground offers premium urban accessories and collectibles. In X-playground, you can find many collectibles like Bearbrick, Takashi Murakami, KAWS, etc.

Who is Takashi Murakami?

Takashi Murakami is one of the most influential and popular Japanese contemporary artists in the world. He is not only being loved as an artist but also as a fashion idol by young people in Japan.

Takashi Murakami said that he had a pure interest in painting and drawing because his mother loves arts and always took him to various art exhibitions, even though he did not know much about art elements and culture at that time.

With the rise of Otaku Culture , he decided to attract the attention of the world with an unprecedented and indescribable way—- “Superflat”

Since the early 1990s, Takashi Murakami has invented popular cartoon-element characters that combine Europe, the United States and Japan-from his first Mr.DOB, to various anime characters and bears, lions, and smiling flowers. These cartoon-element characters can be said to act as icons and symbols, and they are given more complex themes of violence, technology and fantasy.

In 2000, Takashi Murakami hold an exhibition. The exhibition showcased their techniques and media to integrate various aspects of Japanese visual culture, from Ukiyo-e (Ukiyo-e is a print from the Edo period), as well as in cartoons, handwriting, specific Many cute characters in the product. Through this exhibition, Takashi Murakami advances his ultra-flat art theory. At the same time, this exhibition also highlights the “flatness” of Japanese visual culture from traditional painting to contemporary subculture under the background of World War II.

In 2009, Takashi Murakami and the famous art historian Nobuo Tsuji had a creative dialogue centred on Japanese artists (a group of Japanese artists known as Edo weirdos). This dialogue led to Murakami’s upcoming exhibition at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts in 2017.

After the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake and the subsequent Fukushima nuclear crisis, Takashi Murakami began to explore the impact of historical natural disasters on Japanese culture and art. In 2014, Takashi Murakami held a Gagosian exhibition in West 24th Street in New York, he created an electric and immersive installation, he also showed his fictional character Mr DOB and karajishi, the mythical lion guarding Japanese Buddhist temples, visitors enter through a replica of the sanmon.

Murakami not only incorporates different time periods, styles and themes in his works, but his artistic methods also cross the boundaries between art fairs, studios, galleries, and media. In addition to creating paintings and sculptures, Murakami also organizes art fairs for emerging artists, curates exhibitions for emerging artists, and produces movies, which contain many characters and themes he designed. His works combine fantasy, science and history well, and he proves that these categories cannot be isolated, but are perfectly integrated.

Although Takashi Murakami’s commercial works are widely known, Takashi Murakami’s interest in brand power and global influence is gradually and steadily established by targeting different audiences or creating low-to-high art and high-to-low products. Every creative collaboration of Takashi Murakami paved the way for the expansion of his global influence, making Murakami a household name, and he became more and more important in people’s hearts. He attracts audiences to consume his art all the time, whether by owning a graduation CD, appreciating luxury goods, or collecting his art as a new non-traditional experience.

How to buy collectibles about Takashi Murakami?

You can find Takashi Murakami collectibles at X-playground, many beautifully designed hoodies and plush are waiting for you to discover!

Offer premium urban accessories and collectibles. Our services cover “creativity, unique and variety”. With one decade of Bearbrick, Kaws, Takashi Murakami, Sneakers and Toys, X-PLAYGROUND delivers quality work after high efficient check work among our team.

A Variety of Designers

Art toys also called designer toys, often used a lot of materials, including plastic, vinyl, wood, metal and resin etc. So our creators often have backgrounds in graphic design, illustration or fine art. Apart from profession, they are from different cultures, such as France, Western, Asia and Australia, which means, they could show cultural variety from art toys such as keychain mews and museum self-portraits.

Best Seller

Customers prefer life products, such as cushions, self-portrait and decoration. Our art toys are high quality, often made of ceramic, plastic and crystal. We aim to achieve soft and hand-made products apart from convenience. So our advantage aims to cover house decoration and children toys kit, customers could choose what they need and what style they prefer.

Sneakers

We also offer shoes, including NIKE, ADIDAS and JORDAN, to get your favourite, we give “filters”, to choose a price range for customers. With popular brands, X-Playground offer high-quality products for different budgets. For preference, they could cover sports, work and casual style.

Graphic Design

“Prints” is another service that offers customers graphic design, such as Doraemon, Child Panda. The graphic design shows art attraction, giving viewers more inspiration and interest in life or nature. X-Playground focuses on cartoon and decoration in a couple of ways, like Doraemon’s back or front smile or posture. The art is from popular TV or ads board.

About Us

X-Playground has an introduction and summary to operate as the about us art toys company in Victoria. X-Playground is fully compliant, plus EPA and WorkSafe approved. We hold a Customer Relationship Management System. If you need an X-Playground’s products online or delivery, we’d happy to give the best options to choose and serve customers with fast delivery.

Customer Service

We have a professional team to work through the whole process. Our web gives you enough information up-to-date for shopping, and questions, we also have different ways for the public, including WeChat, email, Instagram and code-scan. For language, we have both English and Chinese to change the web page. So you could decide on getting many details. Our customers don’t have to take care of anything; all they need to do is contact us.

Give Customers Our Best

Compared with competitors, we focus on cartoon items and small decoration, which are more attractive in life. That’s because we prefer to make and transfer more happiness to individuals or household, not government or industry. Apart from these, our web offer shoes, ready to wear, sports cards etc. These things are all needed for most people. For shoes, we give popular brands with high quality after our successful research and check; For ready to wear, we offer hoodie black, hat, and T-shirt. Those clothes are simple but popularly used as sunshine is strong in Melbourne and the weather is changeable. Finally, we would pay most attention to customers’ needs. To update our products and follow their interest in future all the time. Because customers’ interest always change and they want us to change as well. This is also our culture in the market, no matter how fast the market changes, we would follow and upgrade to match customers’ need.

Contact Us

We are a trusted independent supplier of art toys in the Melbourne region. If you are a business, company, or residential individuals who require graphic designs, sports card or new wears, you can contact us today. Please email us at [email protected] to request a free quote.

X-playground offers premium urban accessories and collectibles. In X-playground, you can find many collectibles like Bearbrick, Takashi Murakami, KAWS, etc. Also, they are many sneakers like Nike, Jordan, Adidas, etc. Curated with an extensive selection of unique pieces, every item is meticulously sourced and authenticated before delivery. It also has ready-to-wear sections, and brands like Cdg, Supreme, as well as Moschino can be purchased on their website.

What is an art toy

The birthplace of art toys in Hong Kong. Art toys are also known as fashion toys, designer toys, etc. It is designed and produced by some designers and artists. The size ranges from a few centimetres to tens of centimetres. The material is mainly vinyl, which is easy to shape, and sometimes art toys also use wooden materials, metal materials, and pixel materials to manufacture.

Art toys and their designers

Trendy toys are also inseparable from their creators. Taking Kaws as an example. At the end of 1990, Kaws got noticed by the Japanese fashion brand Bounty Hunter, through the recommendation of his Japanese friends, he began to design limited-edition toys for them.
Perhaps it was because of having experience as an animator for the Disney Company. He is good at breaking the original shape and creating a new one based on the classic animation image. The design of the Kaws Companion is inspired by the black and white image of Mickey Mouse. Companion also has the meaning of companionship, and this image has become one of his most popular works in the future.
The success of Kaws on social media is also an important reason for him to become a contemporary art pioneer. Street art is very suitable for the dissemination of social media, including Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, etc. There is a hashtag #kaws with 900w on Instagram alone, far more than other contemporary artists.
Buy more Kaws products and other designer toys, you can visit X-playground, there are a variety of art toys for you to choose from.

Relationship between art toys and traditional artworks

A parent of a junior high school student will reward the child to buy a fashion toy after his child has achieved excellent results. When children make purchases, they have their preferences and aesthetics. The fashion toys can be serving as a memorial, companionship, and home decoration of their own lives; besides, they can also be listed on some platforms for resale. The price of art toys will go up and down according to the market. Although it is only a toy, the process and the result are almost no different from the art pieces in the traditional market.
Perhaps the biggest difference between trendy toys and traditional artworks is the separation of creation and production. At present, the most expensive trendy toys in the auction market are still made by European, American, and Japanese artists. Nevertheless, the packaging of trendy toys is printed with the Made in China label. Very few orders that require cutting-edge craftsmanship will be processed in Japan. In other words, many traditional artworks contain the artist’s craftsmanship. With the development of technology, many artists now only provide ideas, while execution and production come from another party.

Quick shipping process

X-playground can ship its products worldwide. After you place your order, an email confirmation will be sent to your e-mail address, and this e-mail is the proof of your purchase. Shipment processing time will depend on your order processing because it needs to prepare your order for shipping. After your payment is authorized and verified, all orders are processed within 2 days. They will contact you for some reason if there are any delays. However, some orders may ship within as few as 2 days and some may take up to 5 days.

Contact Us

X-Playground ships domestically as well as internationally. If you have a question about domestic or international deliveries, please contact X-playground: [email protected].

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