Ganbare Nippon: No. 58

By Tomoe Aihara

@Schnee11

This illustration is of a Corgi named Kou who disappeared with his owner on the day of the Tsunami, Kou's owner kept a blog about Corgis with many sweet pictures of him. The blog ended the day before the Tsunami, they were last seen fleeing from the wave. The artist drew Kou imagining how he would have grown in the year since the quake, she says that she hopes he is still alive and would like to imagine him grown up as the tsunami took so much hope away.

A year has already passed since that tragic day last year and we on the Rally would like to take the time to thank all our wonderful community from throughout the world for their support and commitment during our appeal and for the love that everyone has shown for the people affected by this terrible disaster.

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Ganbare Nippon Charity shop Christmas sale!

Hello everyone, as it's coming up to Christmas we thought it would be a great time to give everyone a chance to get some beautiful original gifts from our Ganbare Nippon charity shop. We still have a great range to suit all budgets and they are guaranteed to make an impact as unique gifts. So we are having a Christmas sale throughout the whole of December with 20% off everything in store! 

To get the discount simply enter the code NIPPON at the checkout for a fantastic 20% off!

Definitely worth checking out as you can see from our products below. All the proceeds from the shop go straight to our Japan Tsunami Earthquake Appeal making it a double gift this Christmas.

We have some gift recommendations below that we think would make lovely presents.

Gifts for girls

KATIE MOTH Blue Kuma Teddy £20 now £16

A cuddly friend for your special girl.

HANDMADE BY EMILY Loveheart Buttons £4.50 now £3.60

For your sweetheart!

PIKTORAMA Cupcake Mandala Print £19 now £15.20

For bakers or cake fans alike.

NATSUKI OTANI Hideaway Love Print £20 now £16

No girls hate flowers.

MR YEN Hand cut papercut - Raven in ornate frame £30 now £24

Something delicate for your lady.

Gifts for boys

JOANNE HAWKER Ganbare Nippon Cushion £15 now £12

For your cheeky boy!

MISTER MILLERCHIP Mini Concertina Postcard £5 now £4

Too cool for school.

TATSURO KIUCHI Print £30 now £24

For your apple maniac...

ROBBIE PORTER Help Screen print £30 now £24 

For the musician in your life.

NEKOCHERRY Robert the Bruce Screen Print £20 now £16

In case your boyfriend is a freedom fighter.

We have a lot more on offer at our Ganbare Nippon charity shop so please take a look and spread the word about this sale!

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Ganbare Nippon: No. 56

By Akiko Mutoh

All the links to the Japan tsunami charities

• Our Japan Tsunami Appeal on JustGiving
• Our Ganbare Nippon charity shop on etsy
• British Red Cross
• American Red Cross
• International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
• 日本赤十字社
• Yahoo基金
• Charity band designed by Lady GaGa

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Ganbare Nippon: No. 55

By Mathieu Delastre

All the links to the Japan tsunami charities

• Our Japan Tsunami Appeal on JustGiving
• Our Ganbare Nippon charity shop on etsy
• British Red Cross
• American Red Cross
• International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
• 日本赤十字社
• Yahoo基金
• Charity band designed by Lady GaGa

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Ganbare Nippon: No. 55

$1 donation from each sale goes to the american red cross, buy Ana's poster from here!

By Ana Victoria Caderòn

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All the links to the Japan tsunami charities

• Our Japan Tsunami Appeal on JustGiving
• Our Ganbare Nippon charity shop on etsy
• British Red Cross
• American Red Cross
• International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
• 日本赤十字社
• Yahoo基金
• Charity band designed by Lady GaGa

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Special art prints available!

Well it's a real treat for you now, we have some fantastic prints by renown artists Tatsuro Kiuchi and Takahiro Kimura. These guys are really special and it's really amazing that we can sell their work for our appeal. We must offer our sincerest thanks to these guys for this and we are more than proud to present their awesome work.

Tatsuro Kiuchi Art print £30

14"x14" (+1" around the image for framing) 

Smooth 315gsm pHneutral Acid free art paper 

Tatsuro Kiuchi (taken from his website):

Originally a graduate in Biology at International Christian University in Tokyo, He made the change to an art career after graduating with distinction from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. He started illustrating mostly children’s books with several publishers in the US and Japan and eventually branched out into editorial work in magazines and the illustration of book jackets and advertising commissions. His first picture book “The Lotus Seed” (text by Sherry Garland / Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) has sold more than 250,000 copies worldwide, and has been commissioned by such clients as Royal Mail to do Christmas Stamp Collection in 2006, and Starbucks for Worldwide Holiday Promotion “Pass the Cheer” in 2007.

Takahiro Kimura Art print £35

A3 (+1" around the image for framing) 

Smooth 315gsm pH neutral Acid free art paper 

Takahiro Kimura:

Takahiro Kimura is an animator and illustrator, He specialises in collage and painting and has a massive body of animation work behind him. He often uses collage in his illustration work and his style is instantly recognisable. He is a fearless creator with an intense visual style and an amazing career.

Once again, we are extremely glad to have them here, so it is with thanks that we offer these works for your viewing pleasure. Visit our shop here to browse all the amazing artworks for sale!

All proceeds from our GANBARE NIPPON shop go to The Japan Tsunami Appal on JustGiving, see http://www.justgiving.com/ganbarenippon for more info.

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Ganbare Nippon: No. 54

By Ella Goodwin

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All the links to the Japan tsunami charities

• Our Japan Tsunami Appeal on JustGiving
• Our Ganbare Nippon charity shop on etsy
• British Red Cross
• American Red Cross
• International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
• 日本赤十字社
• Yahoo基金
• Charity band designed by Lady GaGa

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Paint it! Make it! Zine available for sale

A feature now on one of the stars of our Paint it! Make it! event, our charity zine! 

The idea behind the zine was to bring together a wide range of top illustrators and create something fun and uplifting that would not only send a great message of support and love but a tactile object packed full of amazing illos from some of your favourite illustrators. At the event people had the opportunity to customise their own personal zine so they could have fun and try something new.

The best bit is, now the event is over, we can share it with everyone in our community all over the world. So you can grab a piece of the action and treasure something created by artists at the top of their game with love, that will not only give you a smile but help people who still really need it!

So what better way to whet your appetite than with a look inside and a run down of the contributors:

Uberkraaft
Ben the illustrator
Aaron Miller
Gaia Bordicchia
Yupyland
Andy Coucil
Tom Bagshaw
Bubblefriends
Bubi Au Yeung
Dave Bain
Gemma Correll
Bex Glover
Lou Lou & Tummie
Mr Millerchip
the boy fitz hammond 
Toy Factory
Lesley Barnes
Seb Burnett
Jonathan Edwards
Fon The Pern
Ruben Ireland
Thereza Rowe
Robert Shadbolt
The Tree House Press

Carlton Hibbert

Erica Sharp

Natsuki Otani

Stephen Chan

So now you we have you hooked please take a look at some of the work these wonderful artists served us up!

Lou Lou & Tummie and Fon The Pern

Lesley Barnes and Gaia Bordicchia

 Yupyland and Mr Millerchip

Seb Burnett and the boy fitz hammond 

Thereza Rowe and Tom Bagshaw 

Gemma Correll and Jonathan Edwards 

Robert Shadbolt and Ruben Ireland 

If you would like to buy a copy, please just use the button below, the minimum donation for the zine is £3, postage and packing costs £1.50 for UK shipping, £2.50 rest of the world.

All proceeds from our GANBARE NIPPON appeal go to The Japan Tsunami Appal on JustGiving, see http://www.justgiving.com/ganbarenippon for more info.

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Ganbare Nippon: No. 53

By Rukmunal Hakim

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A little story about Rukmunal's illustration, this is his interpretation of what happened in Japan. The woman symbolizes Japan itself, and the man is tattooing people's pray and hope for Japan.

Thank you so much Rakmunal, this is beautiful!

All the links to the Japan tsunami charities

• Our Japan Tsunami Appeal on JustGiving
• Our Ganbare Nippon charity shop on etsy
• British Red Cross
• American Red Cross
• International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
• 日本赤十字社
• Yahoo基金
• Charity band designed by Lady GaGa

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Ganbare Nippon: No. 52

'We're here kaiju!'

By Will Aslett
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Paint it! Make it! Updates

Hello guys! Thank you all for plugging us tirelessly and we are going to make damn sure those plugs and mentions wont go to waste! Here are some updates to let you know a little bit more about what is going down, including a sneaky peak at our zine cover!

Paint it! Make it! party for Japan on the 25th June at The Book Club

Zine Making: Our zine making is the most interactive collaborative event we can make it so feel free to bring your own bits and bobs to share, from coloured paper ribbons and pens you can bring anything you like to add to your customisation. We will be providing plenty of extra cute bits and bobs too. Our zine is going to be A5 so if you want to, you can bring along your own artwork for people to bind, feel free to sign it or even just bind it into your own zine, the zine is BW so even photocopies would be fun.

Music: Music has been careful chosen for your listening pleasure by DJ halwo SAKAMOTO, DJ CHINEN and DJ 柳 (Yanagi). It is an ecxclectic mix of Jpop, Jelectro and techno all mixed by Japanese DJ's to keep you in the mood for a party.

How to wear Kimono and tea ceremony: Details to be confirmed yet, but yes! Kimono!!

T-shirt Available from No Guts No Glory: Designed by the event live artist Mr Millerchip! The T-shirt "Dunkun - Organic White T" will be available at the event and if you want to learn a little more about the wonderful Millerchip you can read about him in our live artist feature.

Charity raffle part two: We have just announced the winners of our online pre-event charity raffle with ToDryFor and if you missed out you have one last chance to bag an exclusive signed tea towel of extraordinary awesomeness! So see you there and bag yourself a real designer exclusive!

Tea Time

By Gemma Correll

Size: Approx 48cm x 76cm

Material: 100% cotton

With 2 post cards and 2 small badges designed by Gemma

Keep On Truggin

 By Nicholas John Frith

Size: Approx 76cm x 48cm 

Material: 100% cotton

Jonah

 By Peter Slight 

Size: Approx 76cm x 48cm 

Material: 100% cotton

Mermaid

By Lucie Sheridan 

Size: Approx 48cm x 76cm

Material: 100% cotton 

Storm in a Teacup

By HelloWilson

Size: Approx 48cm x 76cm
Material: 100% cotton

Read her interview on our blog here!

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Winners of our ToDryFor charity raffle!

Corgi Royal Wedding

By Gemma Correll

Winner Helena Maratheftis

Heaven

By Robert Ryan 

Winner Ludivine Nunhold

Bake Me

By Julia Pott 

Winner Antonia Harrowing

Right On

 By Stuart Kolakovic

Winner Sabine Okami

Sunny Days

By Ben Javens 

Winner Zoe Waring

Congratulations all of you, I will be email you shortly for shipping details, and thank you very much to everyone who bought thickets, all the proceeds are going to Japan Tsunami Appeal on our JustGiving page.  

If you missed the chance to win these towels, come to our Paint it! Make it! Party for Japan event on the 25th June at The Book Club, and there is a last chance to win 5 more signed different tea towels from ToDryFor, here they are!

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