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. 57

By Varsam Kurnia

@VarsamKurnia

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. 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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New products on our Ganbare Nippon charity shop

SEB BURNETT Hello Deer Screenprint

Print size approx 11.5x16 inches 

Price: £40

KRISTIAN JONES Lost Youth Print

Approx 6.5x8.5 Limited Edition Print of 50 

Price: £5

PIKTORAMA Best Friends Signed Print

Size 5x7 Printed on acid free Velvet Fine Art paper 

Limited edition of 100 

Price: £6.50

PIKTORAMA Geisha Mirror

Measures 2.25" Shipped with care 

Price: £4

MISTER MILLERCHIP Mini Concertina Postcard

Postcard size: approx 4.5x6.5 inches 

Price: £5

TS LARKING Original Mixed Media

A4 on Arches Watercolor Paper, mounted on 10”x15” illustration board. 

Comes with small surprise sketch, a signed thank you from the artist. 
Price: £60

LORI DEAN DYMENT Simple Wants Original Collograph

This each print is slightly different and is considered to part of a varied edition.

This is an original and is not a reproduction.
Image size: 7 1/2"x5 1/2" Edition #:3/5 Medium: collograph

Price: £30

MATT THOMAS Patterened Print

A3 Digital Print 

Price: £25

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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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Retrospective: Paint it! Make it!

Well I'm almost sad to write this as it means all the cakes have been eaten, the origami folded and the live drawing has met the fate of the vast majority of its ephemeral brothers. Though saying that it, the whole day was an epic win for the rally and our appeal netting us a massive £300.16 pounds, on a day when the tube was down Glastonbury was on, and the whole world was conspiring to keep us out of London!

Preparation time...

So the train broke down on the way, the weatherman lied to us through his teeth but we made it and turned up to find the most beautiful sight of hard working friends and artists coming together to put on a kick ass event. The book club probably has never been subjected to so much colour and verve, what with stunning kimonos and yukatas, zine binding, our origami zoo, hundreds of pen, papers and crafty bits, two massive cardboard trees, portraits, cakes and not forgetting the awesome live drawing by Messrs Millerchip, Jones, Fiddle and Chan.(which would be literally the best name for a law firm in history)

Cakes!

Prizes from ToDryFor, No Guts No Glory and Kuretake UK!

Shop!

Beautiful Emma Block and Kim Roberts in Yukatas!

The event kicked of with absconding temporary DJ who set up the sound and simultaneously startled pigeons as far as Toxteth. Some light furniture moving, unpacking wrapping, cutting, sticking, glueing, taping, re-taping later the scene was set with epic paper chains and bunting, more balloons than you could shake a stick at and possibly the best craft area in the history of creation. Well at least Shoreditch anyway.

The whole event flew by as we drew in and tempted friends and ordinary slightly worried londoners into our den and gave what could only be described as an old school kids party meets high end art event. Many a cake was sold, portrait painted and kimono donned. and in the end there was the raffle, which I personally fixed... Well as it turned out lucky and tiny seems to go hand in hand, with our diminutive first winner taking not only the first signed towel but Millerchip's ticket, and his shirt (raffle prize, not his actual shirt!)

Origami workshop by Erica Sharp and Kuretake UK pen trial!

Zine making workshop by Lea Wade!

Live portrait drawing by Jenny Robins and June Sees!

Live drawing in morning!

Completed live drawing by Mr Millerchip, Kristian Jones, Seb Burnett and Stephen Chan!

So a massive thanks to all those who came and to all those who helped out tirelessly, giving us the first of what we hope will be many Illustration Rally live art events!

We have some fantastic pictures both here and on our flickr page, so please check them out. So till the next time we invade London with a cheeky swagger and a bag full of pens, we couldn't have done it without you!

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