UNIQLO announces that its graphic T-shirt brand (UT) will launch a DRAGON BALL collection. This UT collection is a collaboration with the internationally popular Japanese anime, Dragon Ball Z and Kosuke Kawamura, who is a highly regarded collage artist in Japan and around the world. This special collection features original artwork from Kosuke Kawamura based on Dragon Ball Z, and will be available at all UNIQLO stores and online from late November.
The lineup of 28 styles comprises T-shirts, sweat hoodies for men and sweat shirts for kids. Particularly striking are the title logo and the Dragon Ball characters in Kosuke Kawamura’s distinctive collage style and Goku’s signature Kamehameha fighting move expressed in a shredded design.
Other original UT designs include Fusion, the combined form of Trunks and Goten, that can be seen when the two UT designs below are worn together. The hero Son Goku and other popular characters come to life on the UT stage in Dragon Ball like no one has ever seen before.
About Kosuke Kawamura
Kosuke Kawamura is a collage artist, graphic designer, and art director. As a graphic designer, he has created graphics for many apparel brands, and produced collaboration T-shirts. He has also been involved in the design and direction of fliers for live shows and events, DVD and CD jackets, book covers, and advertisements. As a collage artist, Kawamura-san has created collaborations with various artists, held individual shows in Japan and overseas, and participated in numerous group exhibitions.
Kawamura-san’s representative works include Katsuhiro Otomo GENGA” (Main visual, goods design / 2012), and INSIDE BABEL (The Tower of Babel exhibition, jointly with Katsuhiro Otomo, held at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam in the Netherlands / 2017). He also received the 2018 Good Design Award for AD 2019, an art wall project at Shibuya PARCO (2017-2019).
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