BG Bear Colorful Lantern

Pop Mart is a Chinese-based designer toy company known for creating and distributing high-quality, collectible blind box figures and designer toys. While Pop Mart is technically a company, it operates with a unique artistic approach, collaborating with talented artists and designers to produce distinctive toy lines that focus on cute, whimsical, and imaginative characters. Pop Mart’s primary artistic style blends modern pop art, fantasy, and street culture into figures that appeal to a broad range of collectors. The company’s art toys are typically designed with bold colors, cute characters, and a touch of playfulness that has made them incredibly popular in both the Asian market and globally. Kohei Ogawa is a Japanese artist renowned for his whimsical and endearing creations that span illustrations, needle-felted dolls, paintings, and sculptures. After graduating from Asagaya College of Art in 1997, Ogawa embarked on a career as a freelance illustrator, producing work for advertising agencies, publishers, and television programs.   In 2013, Ogawa introduced the “Green Cow Garden” series, a collection of handmade needle-felted dolls featuring anthropomorphized animals and fantastical creatures. This series garnered significant attention and became a hallmark of his artistic identity.  Expanding his artistic repertoire, Ogawa collaborated with Hong Kong-based art toy producer How2Work starting in 2017. Together, they developed various figure projects, including the “Naughty Boy” series, the “BG Bear” series, and a blind-boxed mini-figure line based on the “Green Cow Garden” characters Pop Mart is a Chinese toy company that sells collectible designer toys. The company is known for its "blind box" packaging, which doesn't reveal the toys inside. Pop Mart is a leader in the designer toy market and has been credited with creating the market for designer toys in China.