Kitti and Little Meowmaid

Abao is a Chinese artist known for creating adorable and whimsical designer toys, often featuring round, chubby animal characters with a soft, pastel aesthetic. One of Abao’s most popular creations is the Abaguru series, which showcases a chubby cat with various expressions and playful poses. The artist’s work blends elements of cuteness (kawaii) with a dreamy, fantasy-like atmosphere, making the figures highly collectible. Abao’s art toys are typically made from soft vinyl (sofubi) or resin and are frequently released in limited editions, making them sought-after by collectors. The artist collaborates with various toy brands and platforms to produce exclusive colorways and special releases. Abao’s style is characterized by a warm, nostalgic feel, appealing to fans of cute and character-driven art toys. Giclée (pronounced "zhee-clay") is a neologism for the process of making fine art prints from a digital source using ink-jet printing. The word "giclée" is derived from the French language word "le gicleur" meaning "nozzle", or more specifically "gicler" meaning "to squirt, spurt, or spray". It was coined in 1991 by Jack Duganne, a printmaker working in the field, to represent any inkjet-based digital print used as fine art. The intent of that name was to distinguish commonly known industrial "Iris proofs" from the type of fine art prints artists were producing on those same types of printers. The name was originally applied to fine art prints created on Iris printers in a process invented in the early 1990s but has since come to mean any high quality ink-jet print and is often used in galleries and print shops to denote such prints.