Lady Butterfly

Be entranced by the newest Dunny series, Dunny Fatale, featuring designs from 18 prominent and talented female artists. Some are cute and sweet, others are bold and cruel, but all are irresistible. Each blind boxed 3-inch figure retails for $7.95, comes with a trading card and some include accessories. Dunny starts seducing in late Janurary at select retailers, Kidrobot stores and on kidrobot.com AIKO was born in Tokyo, Japan and currently resides in New York City since the mid 90’s. She received an BFA at Tokyo Zokei University in the field of graphic design and filmmaking, also MFA at The New School, NY with honor mention on Media Studies. In 1997, she assisted the earlier Brooklyn MURAKAMI’s based studio. Few years later she teamed up with two young American artists, which eventually became the seminal street art collective known as FAILE. After 5 years of putting hard work in the US and international streets, galleries and museums, she departed the group to develop her individual artist career as Lady AIKO. She utilizes mixed media on her works, such as spray paint, acrylics, latex enamels, oil bars, coffee stains, rhine stones glitter and pigments. Also she creates images with collecting with her daily documentation and photography, and applies techniques working with collaging, stenciling, silk screening and hand painting. After years of living in US , being an immigrant from from Japan, AIKO discovered American contemporary art movements such as Abstractionism , POP Art , Graffiti and Street Art. Her pieces are combination of those forms with Japanese traditional aesthetic in an innovative Founded in 2002 by designer Paul Budnitz, Kidrobot is the world's premier creator of limited edition art toys and apparel. Kidrobot creates toys, apparel, accessories, and other products in collaboration with many of the world's most talented artists and designers. The products sold at Kidrobot are the centerpieces of a global movement that exemplifies the cutting edge of both pop art and mass culture. Many Kidrobot toys, such as Dunny, MUNNY, and Frank Kozik's Labbits and Mongers, attract huge followings. Artists that work with Kidrobot have gained celebrity status-these include USA artists Frank Kozik, Tim Biskup, Huck Gee, Joe Ledbetter, Tristan Eaton, Paul Budnitz, and Tara McPherson; the German design collective eBoy; Japan's Devilrobots & Mad Barbarians; French street artists Tilt & Mist; the UK's TADO and ilovedust; Australia's Nathan Jurevicius; Argentina's DOMA; and many, many others. Kidrobot also regularly collaborates with many of the world's top brands to create unique limited editions products. Past collaborations include Marc Jacobs, Visionaire Magazine, Barneys New York, The Standard Hotels, Playboy, Burton, Nike, Lacoste, Nooka, Matt Groening & more. A blend of sculpture and popular art, many of Kidrobot's exclusive toys are extremely rare and collectible. Artists often create a series of only a few hundred The toy is based on a rabbit figure with distinctive tubular ears. The origin of the name Dunny came from a combination of street slang and one of the early "Devil Bunny" prototypes. The Dunny is sold in four sizes - 3", 5", 8" and 20". The toy has three points of articulation; a 360 degree rotational head and two arms. An artist card or sticker is also included with the 3" Dunny from a series. Most 3" Dunnys and some 8" Dunnys are normally sold as "blind assortment"; the figure is packaged inside a sealed foil wrapper, such that the buyer is not able to see which figure and accessories they are buying. Sealing the figure prevents people from opening and peeking in the boxes and buying only the figures they want. Most Dunnys are packaged inside a clear plastic bag in addition to the foil wrapper. In the second-hand market, this assures the buyer that the article was never on display and is in a "new" condition. With the success of vinyl toys as a medium for expression, many fans and artists have put their own design onto blank Dunnys.