Kaori Hamura
Encyclopedia
Kaori Hamura is an artist
and illustrator
.
Kaori Hamura has many TV and film credits, including MTV
's "Beavis and Butt-head
", "MTV Downtown", "Daria
" and "Celebrity Death Match", and TNN/Nickelodeon
's "Gary the Rat
". She also created MTV's Video Music Award packaging animation and MTV2
Station I.D.. She has done numerous magazine illustrations for New York Press
, Time Out, Interview magazine, Mademoiselle
, RayGun, COSMOgirl!
and others. She has also done T-shirt designs for Anna Sui
, Patricia Field, and Liquid Sky Records.
Hamura was born in Fukuoka, Japan, and graduated from Parsons School of Design in 1993. Her pilot animation, "Bootie Boogie", was aired on Oxygen
. "Bootie Boogie" has won a Silver Award for The Society of Illustrators' Annual Awards 2003 in Los Angeles. She began to develop children's book projects and established a creative company, Moss Moon Studio, with Bill Long
.
Artist
An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...
and illustrator
Illustrator
An Illustrator is a narrative artist who specializes in enhancing writing by providing a visual representation that corresponds to the content of the associated text...
.
Kaori Hamura has many TV and film credits, including MTV
MTV
MTV, formerly an initialism of Music Television, is an American network based in New York City that launched on August 1, 1981. The original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJs....
's "Beavis and Butt-head
Beavis and Butt-Head
Beavis and Butt-head is an American animated television series created by Mike Judge. The series originated from Frog Baseball, a 1992 short film by Judge. After seeing the short, MTV signed Judge to develop the concept. Beavis and Butt-head originally aired from March 8, 1993 to November 28, 1997...
", "MTV Downtown", "Daria
Daria
Daria is an American animated television series produced by Paramount Television, and created by Glenn Eichler and Susie Lewis Lynn for MTV. The series focuses on Daria Morgendorffer, a smart, acerbic, and somewhat misanthropic teenage girl who observes the world around her...
" and "Celebrity Death Match", and TNN/Nickelodeon
Nickelodeon (TV channel)
Nickelodeon, often simply called Nick and originally named Pinwheel, is an American children's channel owned by MTV Networks, a subsidiary of Viacom International. The channel is primarily aimed at children ages 7–17, with the exception of their weekday morning program block aimed at preschoolers...
's "Gary the Rat
Gary the Rat
Gary the Rat is an American television program adult-oriented animated series animated by Spike Animation Studios, produced by Grammnet Productions and distributed by Cheyenne Enterprises that was originally broadcast on Spike in 2003. The program lasted one season before cancellation...
". She also created MTV's Video Music Award packaging animation and MTV2
MTV2
MTV2 is a cable network that is widely available in the United States on digital cable and satellite television, and is progressively being added to analogue cable lineups across the nation...
Station I.D.. She has done numerous magazine illustrations for New York Press
New York Press
New York Press was a free alternative weekly in New York City, that was published from 1988 to 2011. During its lifetime, it was the main competitor to the Village Voice...
, Time Out, Interview magazine, Mademoiselle
Mademoiselle (magazine)
Mademoiselle was an influential women's magazine first published in 1935 by Street and Smith and later acquired by Condé Nast Publications....
, RayGun, COSMOgirl!
CosmoGIRL!
CosmoGirl was an American magazine based in New York City, published from 1999 until 2008. The teenage spin-off of Cosmopolitan magazine, it targeted teenage girls and featured fashion and celebrities. It was published ten times a year and reached approximately eight million readers before folding....
and others. She has also done T-shirt designs for Anna Sui
Anna Sui
Anna Sui is an American fashion designer. Her luxury brand retails globally in the Americas, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. Her clothing, fragrance, cosmetic, and accessories lines sell at Anna Sui stores in over 50 countries and are also widely distributed at leading department stores...
, Patricia Field, and Liquid Sky Records.
Hamura was born in Fukuoka, Japan, and graduated from Parsons School of Design in 1993. Her pilot animation, "Bootie Boogie", was aired on Oxygen
Oxygen (TV channel)
Oxygen is an American cable television specialty channel with television programming marketed towards women, with a format similar to Lifetime.- History :...
. "Bootie Boogie" has won a Silver Award for The Society of Illustrators' Annual Awards 2003 in Los Angeles. She began to develop children's book projects and established a creative company, Moss Moon Studio, with Bill Long
Bill Long (artist)
Bill Long is an artist and illustrator.Bill Long has many animated TV and movie credits, including MTV's Beavis and Butt-head, MTV Downtown, and Nickelodeon's Little Bill and Blue's Clues. He also created Nickelodeon's Happy Halloween Station I.D.Long was born in Providence, Rhode Island , and...
.