Yoko honda

Potentially my new favourite illustrator, I am obsessed with Japanese artist Yoko Honda’s homages to all things 80’s. Through a combination of digital painting and print, she constructs scenes of resplendent kitsch, made up of palm trees, motels, neon signs and swimming pools, all inter-dispersed with structured lines, tiles or…

There’s something refreshingly glib, and nostalgically irreverent, about Japanese artist Yoko Honda’s '80s inspired artwork. Her work feels as if your elementary school Trapper Keeper (yeah, remember those) exploded onto a canvas...

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Although it’s a source of inspiration for a number of different creative types, Yoko Honda’s artwork channels the aesthetics of the 1980s more so than anyone else I’ve come across. Her digital paintings pay homage to the garish and the gaudy, channeling an era of affluence and excess. The self-taught artist hails from Tokyo but takes inspiration from the USA. “When anyone expresses the 80s,” she says, “there’s that element of Miami and California – you could say they’re the places that…

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Artist Yoko Honda creates 80's inspired art