Monday, December 31, 2007

The art of Range Murata.

"Renji "Range" Murata (村田 蓮爾 Murata Renji, born October 2, 1968 in Osaka) is a Japanese artist and designer, known for his unique style combining Art Deco and Japanese anime elements. He is best known for his conceptual design work on anime series.

He began his career in the early 1990s doing design work for video games. He still continues to do some work in this area today, having recently done the character designs for the PlayStation 2 game Spy Fiction.

Range Murata's TT Butterfly PVC Statue $71.99 from tmpanime.com

He has published more than a dozen books of his work, some of the most notable being robot, rule, and futurhythm. He is also voted "Best Artist of the Year" 2006 in the Seiun Award.

Murata loves all things mechanical-including bicycles, and has now begun to produce a limited series of this stunning bike based on one of his illustrations.

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