The Sanrio designer behind My Melody and Kuromi reveals that the latter's iconic pink hood played a key role in her ranking just behind Hello Kitty.

“Shrewd” is how Mika Nishimura, a design professor at Tokyo’s Meisei University, describes the way Hello Kitty conquered the worlds of commerce, fashion and entertainment. As a tabula rasa ...

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(Photo: A replica of the first ever Hello Kitty product. Credit: Getty Images) Her design – a white cat with a red bow in its hair – only took a couple of days to complete. Yuko asked her ...