My mom being a fashion designer, I grew up in an environment full of fabric and soft material with which I could make anything I wanted to make. Meanwhile, my dad who was in computer business, tried to introduce computers into the house. He was often booed off because mom thought that having human-human interaction in the house was more important than having human-computer interaction. (It’s interesting now I’m at the Media Lab J)

Anyway, when I ‘m not thinking about Media Lab projects, I cannot help but making little characters that make me smile. It’s a true luxury to be able to just sit back and make stuff up.

Here are just few of the little guys I have made in the past (links coming up soon!):