LOVED THIS ONE! While exploring the Rijksmuseum's public domain collection, I fell for Ohara Koson's quiet woodblock prints of small birds and flowers on soft, misty skies.

I trained a custom Recraft Style on ten of his prints from 1900–1930, cropping away signatures and margins so only his gentle colors, delicate lines and generous empty space remained.

Then I asked: what if his birds moved to the city? I used the Style to design for everyday 2026 life, from a tram wrap and a full-sleeve tattoo to café umbrellas, a building mural and a pedestrian crossing painted as a lily pond.

A century later, Koson's birds are still finding new places to land.

An interesting implementation.

I fell for Japan as a teenager, visited many times, then lived there for seven years, long enough to know the konbini (convenience store) is a cultural institution: open 24/7, constantly rotating seasonal products, and locked in a friendly rivalry over the best coffee and sweets. My other obsession is Taisho and early Showa graphic design, and while searching for inspiration, I found the work of Sugiura Hisui, whose lithograph posters announced Mitsukoshi’s new spring collections a century ago. So I thought: how would Hisui create ads for today's convenience stores? I turned his posters into a Recraft V4 Style and launched the Spring 2027 range of Hinata Mart, a fictional convenience store. The series pairs today’s bestsellers (fruit sandwiches, fried chicken, iced drinks, oden) with modern fixtures like the ATM and the self-serve coffee machine. Hope you'll like it!

this is beautiful work