Warakami Vaporwave
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Warakami Vaporwave

Ohio
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Warakami Vaporwave is an American digital artist whose work is heavily influenced by Pop Art, retro aesthetics, anime, and Japanese visual culture. Exploring themes of nostalgia and modern reinterpretation, their work reimagines vintage imagery through a contemporary digital lens. By upcycling nostalgic elements into bold, stylized compositions, they create striking vaporwave-inspired artwork designed for modern visual culture and contemporary wall art.

Blooming cherry blossom tree with pink flowers on a beige background, evoking the beauty of spring. Sakura cherry blossom tree with pink flowers on a soft background, evoking the beauty of spring.

Sakura Spring

Sakura Spring

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Abstract artwork with pink, teal, and white waves on a navy blue background. Abstract artwork with pink, teal, and white brushstrokes on a navy blue background.

Ink 199X Midnight

Ink 199X Midnight

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“I love exploring new ways to upcycle nostalgia into new designs.”

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Colorful comic book onomatopoeia and symbols on a light background, evoking classic Japanese manga aesthetics. Colorful comic book-style exclamations and symbols on a light background, evoking classic manga aesthetics.

Boom! Retro

Boom! Retro

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Retro video cassette design with gradient background, bold text, paint splatters, and Japanese text. Retro video cassette cover design with gradient background, bold text, abstract paint splatters, and Japanese elements.

Sunset 1989

Sunset 1989

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Retro design with bold Japanese characters, red background, and elements like rainbow stripes and cassette details. Vintage cassette-inspired design with bold Japanese characters, red background, and retro elements.

Superaudio High Quality Cassette

Superaudio High Quality Cassette

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Cherry blossoms on branches with a matcha green background, retro audio tape design Japanese text elements. Graphic cherry blossoms with a green background, retro audio tape design, rainbow stripes, and Japanese text.

Superaudio Matcha 83

Superaudio Matcha 83

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Cherry blossoms on dark branches with a pink background, magenta sun, and retro VHS text elements. Sakura blossoms on dark branches with a pastel background, bold magenta sun, and retro Japanese text elements.

Sakura Rewind

Sakura Rewind

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Sakura blossoms on dark branches with a neon pink sun, and retro Japanese text elements and VHS symbols. Cherry blossoms on dark branches with a neon magenta sun, and retro Japanese text elements.

Sakura Rewind Midnight

Sakura Rewind Midnight

Warakami Vaporwave

Exploring new ways to upcycle nostalgia into new designs, Warakami Vaporwave digital art is heavily inspired by Pop Art, retro aesthetics, Anime and Japanese culture.

ARTISTIC TOOLS

Adobe Photoshop, Pencil, Ink & Paper

I use Adobe Photoshop, pencil, ink and paper. All of my illustrations and abstract calligraphy lines start on paper with pencil or ink first. It feels the most natural for me and I get the best result starting traditionally. I'll then bring those designs into Photoshop to create the final digital designs.

Q&A

I don’t have a specific goal in mind, I just have ideas of what I want to make and do my best to do as many of them as I can. What drives me is always trying to learn new things and improve my skill.

I’m always working on a lot of things but the main project I’m working on right now is inspired by 80s/90s era recordable VHS tape packaging designs.

As a former game developer it’s nice to be able to play games again without it feeling like work. I also like to run, catch up on anime and do research for my Japanese streetwear blog.

Human Made, Visvim and RRL

Takashi Murakami, Andy Warhol, Neal Stephenson and Nigo.

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