明確なコンセプトは国境を越えたコミュニケーションになっていてｔ、ブランド性を強く感じます。（井手 聡太）

Their clear concept is a communication beyond borders, and I felt their brand very much. (Sota Ide)

元アイコンデザイナーという彼女は、SNSに代表される現代の希薄な人間関係を、紙という「軽く薄い」材料で抽象的、立体的に表現しており、印象に残りました。（堤たか雄）
大阪の街を独自の解釈でグラフィックしたところが好きです。(井出美沙音)
本当にかっこいいです。作品欲しい。好きな街を手に入れる機会ですね。(岸田吉哲)
今回のために大阪のアイロンをつくられていて情報がない中でのアイコン化が魅力的。他の都市のアイコンMAPも興味深い。(鈴木信輔)
テンプレートを使っての作品がかわいく、おもしろく、ちゃんとコンセプトがありつつ、それ以前にキュッと魅きつけられる。(貝川晶子)
アート・イラスト・デザインどの領域でも通用します。素晴らしい。(飯野マサリ)
「街」というものの像が実際の場所や体験だけではなく、デジタルも含め構成されていることの指摘は新しい気づきになった（井手 聡太）
UNKNOWNASIAの本拠地である大阪と言葉を超えたPixel技法でみんなの共感を完成度高く表現している（チョンウチ）
ジャンルにも業界にも場所にもとらわれることなく勝負出来るクリエイター。思いの強さと可能性の大きさが突出していました。アジア発の大きな仕事、プロジェクト、一緒にやりましょう！(庄野 裕晃）

Congratulations on the Grand Prize of UNKNOWN ASIA 2019!! A Seoul based artist Mirim Chu expresses a city landscape captured by Google map using designs and pixels as elements of works. She searched unknown the city Osaka where UNKNOWN ASIA is held, and cut the cutting sheets to create Osaka Castle, Nakanoshima, and the facade of Osaka Station connecting to Grand Front Osaka where the venue of UNKNOWN ASIA 2019. She cut those elements into pictograms and pasted them on the wall at her booth to show as an installation art. A rabbit floating in the sky like element was 3 wards north of the Yodo River. What made me happy was she worked so hard to make a special exhibition for Osaka. Currently, political issue between Korea and Japan is so delicate, and she was the one being afraid of going to Osaka under this circumstance. But she said she was so glad and encouraged that many people asked about her artworks and give many kind words to her. UNKNOWN ASIA’s philosophy is ASIA is One; to connect artists who keep being creative despite of many difficulties. So, I really think it is very meaningful and symbolic thing that the Korean artist was evaluated and selected as a Grand Prize of this year. Peace! She also received 3 judge awards by Sota Ide, Jean Woochi and Hiroaki Shono.

Strong conceptual idea. Great exclusion.(Hermawan Tanjil )
I loved her process both research,sketch,display and installation. This booth not only have only art pieces but also have product and wall painting（Miss Kanoknuch Sillapawisawakul）
She expressed a shallow relationship as seen in SNS on paper; thin and light material; using the three-dimensional and abstract approach. (Takao Tsusumi)
I was attracted by her unique translation of Osaka with graphical expression. (Misato Ide)
Really cool works, I would like to have one. It’s like to get the city that we want. (Yoshiaki Kishida)
She made the Osaka icon map even she did not know about Osaka that is very attractive approach. I’m interested in seeing other city maps. (Shinsuke Suzuki)
Very Kawaii, fun, and conceptual works using templates. Above all things, it grabbed my heart. (Akiko Kaikawa)
Art / Illustration / Design Works in any sectors. Great. (Masari Iino)
Her way of indication that the image of “town” is composed not only of the actual place and experience but also digital is a new awareness for me. (Sota Ide)
Depicting Osaka, where the UNKNOW ASIA is held, by the pixel technique approach beyond the use of words expresses everyone's empathy with a high degree of perfection. （Woochi Jeon)
You have a great potential as a creator to compete regardless of genre, industry or place. Your thoughtful concepts and possibilities as a creator were outstanding. I am looking forward to working with you for projects from Asia to the world!(HIROAKI SHONO）

香港からの出店であるが、色鮮やかな細かな作風が印象深く、見ていて気持ちを和ませてくれる。ビジネス展開は未知数であるが、アート作品としては興味深い。(メビック）
すでにイラストがマーケットに出ている作家だが、大きなドローイングの作品には、クリティカルな現代美術として成立するパワーを感じた。（椿昇）

Oynchir, an illustrator from Hong Kong, exhibited a series of drawings based on stories of Chinese traditional novel “Dream of the Red Chamber” and British popular novel “Alice in the wonderland”. It might ooks like a classic line drawing in a classic story at the first impression, but there are various elements in the story, and it has a humorous aspect, making it a work that can be enjoyed in every detail.

Very detailed drawings with bright impression. I feel comfortable by her works. Unknown for the business sectors but quiet interesting as an art. (Mebic)
She is an professional illustrator, but I feel her works, especially big size of drawing has a power to be a critical modern art. (Noboru Tsubaki)

写真の新たな表現を体感させていただきました。Good craftをこれからも作り続けてください。(漆崎憲介)
香港の喧騒が静かに伝わってきてとても良かった(岩田量平)

Tiffany Lau is a Hong Kong based young photographer born in 1996. The theme of her black & white photograph series is “moving”. Now, protests are an ongoing series of demonstrations in Hong Kong. She messages citizen’s anxiety and noises living in Hong Kong through photographs. Black and white blurry photos tend to be less complete, but her photos are trying to capture the air, the moments and the current air of Hong Kong, and I think it is a successful key this time.

I experienced new expression by photographs. Keep it up! (KensukeUrushizaki)
Great works. I felt noise of Hong Kong quietly. (Ryohei Iwata)

ドクロとライトがクール！展示もシンプルで作品が目立ってかっこいい。作家さんもかっこよかった。(竹本勝)
今日一番ビビッドな作品だった。華があってキレがある。良い。（玉置泰紀）
プロのグラフィックデザイナー。ストリート感とセレブ感がライトボックスに結実（谷口純弘）
モダン×アート×ポップ全てのベクトルでレベル高い。(星加健)
新しいクリエイティブに触れた！(板倉康裕)
スタイリッシュでかっこ良かった。(村上雅彦)
死とライトという両極な表現が面白いと思った。あのプロダクトを使って「新しいお葬式」「明るいお葬式」が出来ると世界が変わると思った。(下田浩之)

HONG KO is an invited guest artist at the Hong Kong portfolio review. He is a popular creator working for big projects in Hong Kong. His “skull” artworks consisting from various typefaces from Hong Kong ancient traditional patterns and modern “emoji” lighting up by LED are really outstanding and stunning. This kind of “sophisticated” street feeling can be expressed because of him. And what impressed me was that his challenge of making this object work more handy with magnets. It seems to be exploring the potential of a product beyond the design. The Judge Phaparn Sirima Chaipreechawit Award and the reviewer Masaru Takemoto Award were given.

The work explores the Artist's question on Human's Perception and Analysis through the language of symbols which carries traditional believes in what's good or bad, black or white, right or wrong. In order to seek the in-between truth beyond transition, beyond definition and beyond image. （Phaparn Sirima Chaipreechawit）
Cool skulls and lightings! Awesome display focusing on artworks, and he is so stylish. (Masaru Takemoto)
Beautiful craftman ship and conceptual idea commercial art work.(Ignatius Hermawan Tanzil )
The most vivid works for me. So impressive and great. (Yadsunori Tamaki)
Professiona grafic designer. The light box evolves into street and celebrity feeling. (Yoshihiro Taniguchi)
High degree of perfection in regards of modern, art and pop. (Takeshi Hoshika)
Cool and fun! I would like to see your big solo exibision.(Takashi Yamaguchi)
I experienced new creative. (Yasuhiro Itakura)
Stylish and cool (Masahiko Murakami)
Curious expression by “death” and “light” which are on opposite terms. If we create “new funeral ceremony” and “bright funeral ceremony” using this product, our world might change. (Hiroaki Shimoda)

今回の展示（陶器+セラミック）と展示していないグラフィティとの間、差の大きさに面白さを感じる。(鈴木信輔)

AWS, the Hong Kong based very famous tree graffiti unit have collaborate with global companies such as NIKE. They created original ceramic pieces made in Jingdezhen. Gold colors works effectively and they are so cool! The T-shirt shaped vase was so temptation but I had to gave up because of price. Sad!

I am curious and interesting to feel the big gap between ceramics that they exhibited this time and graffiti that they did not exhibit. (Shinsuke Suzuki)

2画面で構成された作品は観る人の深い部分でシンクロする。それは彼のバツグンのセンスそのものである。(齊藤一樹)
ナラティブをとても感じる写真だ。数枚だけで一本の映画を見たような気分になる。こんな写真家と仕事がしたい。(垰田忘謙)
写真から詩があふれてくるとても美しいトーン。何度も見たくなる新鮮さを感じる。(甲田哲也)

Liu Xi, a Peking based photographer who I have been known for 3 years at WONDER FOTO DAY and Kansai Obaeba, specializes in combining two irrelevant photos and evoking the viewer's imagination. My impression is that this newest works are more sophisticated every especially in colors. The only thing I would like to advise is to put works in frames more carefully. It would be better looking and would be evaluated more, I think.

His way of approach showing 2 irrelevant photos synchronize at the viewer’s deepest part, and I felt it is because his great creative sense. (Kazuki Saito)
I felt “narrative” very much. It’s like I watched one movie by seeing a few of photographs. I would like to this type of photographer. (Mitsunori Taoda)
Poetic photographs with beautiful tones. I would like to look it again and again, and it is a fresh feeling for me. (Tetsuya Koda)

A Young Chinese artist born in 1992. Showing lots of pink dachshund was something eye-catchy. She explained that pink doggies were used to express fundamental emotions and desires that human have, however, it’s really hard for me to catch well why human emotions are expressed in the shape of doggies yet unfortunately.

自分の絵を大自然にも飾りたいとアイスランドに連れて行ってしまう感覚がCute！(築山万里子)

The artist from Shenzhen, cisleey come back to UNKNOWN ASIA this year, too. I remember her works of kissing men and women last year, it was very impactful. This year, she tried surreal approach with colorful acrylic painted installation art entitled “Green Cheek Human Blind Box”. Every box has an astonished face on it, and if you choose the one and open the box, you will see “your real face” inside. “I like to look at peoples at bus stops” - so you.

She wanted to decorate her works in nature, and she went to Iceland with it. I love that sense. Cute! (Mariko Tsukiyama)

完成度がずば抜けてると思いました。お仕事したいです。(井上正嗣)
絵のタッチ、雰囲気、色使いどれも素晴らしかったですし、私たちがやりたいことにもご協力いただけそうで、とても楽しみです♡(クナップデザイン）

ノスタルジックな雰囲気がよいですね。色つかいとか。まだ荒けずりで、途中な感じだけど将来性があるアーティストです。(池田誠)
ボーリングに行きたい。ピュア。(松村貴樹)
ボーリングモチーフを意外なところに反映させていて、ストライク！(野村雅夫)

深いテーマ性ながら一見ポップ。アーティストとしての奥行きを感じる。いつまでも見ていたい。(六甲ミーツ・アート 芸術散歩2019）
今の時代感覚をとらえた素晴らしい作品（ヒロ杉山）
大きいサイズの原画を韓国まで観に行きたいと思いました（永井 秀二）
アイコンが良かった。緻密でキュート(吉田貴紀)
映像のお仕事をお願いしたいと思いました。(オチアキラ)
迫力のある作品を生で実物で観てみたいです。(岸田吉哲)
カタログにある作品を見てみたいと思わせる、底の深さを感じる。(岩野翼)
大胆なエロを軽やかな空気感で。(わだたいぞう)
好みで言えば一番好きな作品でした。(曽我紗弥香)
あっとうされました（永井博）
伸びやかで自由なペインティングが素晴らしかったです。今回持ってこれなかった大型作品も見たかった！(光冨章高)

The impactful dynamic drawing filling the entire booth. The series titled “NIGHT FREAKS” drawn by painter Lee Eunsae, born in 1987, depict a strange, quiet, and underground nightlife. The small prints lined up on the booth are her alternative idea because the original picture was too big to bring into Japan. She showed me photos of the scenery of the exhibition; every piece was more than F200 size! I think this is the power of the original picture. The Judge Hiroshi Nagai Prize, Japanese legendary illustrator Nagai-san asked her, “What kind of brushes and material are you using?” Mr. Nagai, who already has a strong position in the art sector was certainly overwhelming with the power of her painting. The reviewer Akitaka Mitsutomi, vision track agent, Award went to her.

Despite of expressing esoteric theme, the first impression is POP taste. I felt her depth as an artist and I can not take my eyes off paintings. (Rokko Meets Art)
Great works capturing the feeling of NOW. (Hiro Sugiyama)
I thought I would like to go to Korea to see her big scale of original works. (Shuji Nagai)
works and cute atmosphere. (Takaki Yoshida)
I am interested in working with her for movies. (Akira Ochi)
I would like to see the original which must be impactful. (Yoshiaki Kishida)
Her works moved audiences to see all works in the catalogue. She has something depth as an artist. (Tasuku Iwano)
Expressing bold erotisim in light atmosphere. (Daizou Wada)
My best works (Sayaka Soga)
I was overwhelmed. (HIroshi Nagai)
Great paintings. I really want to see the big work that you were unable to bring this time. (Akitaka Mitsutomi)

現代的な軽快な構成にテキスタイルの構成が新鮮。(岩野翼)
カンデンスキーラバーな感じが2000年代にとても新鮮。(豊田弘治)
素晴らしい、バランスも色も(山内俊徳)
くすっと笑えるチャーミングな作品。(大矢礼子)
私が選んだチャムパカさんの作品には音楽とアートの親和性をとても強く感じました。アートと音楽の融合は数多いのですが、この作品と音楽の関わり方や表現に強いインスピレーションを受けました。毎年アンノウンアジアの審査をするたびに新しい作品や作家に出会えるのが楽しいです。地元を離れて新しいこの場所で作品を発表し続けて成長する作家がいます。ここは成長するきっかけの場所であると思います。（エリックチュウ）
セラピーという通り、癒されました。とても好きです！(井上正嗣) 一目見た時に、グラフィカルでありながら、線に温かみを感じて、思わず立ち止まりました。気持ちをグラフィックで表現することは、とても難しいと思うのですが、彼女の作品からは言葉が通じなくても想いが読み取れるような気がしました。また、刺繍を施すことで、人の気配が感じられるとても好きな作品でした。(田原奈央子)
感情を音楽と共に自分の中へ落とし込み、形で表現するという方法が面白かった。作家の想いがしっかりと表現されていた。(的場大輔)

She was one of the most evaluated creators and competed the Grand Prize Award. The Indonesian creator Cempaka Surakusumah makes Kadinsky like abstract lines and circles to ease herself. What made me amazed was that every element is done by embroidery that requires lots of works! The graphical display spreading to the wall was also very interesting.

Thank you for coming all the way.We are fascinated by your such a beautiful Geometry designs! We hope you keeo creating good one!!(stylem）
Light and modern impression, and the overall layout is fresh. (Tasuku Iwano)
Kadinsky lover in 2020. Very fresh impression. (Koji Toyoda)
Awesome. Good balance and colors. (Toshinori Yamauchi)
It makes me smile. Very charming works. (Reiko Oya)
Cempaka work is about transferring her feeling about emotion and her love of music that she love into graphic dan abstract element. Her exproration with fabric, printed technic and embrodery is very Settle and beautiful !(Ignatius Hermawan Tanzil)
I felt the relationship with music and art from her works. It’s very traditional collaboration, but what made me impressive is her approach with the artwork and the music. I am so happy to discover new talent as a judge of UNKNOWN ASIA every year. I think this is a place of grown for creators.(ERIC ZHU)
As she expresses “therapy”, I was so eased. I like it very much (Masatsugu Inoue)
Not only for the graphical approach but very warm at the same time. I feel expressing the state of mind by graphic would be difficult, it seems that I can understand it from her works even I don’t know her language. And,I felt someone’s existence by embroidering. I love her works. (Naoko Tahara)
Her approach to connect emotions and music inside her and to express as an object with full of her feelings. (Daisuke Matoba)

A photographer from Indonesia. He was fascinated by the travel to India and made an installation. He wanted people to experience India not only with photos but also with sound and smell. Incense was burned at the booth. From the headphones, a horn of traffic jams reverberating constantly. If you listen to it, it ’s not an angry thing that reminds you that I ’m here, so it ’s not an anger that a driver sounds a horn in India, he says.

自分自身がシャイで、作品を通して自分のユートピアを、自分も含む人間の中にある「怪物」を、ブリューゲルやボスを現代的に解釈したような「怪物」のモチーフで精緻に描きこんだ作品で、個人的には最も好きな作品です。（堤　たか雄）

Evan is an illustrator and runs a design studio called “Show The Monster” in Jakarta. “Dancing In The Dark”, a work that flashes Japanese neon lights, expresses the pleasure of nighttime dancing in clubs and buying snacks at convenience stores. The reliefs made with the clay around them seem to have a lot of fun. Low Design Shinya Muratsubaki Reviewer Award. It looks good on the web. He posted INSTAGRAM that he has enjoyed friends he met at UNKNOWN ASIA, and it makes me happy. Thanks for coming.

Through this work, he has drawn his own utopia with a motif of a “monster” that is a modern interpretation of Bruegel and a Bosh, and the “monster” exist inside us. Personally, this is my favorite work. (Takao Tsutsumi)

人間のキャラ勝ち。アーティスト込みの作品感。(豊田弘治)
可愛かった。(田口あい)
線、色、キャラの描き方などバランスよいです。きっと日本でも仕事ができると思います(池田誠)

Ykha Amelz is a funky anyway. An illustrator who works with lots of creators in Jakarta. She is busy and don’t have time to sleep because of too many submission deadlines. She said that’t me pointing the drawing. She drew herself wearing “Fighting Spirit Hachimaki”. Funky illustrations and her bulldog character “BABBOT” definitely cheers up the viewer. And, she was the best character of the year with her green hair more than anything! Her Instagram story “UNKNOWN ASIA” is fun anyway. I'm glad that she posted the party at THE STORIES the night before! FM 802DJ Higuchi Daiki Reviewer Award. It would be nice to do something like the FM802 radio-timetable.

The artist herself has a great personality, and it was a good presentation with her and arts. (Koji Toyoda)
Kawaii (Ai Taguchi)
Good balance in lines, colors, and characters. She will be able to work with Japanese clients, too. (Makoto Ikeda)

ストリートカルチャと大衆文化をタイのイメージとよくMIXしている（Zinoo Park）
MIX clutureをうまく表現していてバックボーンの見える良い作品だった。(山本直樹)
日本のアニメカルチャーとの融合具合がおもしろい。(西田陽介)
キャラが良いです。(寺田順三)

This is also a funky presentation! Fritilldea is very popular creator in Malaysia working with major clients like Mercedes-Benz, RedBull, Grab etc. He participated to UNKNOWN ASIA through “Snackfood” that is very supportive to the Japanese illustrator Tatsuya Inoue in Kuala Lumpur. Very nice presentation with full of “hot” vibes of the creative scene in Malaysia. I wanna go there someday. I also like his Instagram. He was so excited to take a picture with Hiroshi Nagai, a legendary illustrator and our judge together.

Well mixed expression of street culture and pop culture. (Zinoo Park)
Good works that show us his backbone by expressing mixed cultures. (Naoki Yamamoto)
Interesting the degree of fusion with Japanese animation culture. (Yosuke Nishida)
personal character (Junzo Terada)

アジア全域のイメージのコラージュはリアルな個人を感じ、強いパワーを感じた。（井手 聡太）
作品+タロット占い+彼女自身+香り。ブース全体で楽しませてくれた。記憶に残る出展者でした。(村上雅彦)

So strong magnetic vibes from her booth. Inji Darwish aka Human Sketchbook is the Malaysian creator. She taught graphic design and design communication at an art university in England. While she was researching the art history, she awake to be a creator and published a tarot fortune telling book named QUE, which means BE in Arabic. Her booth displaying her tarots was so unique. She asked me to pull one card, and this is it. “It’s an adventure sign” she said. So many buzz at the venue that “Ingi’s tarot fortune telling is scarily accurate”!

Her collages with the impression of across Asia made me feel a realistic individual, and I received strong power. (Sota Ide)
Artworks, fortune telling, herself and aromas. She expressed all she has in her booth. Impressive exhibitor. (Masahiko Murakami)

台湾出身。アメリカで活動されている彼女の間違いない技術とデザインセンスに出会い今年のレビュアー賞を渡したいと思いました。(村上雅彦)
幼い頃飼っていたブルドッグがメインモチーフで魅かれる。(木本起佐子)

Elaine was born in Taiwan and now she is based in San Francisco. So detailed! Her work is very detailed with small dots. It takes one month to draw a small cat with dots. I like the story of traveling bulldog. Awards of the gallery MAISON D'ART Kisaki Kimoto reviewer and Skelton Crew Studio Masahiko Murakami reviewer. It is quiet interesting review awards from opposite scenes of “art” and “game

Born and raised in Taiwan, now she is an artist in the United States. Her solid technique and great design sense moved me to give my award to her. (Masahiko Murakami)
I was attracted the main elements, the bulldog she lived together in her childhood. (Kisako Kimoto)