BALLOON FRIENDS

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Let’s go on a weird and messy adventure with Four balloon friends with different personalities and looks, an endless imagination.
BALLOON FRIENDS is a character brand created by Korean artist KIMNEW. It was born in August 2019 and officially launched in May 2020. The brand develops character merchandise, design stationery, and fashion and lifestyle goods around the story of four friends made of balloons who leave the small California shop “DAINS STORE” and travel to various places. Its philosophy is “An Adventure to Find Myself,” and it portrays discoveries and changes made during the journey as a story of self-discovery. The brand has a character line and a pattern/design studio line, and is expanding into licensing, corporate collaborations, storybooks, and animation.

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An Adventure to Find Myself

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2020
2020 Sub-brand
BFMA CHARACTER LABEL
Lifestyle products

Core line responsible for stories and character products

BFMA CHARACTER LABEL is one of the two official labels that make up BALLOON FRIENDS MESSY

BFMA CHARACTER LABEL is one of the two official labels that make up BALLOON FRIENDS MESSY ADVENTURE (BFMA), and its core line centers on four balloon characters and their adventure stories. It handles category products such as design stationery, character licensing, and publishing and animation based on the stories, with a distinct role from BFMA DESIGN STUDIO LABEL, which covers patterns and home decoration as well as collaborations with companies and artists. It is positioned as the character-focused label that directly develops the parent brand’s story world into products and content.

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BFMA DESIGN STUDIO LABEL
Art projects

A production line focused on patterns and lifestyle offerings

BFMA DESIGN STUDIO LABEL is another official label within BALLOON FRIENDS MESSY ADVENTURE.

BFMA DESIGN STUDIO LABEL is another official label within BALLOON FRIENDS MESSY ADVENTURE. Unlike CHARACTER LABEL, which directly turns character stories into products, it works with patterns on a variety of themes, artwork, fabrics, design products, home décor, and collaborations. The official website refers to its production base in the pattern field as BFMA PATTERN STUDIO, where it develops patterns and a diverse range of products for everyday life. It is positioned as a design production label that extends character IP into other forms of expression.

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