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Article: Minipop culture: Craig Robinson's Minipops may have started off as a quirky hobby, but he underestimated the affectionate response people would have to his diminutive creations.(Profile)
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- Design Week
- Article date:
- November 11, 2004
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FOR those uninitiated into the world of Craig Robinson's Minipops, here's an explanation: they're famous people drawn really small. There's not much more to it than that. Even if you haven't seen them, it's not hard to imagine how these tiny, pixellated portraits might look. They're rather like characters from a 1980s computer game.
But delve a little deeper into Robinson's Minipop world, and you begin to see how there's a bit more sophistication to his craft than you might at first think. Maybe not subtlety, but certainly humour, an eye for characterisation, and more than an eye for spotting how the commercial world might go mad for his quirky illustrations, ...