I’m Amber Renée Fawn,
a nostalgic artist & alt pop culture archaeologist.
My love for alternative popular culture, art, and design started in childhood. These passions inspired me to travel, and I eventually found myself living in Japan to study Japanese language, culture, and design. Of course this caused my brain to become overflowing with so many ideas it was like a capsule machine, just waiting for the time to come and the dial to be turned. But, when would the time come?
I’ve had a busy life and have had the opportunity to live so many different lives. To design for and collaborate with some amazing companies such as Tokyolux, Hasbro, Sanrio, and Stila Cosmetics. I’ve even been on TBS’s Dinner and a Movie due to my former podcast, Wild + Tame, but my personal work always felt like it was sitting on a curio shelf.
After teaming up with other lapel pin artists on the Pin Street collaborative project, I combined my love for 80s nostalgia and alt pop art to bring more of my creations to life. I opened my new shop in 2016 while on a sunny vacation in California, touring Melrose with my best friend. There was something missing for us in this new shopping culture, and something that I knew I had to create.
While I’m still doing web/graphic/social media alongside my art and accessory shop, I also do the occassional podcast, publish my former zines into books, write books about manifestation, and set-up trinket troves and/or public interactive art displays.
The most precious thing I’ve learned on my journey
is that we don’t have to live in darkness; we can choose to live in color.
Professional Biography
Amber Renee Cunningham is an award-winning artist, author, and brand manager known for her colorful, psychedelic designs that challenge the limits of traditional art. Her unique aesthetic, inspired by living in both the United States and Japan, is a fusion of Japanese and West Coast alternative pop culture movements.
With a career defined by collaborations with high-profile companies (Sanrio, Sketchers, and Hasbro’s My Little Pony) and controversial public figures (Audrey Kitching, Tonia Haddix of Chimp Crazy), Amber Renee is inspired by challenging conventional ideas. Her book, The Lucky Girl Syndrome Guidebook, dives into inspiration and manifestation techniques that have changed her life. While her podcast, Pink Cassette, co-hosted with Vanessa Daisy De La Hoya, explores topics such as self-improvement, creativity, and popular culture, offering unique and eccentric perspectives by women who have been through a lot of experiences.
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