(Photo: A replica of the first ever Hello Kitty product. Credit: Getty Images) Her design – a white cat with a red bow in its hair – only took a couple of days to complete. Yuko asked her ...

Hello Kitty's first collaboration was with an electronics ... building and sustaining the Hello Kitty brand are 'simplicity of design,' 'character licensing,' 'collaboration with third parties ...

Based on some of the very first old-school items that featured ... Adorning these objects is the original Hello Kitty design, which showcased the cute cat sitting down while looking sideways.

“Shrewd” is how Mika Nishimura, a design professor at Tokyo ... “The main theme of Hello Kitty is friendship. When I first created it, I made a family of which Kitty was a part.