Hello Kitty may be Sanrio's biggest and most recognizable character, but she is actually much smaller physically than fans ...

Hello Kitty fans are shocked as the annual Sanrio Popularity Poll comes to a close, with Cinnamoroll not placing first like ...

Who is Hello Kitty? Yuko Shimizu, the Sanrio employee who created Hello Kitty, told BBC that her design for the character was "a white cat with a red bow in its hair." She added how the ...

Considered Hello Kitty’s third designer (Shimizu left Sanrio three years after inventing the character and was replaced by Setsuko Yonekubo, who briefly oversaw the design in the late 1970s ...

And Hello Kitty is that." The character may be seen differently in Japan than here, said Mika Nishimura, a design professor at Tokyo's Meisei University.

Yano says her lasting appeal is attributed to her design, which evokes a sense of sweetness, nostalgia, and universality. “You think about 50 years of a figure, a character, a toy, like Hello Kitty.

Hello Kitty turns 50 on Friday. Befitting a pop icon at midlife, the bubble-headed, bow-wearing character’s fictional birthday has brought museum exhibits, a theme park spectacle and a national ...

Sanrio is celebrating 50 years of the iconic Japanese character Hello Kitty. But, despite her name, Hello Kitty is not actually a cat. She's a girl.

Hello Kitty turns 50 on Friday. Befitting a pop icon at midlife, the bubble-headed, bow-wearing character's fictional birthday has brought museum exhibits, a theme park spectacle and a national tour.

The Hello Kitty and Friends Cafe opens Friday at Universal City Walk. Some drove hundreds of miles to the first Hello Kitty cafe in L.A. - Los Angeles Times News ...

Considered Hello Kitty’s third designer (Shimizu left Sanrio three years after inventing the character and was replaced by Setsuko Yonekubo, who briefly oversaw the design in the late 1970s ...