comic illustrations by contemporary malaysian character designers and illustrators were  on show, amongst a variety of furniture objects in designboom’s ‘asia now‘ exhibition at dwell on design  in los angeles.

‘hoverhogs air force’ by actiontintoy studio

actiontintoy studio is a 10 year old character design group based in kuala lumpur. the studio is involved in international design collaboration campaigns to aid in promoting and increasing awareness of the malaysian design industry.

‘hoverhogs air force’ depicts the fun adventures and battles of talking farm animals, featuring action-packed aerial combat sequences with elements of the world war 2 era.

malaysian artists at asia now - 2 a collage of various works by actiontintoy studio

malaysian artists at asia now - 3 image © designboom

graphic panels illustrated the current production of art, architecture, crafts and design in malaysia.

malaysian artists at asia now - 4 ‘octupus’ and ‘monk key’ by kenji chai images © kenji chai

works by street artist and illustrator kenji chai.

malaysian artists at asia now - 5 ‘heaven&hell’ and ‘monkey2’ by kenji chai images © kenji chai

malaysian artists at asia now - 6 ‘crash bang zombie’ and ‘bela vs urban creature’ by sau lim a.k.a. slaium

malaysian artists at asia now - 7 exhibition panel image © designboom

malaysian artists at asia now - 8 detail image © designboom

malaysian artists at asia now - 9 ‘twisted mind’ and ‘migration’ by 1000tentacles™

for over 20 years artists leong wankok and khor pheikhoy of 1000tentacles™  have been producing commercial illustrations, prints, comics, character designs, toy sculptures and 3D art.

malaysian artists at asia now - 10 ‘wonder woman at the city’ and ‘do you remember me’ by troublexy kelseyz

illustrations by multimedia designer troublexy kelseyz.

malaysian artists at asia now - 11 ‘fighting monster’ by troublexy kelseyz

malaysian artists at asia now - 12 ‘sky wonderland’ by troublexy kelseyz

malaysian artists at asia now - 13 ‘group characters’ by michael chuah

michael chuah (a.k.a c2v) plays the role of a character designer and comic book artist. in 2003 michael and his two friends lefty and chi sau founded the gilamon studio which specializes in graphic storytelling, character design and graphic design.

malaysian artists at asia now - 14 ‘major zombie. jr.’ by michael chuah