February 23, 2011

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Walls360.com/Press

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Yiying Lu, the Sydney-based artist behind Twitter’s now infamous “Fail Whale” illustration (and subsequent spin-offs — like the Conan O’Brien inspired “Pale Whale”) has an obsession with mixing cute animals and technology in her work. Now, as the co-founder of a new company called WALLS 360, she hopes to revolutionize the world of adhesive wall graphics by using premium fabric paper that can be moved up to 100 times…

FlavorWire: The US Debut of “Fail Whale” Artist Yiying Lu

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Twitter’s iconic ‘Fail Whale’ made Sydneysider Yiying Lu one of the web’s most exposed designers and now it’s taken her to Silicon Valley where she has just unleashed a new startup promising to provide “art for everywhere”.

Sydney Morning Herald: Aussie ‘Fail Whale’ Designer’s Next Big Hit

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Conan O’Brien is entering a new post-“Tonight Show” era with his return to late night. For the occasion, the bearded, rebranded television show host and Twitter celebrity asked artist Yiying Lu to create his very own version of Twitter’s “fail whale” called the “Pale Whale.” Lu has other news: She has co-founded a start-up that will launch in San Francisco next month.

Los Angeles Times: Artist Creates Twitter Homage for Conan O’Brien

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The impressive geek following has taken Lu from Sydney to Silicon Valley, where she and several partners have just launched Walls360.com. The site sells high quality prints of art that can be stuck on to walls. The type of self-adhesive fabric used means the art appears to be painted on to the wall and can be easily moved without damaging any surfaces. There is a huge selection of art…

Sydney Morning Herald: Aussie ‘Fail Whale’ Designer’s Next Big Hit

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WALLS 360 premium wall graphics are printed on a fabric like material that will stick to almost any surface – from walls and windows to ceilings and around corners. They can be removed and re-hung 100 times without losing adhesion, leaving a mark, or damaging your walls. The quality of the 5 foot tall Spock decal that they sent me is amazing. The vibrant colors make it look very life like and it was really easy to hang on the wall…

The Gadgeteer: WALLS 360 Launches Star Trek Wall Graphics

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WALLS 360 aims to give artists, companies, designers, photographers, and anyone else who wants to hang high-quality imagery their walls an easy and inexpensive way to do so. The company’s secret sauce is what co-founder John Doffing called premium self-adhesive repositionable fabric paper, essentially a high-brow fabric sticker that enables very high-resolution print-outs of any digital image, even up to 8 feet tall, and which can be placed on a wall in such a way that it’s very hard to see that it’s not painted on. And then it can be taken down and moved in seconds, up to 100 times, and all, Doffing said, without damaging any surfaces. The material can even be crumpled up and then flattened out again without any obvious wrinkles. Doffing explained that material can accept printouts of up to 1,400 dpi using environmentally friendly inks. The company is handling the printing itself at a facility in Maryland….

CNET: ‘Fail Whale’ Creator Aims to Democratize Art

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Everything, regardless of the imagery, is printed on-demand, and WALLS 360 will keep no inventory, he said. WALLS 360 hopes to lure in customers with relatively low prices – a 6-foot image comes delivered for just $90, and many sets are selling for less than $40. Doffing says that WALLS 360 is aiming to be the “Zazzle or Cafepress for wall graphics.”

All Things Digital: ‘Fail Whale’ Creator Aims to Democratize Art

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United States TV host, comedian and Twitter addict Conan O’Brien has turned to the Australian artist who created Twitter’s Fail Whale image to help launch his new show…

The Daily Telegraph: Aussie Artist’s a Heavy Twitter

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On Monday night television, Conan O’Brien rides again. But until then, the comedian is saddled up for a gallop on the “Fail Whale.” O’Brien has been immortalized by Yiying Lu, the artist who created the image Twitter users see when the micro-blogging site is down…

CNN: Web Darling Conan Rides the ‘Pale Whale’

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It was a delight when the artist behind Twitter’s infamous Fail Whale – Yiying Lu – stopped by to say hello and shower Team Coco with gifts! Aside from being SUPER talented and INSANELY awesome, Yiying was also nice enough to sit down and talk to us a little bit about her inspiration behind the fail whale, as well as her newest project WALLS 360…

Team Coco: Watch Conan Meet Twitter’s Fail Whale Artist!

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“Basically WALLS 360 is like a real world version of Flickr, where individual artists can upload their work and it ends up going onto a real wall,” Lu said. “It’s repositionable art work. The tagline of the company is ‘Art for Everywhere’.”

Central Magazine Sydney: Fail Whale Artist Creates the Conan O’Brien Pale Whale

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Lu is excited about the prospect of WALLS 360, which she sees as a new medium that could help bring art to the masses and perhaps even eventually allow people to bring the virtual to the real, such as sticking their tweets on the wall…

San Francisco Chronicle: Yiying Lu Makes Splash with Twitter’s ‘Fail Whale’

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Tangrams For Teachers from WALLS 360 are a great learning tool…

Trend Hunter: Interactive Education Graphics

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The Tangram Set is a great interactive learning tool that is a must have for anyone with children. Kids will enjoy playing with these wall stickers to create different shapes and designs right on the wall, or any surface for that matter. The designs you can create with these colorful tangrams are endless, it’ll allow them to get creative, and the fact that they simply peel and stick will give the kids a fun experience. I know I enjoyed playing with these!

Holy Cool: WALLS 360 Interactive Wall Graphics from Yiying Lu

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An incarnation of Tetris has managed to find itself on nearly every platform imaginable. So, what’s the Tetris Company supposed to do now? It’s obvious: break the traditional definition of a platform. In collaboration with WALLS 360, Tetris is now “available” to play on your wall…

Joystiq: Tetris Finds Another Platform: Your Wall

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WALLS 360 have teamed up with the Tetris brand to create this removable, Tetris-themed wall art. It’s about as classy as videogame-themed wall art gets, so if you’re looking to give your living space a gaming feel without the use of space marines or baby-esque plumbers, this might be your best bet…

Destructoid: Play Tetris In Real Life With This Badass Wall Art

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Jumping onto the growing trend of video-game themed wall graphics we’ve seen in recent months, WALLS 360 has teamed up with Tetris licensor Blue Planet Software to offer peel-and-stick decal sets based on the iconic Russian puzzler. Walls 360 is pitching the repositionable graphics as “interactive wall art”, as they allow owners to move around the seven Tetrimino piece shapes to create whatever block design they’d like…

GameSetWatch: ‘Interactive’ Tetris Wall Graphics For Your Home

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What’s the latest platform Tetris is available on? Your wall! You can now play Tetris in real life using these interactive re-positionable wall decals by WALLS 360. The collection includes different shapes of Tetrimino and is available as 4″ and 12″ squares. Buy it here (Packs start at $35)…

HolyCool: Tetris Interactive Wall Graphics

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The folks behind the Shorty Awards presented a #ShortyArtShow, celebrating past Shorty Award winner and Fail Whale creator Yiying Lu. The extremely humbled Lu displayed art from her new wall graphics start-up, WALLS 360 at NYC’s Gallery Bar and encouraged guests to take home one of many re-useable wall graphics on display…

Socially Superlative: Shorty Art Show with Yiying Lu

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We wanted to give a big thank you to everyone who came out to the #ShortyArtShow last week at New York City’s Gallery Bar. Artist @YiyingLu and WALLS 360 put on an amazing show with their innovative wall art. In addition to a groundhog designed specifically for the art show (which took place on Groundhog’s day), Yiying was campaigning for @ConanObrien by displaying the Pale Whale she made for him this past fall!

Shorty Awards Blog: Thanks for Coming to the #ShortyArtShow!

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Exclusive: The Creator of the Fail Whale Roots for Team Coco at the #ShortyArtShow…

MediaBistro: The Creator of the Fail Whale Roots for Team Coco

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WALLS 360 is a new start up that creates on demand self-adhesive re-positionable wall graphics for artists and designers from around the world. The company is co-founded by Australian artist Yiying Lu, who is also the creative director. And naturally, Walls 360 is featuring a great collection of interactive wall art by Yiying Lu…

Holy Cool: WALLS 360 Interactive Wall Graphics from Yiying Lu

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Who doesn’t love Tetris? In fact I still find myself playing the classic game once and awhile. But aside from playing the game, wouldn’t it be fun to have Tetris adorn your walls? Come on, I bet you have thought about it atleast once. The famous Tetriminos are being offered by WALLS 360 as Interactive Wall Art for real-world walls. The Tetris wall graphics, are movable and “playable.” The wall art graphics are offered in the shape of all seven Tetrimino pieces, ranging in size from 4” to 12” squares. Sets range between $35 and $195 each. And the best part is, the more abstract ways you place the Tetrimino’s on your walls, the cooler it will look – no game over here…

ChipChick: Tetris Tetriminos as Wall Art

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Thanks to WALLS 360, Tetris fans can now decorate their walls with large-format, re-positionable Tetriminos decals. Re-positionable? That’s right. These decals can be moved up to 100 times without losing adhesion. We like to think of it as a new way to play Tetris…on your walls!

GameFocus: Decorate Your Walls – Tetris Style!

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The wall graphics are of very high quality, and the colors are nice and vibrant. Applying the graphics on the walls are as simple as peel and stick. And let’s not forget the ‘re-positionable’ part, you can easily peel these graphics off the wall and stick them somewhere else as many times as you’d like (up to 100 times) and they will stick like new…

Holy Cool: WALLS 360 Interactive Wall Graphics from Yiying Lu

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Beam the Trek crew onto your walls with these fabric-paper decals from WALLS 360. Kirk, Spock, Bones, Sulu, Scotty and Uhura come in sizes from 1- to 8-feet tall. Hmm. Tiny Kirk, or giant Spock?

The Awesomer: Beam the Star Trek Crew Onto Your Walls

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If you lack interior design skills or simply are trying to cover up a hole in your drywall from that wild party last week, you need these Star Trek wall graphics. Sizes range from 1 foot to 8 feet tall for each character. Created by WALLS 360, these graphics stick to almost any surface, and can be removed and re-hung 100 times without loosing adhesion or damaging your walls. That means your wife won’t get pissed off when she sees Captain Kirk and Spock gracing the dining room with their presence…

10% Nerd: Star Trek Wall Graphics Energize Your Walls!

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Fail Whale creator Yiying Lu, who recently make the wonderful illustration for our Laughing Squid 15th Anniversary, is having a solo show featuring her interactive wall art on December 2nd at Hotel des Arts in San Francisco. The show will feature artwork from WALLS 360, a new startup she co-founded that creates premium wall graphics.

Laughing Squid: Yiying Lu Interactive Wall Art Show In San Francisco

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A new site is now up where you can order all kinds of cool wall art featuring various “Star Trek” scenes, ships, characters, and more. You can order many different sizes and types of images and certainly can find something to suit your home or apartment or wherever. I especially like the planet scapes and ship images. So check them out and order some cool “Trek” artwork HERE right away. Make it so!

Treks in Sci-Fi: New Star Trek Wall Art @ Walls360

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THE WALLS 360 PLATFORM:

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“Cool doesn’t quite cut it when describing WALLS 360. Between the artistry of the founders, the near-magic “re-positionable fabric paper” medium, and their on-demand production, this business could find some real legs as the WALLS 360 wall graphics platform expands to artists and designers globally. The WALLS 360 team posses the infectious founders’ passion necessary for success, and I am confident Twitter’s fantastic “fail whale” will not be Yiying’s last hit!”

G’Day USA: Lars Rassmussen (Google Maps, Google Wave, Facebook)

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“Our world is increasingly virtual as we live more of our lives online, and yet the visual potential of digital graphics remains largely confined to the screen,” says art critic and conceptual artist Jonathon Keats. “What makes WALLS 360 so compelling as a platform is that this technology visually subverts the distinction between online and off, between bits and atoms, as long ago anticipated by Star Trek.”

WALLS 360 Launches Star Trek Wall Graphics Collection

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“I exhibited giant re-positionable wall graphics of my digital artwork at the 2010 Creative Sydney opening at the Sydney Museum of Contemporary Art, and I have been experimenting with on-demand product creation for years,” according to Yiying Lu, Co-Founder and Creative Director of WALLS 360. “With WALLS 360, we are creating an on-demand custom wall graphics platform that brings digital visual content to real world walls. This is truly ART FOR EVERYWHERE!”

Walls360.com Launches On-Demand Premium Wall Graphics for Yiying Lu

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