Eric So

Occupation: 
Artist/Toy Designer

Born in Hong Kong 1968, where he based. Eric is a multi – media artist and Creative Director of Papamamason. After graduating from design school, Eric joined an advertising agency and was made Creative Director. Ten years later Eric headed down a new road in creative freelancing that marked the beginning of his work in freestyle illustration and design. In 1996, his first exhibition named “Sex, Sex, Sex and More Sex” was held at Hong Kong Art Centre.

Eric started creating figures as a medium to present his messages in 1998. “The Art of Bruce Lee” world tour in 1999 to 2000 which exhibited in USA, Japan and Hong Kong brought him a succeed throughout the world and had a cooperation with Medicom Toys. In the past years, Eric has worked with various medium and art form and has invited to work in numerous projects with different brand names and organizations. To name a few: Motorola, Coca-Cola, Nike, Toyota, SONY, Dark Horse, DC Shoes, Japan pop singing group Chemistry, Meiji….the list goes on.

Eric’s passion in art had led him to work with and became friends with artists around the globe. KAWS (USA), Pushead (USA), Arata (Japan), Endo(Japan), Edison Chen, Sam Lee, Shannon Lee (daughter of Bruce Lee)…..