The two artists who drew 5,000 Lantern Cats by hand

One shared studio, no copied cats and a lantern swap that goes live this week. We spent a day with the illustrators behind the collection.

Published Oct 8, 2026, 13:48 UTC · 1 min read

The studio is a single room above a bakery, with two desks facing each other.

One studio, two styles

Each artist drew half the cats, and neither copied a cat the other had drawn.

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