BEHIND THE WORK: New Danvillage Mascot Alert! Meet Whimbus! ☁️✏️
Whimbus is the cloud spirit of DANVILLAGE.
Long before DANVILLAGE became a place in my head, it was just a floating idea drifting through the airwaves of old cartoons, synth music, arcade games, sketchbooks, and late-night imagination.
Some say Whimbus was born when:
a forgotten Saturday morning cartoon, a melted VHS tape, a mixtape full of dreamy synth music, and a sketchbook full of doodles…
all collided inside a thundercloud during a cosmic lightning storm in 1988 (kind of like Weird Science).
Instead of creating chaos… it created joy.
Whimbus became a wandering spirit of creativity, floating through strange colorful worlds collecting inspiration from everywhere: neon arcades, surreal cartoons, rubber hose animation, weird MTV music videos, underground comics, toy stores, skate graphics, old Nintendo games, and sticker-covered Trapper-Keepers.
But Whimbus noticed something missing in the world: People were forgetting how to play. Forgetting how to imagine. Forgetting how to create things just because they make people smile.
So Whimbus created DANVILLAGE. A whimsical dream-world where: creativity matters more than perfection, weird ideas are celebrated, kindness is cool, imagination never grows up, and art connects everybody together.
The pencil through Whimbus cloud body represents:
“Creativity flowing through your soul.”
The third eye represents:
imagination, empathy, and seeing beauty where others don’t.
The heart hands symbolize:
peace, love, connection, and making art that brings people together.
Whimbus isn’t just a mascot.
He’s the guardian of creative joy.
And stylistically?
Whimbus feels like a mashup of:
a lost Sanrio character
a 1980’s MTV identity
a forgotten arcade mascot
a Saturday morning cartoon host
and an indie vinyl toy collectible.
Those are the kinds of characters I love to invent. The kind that have a meaningful back story and loads of story telling potential. So, what do you think of Whimbus?
