Guest Artists / Authorized Artist Products

At Aka Miniverse, I want this tiny universe to grow beyond my own creations.

The Guest Artist collection features selected works from independent artists and makers, including artisan keycap designers, metal pin artists, and other creators of small collectible goods.

Each artist brings their own style, story, and creative identity to Aka Miniverse. All guest artist products are listed with authorization from the original artist, allowing this shop to become a shared space for more tiny worlds, charming details, and artist-made treasures.

WANI WANI

WANI WANI is a 6-year original keyboard-accessory studio specializing in pastel, kawaii artisan keycaps and desk accessories. Their work blends cats, desserts, translucent resin effects, stars, shells, roses, and tiny fantasy details into miniature pieces that feel like decorative scenes for your keyboard.

Compared with more standard novelty keycaps, WANI WANI’s designs have a softer and more cohesive visual world—sweet, dreamy, collectible, and instantly recognizable.

How does WANI WANI make each keycap?

Each design begins as a digitally sculpted and 3D-printed master.

WANI WANI then sands and refines the prototype by hand before using it to create a mold for resin casting. One important detail is the stem: the MX-style stem is cast together with the keycap body as one solid piece, rather than being printed or glued on separately. This gives the stem a stronger connection and helps the finished keycap sit straight and properly aligned on the keyboard.

After casting, each piece is refined again and individually painted using brushes and airbrush techniques. So while the design starts digitally, much of the finishing work is still done by hand, giving each keycap its own small handmade character.

JiJi Studio


JiJi Studio creates arcade-inspired artisan keycaps filled with retro gaming charm. Joysticks, colorful game buttons, tiny screws, vents, switches, and rounded console-like forms turn each design into a miniature piece of arcade hardware.

Rather than simply decorating the surface of a keycap, JiJi Studio builds each design almost like a tiny model.

What makes a JiJi Studio keycap different?

Each design begins with a digitally sculpted and 3D-printed master, which is refined before molds are made for resin casting.

The main keycap body and MX-style stem are cast together as one solid piece, creating a durable and properly aligned foundation. But that is only the beginning.

Many of the smaller details are cast separately as individual components. Depending on the design, a single keycap can contain more than 10 tiny pieces. Each component is cleaned, refined, individually painted, and then carefully assembled onto the main body. This multi-part construction allows JiJi Studio to create shapes, layers, color separation, and tiny mechanical details that would be extremely difficult to achieve as one solid piece.

The finishing is one of the things that impresses me most. Resin casting naturally creates mold parting lines and occasional flashing, but JiJi Studio carefully cleans and refines each component before assembly. The finished surfaces can be remarkably clean—even around very small parts where imperfections would normally be easy to notice.

Why do new JiJi Studio designs take so long?

JiJi Studio is not a creator who rushes a design just to release something new.

In 2026, I purchased an early prototype from their upcoming second series and expected the collection to be released soon. JiJi Studio later decided that several components could still be improved and asked me to hold off on selling it. Instead of accepting something that was already close to finished, the design was revised and the production process started again from the prototype stage.

That experience gave me an even greater appreciation for the amount of care and patience behind these keycaps. New collections may take a long time to appear, but JiJi Studio would rather keep refining a design than release it before they are satisfied with its appearance and quality.

BANJiTiNO

BANJiTiNO creates collectible metal pins and magnets with a simple, highly expressive design style. What I love about their work is how little they need to make a character recognizable. A coat pattern, a pair of ears, a fluffy muzzle, a long body, or one tiny expression can immediately tell you which cat or dog you are looking at.

That simplicity doesn't mean the characters lack personality. Some collections are inspired by the distinctive traits of different animals, while others build an entire personality around the character. The Introvert Dino series, for example, turns different socially awkward moments into individual dinosaur characters—each with its own little worries, habits, and attitude.

What makes BANJiTiNO's pins stand out?

The physical quality was another reason I wanted to bring BANJiTiNO's work into Aka Miniverse.

Their pins are made with a substantial metal body approximately 2 mm thick, giving them a solid feel that I immediately noticed when handling them in person. Combined with clean colored finishes and well-defined shapes, the pins feel like proper little collectibles rather than lightweight novelty accessories.

For me, BANJiTiNO strikes a balance I really like: the artwork is simple enough to be instantly readable, but thoughtful enough that every character still has an identity of its own. That combination of expressive design and substantial physical quality is why I wanted to introduce their work to the Aka Miniverse collection.

Keystone Keycap 键石

Keystone Keycap is a metal keycap artist with over nine years of experience, known for geometric designs that turn the surface of a keycap into something almost architectural. Waves, grids, spirals, facets, repeating patterns, and sharply defined surfaces interact with light from different angles, giving each design a distinctly engineered character.

That engineered aesthetic is one of the main reasons I wanted to introduce Keystone Keycap at Aka Miniverse. As a mechanical engineer myself, I have always found beauty in precisely designed geometry, and Keystone’s work captures that feeling especially well. Their designs feel decorative without losing the clean, structured language of an engineered object.

How are Keystone metal keycaps made?

The designs begin digitally in SolidWorks, where the geometry and keycap form are modeled before production.

The finished keycap body is made from zinc-aluminum alloy through die casting, giving it the weight, rigidity, and distinctly metallic feel that separates it from resin or plastic artisan keycaps.

The metal surface is then electroplated to create its final finish. Combined with the sculpted geometry, the reflective plating changes dramatically as light moves across the different ridges, facets, curves, and recessed areas.

For me, that combination is what makes Keystone especially interesting: CAD-designed geometry, die-cast metal, and colorful electroplated finishes all contribute to the final design. It is a very different approach to artisan keycaps from the hand-painted resin work of many of the other artists at Aka Miniverse, and that difference is exactly why I wanted their work to be part of the collection.

Aka Miniverse is always looking for new creative friends.


We hope to keep bringing more original artists, small studios, and independent makers into our guest artist collection. If your work has a unique style, a strong sense of personality, and a little bit of magic, we would love to hear from you. We welcome officially authorized collaborations for artisan keycaps, pins, magnets, stickers, acrylic goods, desk accessories, and other collectible art pieces. Every artist will be credited and introduced with care.

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