KAWS is a designer of toys and clothing. He specializes in painting, sculpting, graphic design and graffiti. After he graduated, he worked for Disney as a freelance animator painting the backgrounds. He did that for 101 dalmatians. He began doing graffiti on billboards, bus shelters and phone booths. KAWS has also done work in Paris, London and Tokyo. In late 90's, KAWS produced vinyl toys and they were extremely popular in Japan. KAWS also made acrylic paintings and sculptures. KAWS remade his own versions of Mickey Mouse, the Smurfs and SpongeBob SquarePants.