The BOE wanted me to make a button design based on the following:

In case you don’t know, like I didn’t, that’s what karasumi (the Japanese delicacy, mullet roe) looks like. OK! So, here was my quick, end of the day attempt to cute-ify the thing:

the low low low-res version…

I wanted to give my roe some awesome 80’s hair… *snigger*… but figured the joke would be lost in translation, so opted for generically tubular and happy. Anway, my Japanese colleagues seemed to find the design as it was acceptable, and thus it shall be turned into buttons to adorn the collars of the few and proud Japanese students who are part of the Karasumi group. Yatta!