Jennybird Alcantara is a San Francisco-based painter and maker of art dolls. She is inspired by fairytales and fables, mythology, nature and freaks of nature, melancholy and classical music,
I’m starting to sound like a broken record, but I’ve yet to be proven wrong. When it comes to customizing toys, the artists responsible for creating the original
There are still amazingly inspired ideas being turned into toy art, but you have to look outside the usual companies and cities to find them. Thanks to a
Julia Chiang is a Brooklyn-based artist previously written up here for her porcelain apples. The apples were intended as symbols of desire, as well as icons of the biggest
Juliet Ames is a Baltimore-based crafter who has been breaking plates and turning the ‘wreckage’ into art since 2006. China Knuckles, which combine the implied violence of brass knuckles
Art school is hardly the school of hard knocks, but it’s not exactly a cakewalk for students matriculating into today’s workforce either. Brutherford Industries‘ latest popject is a
The problem with memes is that they’re not tangible. Memes are deployed across the Internet, and for short, powerful surges of time, they have lives of their own.
Remember Diddo Velema’s designer gas masks? The Dutch designer returns with a new rumination on the culture of consumption. He calls it The Cure for Greed: What exactly
If you got a kick out of Bughouse’s Future Fossils collection of concrete cameras, joysticks and turntables, soak in these concrete (non-rubber) duckies. The quirky quackers act as swag
Viewing modern toy art in a museum/fine art gallery is an amazing experience. As LA’s Toy Art Gallery celebrates the 1st anniversary of its Melrose Ave showroom, and major