This is awesome. Mark Nagata got together with some USA-based “soap artisans” and created KAIJU SOAP. According to Mark’s message, he’s been contemplating kaiju soap for about for
Donta Santistevan is a San Francisco-based artist and illustrator. Locals may know him from working at the Kidrobot store and drawing at Sketch Tuesdays. It was during the latter
Toy Art Gallery in LA presents its biggest show yet. Tomorrow night, the Melrose Avenue showroom will be taken over by TAG’s life-size fiberglass editions. Gino Joukar, mega-collector
Hipsters never get old! (Actually, they do.) From Hipster Animals on T-shirts to hipster humans as action figures, the media’s favorite subculture stereotype is still going strong (for
The increasingly “cloud-based” nature of collecting is a trend I’ve been following, and I’m not alone. Netherlands-based designer Lucas Maassen and Raw Color question the meaning of “ownership” in the
It appears that I’ve gotten a little bit behind in posting the extended online versions of my Toys by Design column interviews! These interviews appear as page-long featurettes
Italian artist Francesco de Molfetta has created a new life-size fiberglass edition of his Michelangelo sculpture. The multiple was made in collaboration with LA’s Toy Art Gallery, where you
Japanese skateboard sculptor/recycler, Haroshi, (previously here and here) opens a new show at New York’s Jonathan LeVine Gallery next weekend on Saturday, January 12th. The exhibition will include
Pulp Fiction taught non-Europeans that Parisians call their quarter-pounders “royales with cheese.” Maybe the difference in nom nom nomenclature isn’t just about the metric system. And maybe there’s
If you thought Maurizio Galante’s Cactus Couch contained mixed messages, feast your cycloptic eye on this curio cabinet. Maurizio Galante and Tal Lancman work together as INTERWARE, a “society for