Five years after Electrolux made arty vacuums with plastic sea debris, a Chinese performance artist vacuumed the air in Beijing…and made a brick. Armed with a 1,000-watt vacuum cleaner, the artist
Well it’s no lie that Pinocchio is popular fodder for popjects! Let’s talk about three clever designers who found a fun function for a nose that grows. Pinocchio
Sometimes I fall prey to romanticizing the anonymous precision of factory-made multiples. It takes only a reporter going undercover at Foxconn or photos from Michael Wolf’s The Real Toy
I bet you didn’t know there was going to be a Part 2 (neither did I). Earlier this month, French artist, SKWAK, revealed the debut of his fashion brand,
This week my friend, French artist, and fellow Maniac, SKWAK, took one step closer to blurring the distinction between the Maniac World and the Real World. Partnering with Chinese
Today’s convergence presents itself in the form of these two gooey Chinese knockoffs. Up top, we’ve got everybody’s favorite MIGHTY MUTANT POWER TURTLES. They’re not teenage, but the
Sometimes you just need a hand! Right now, I’m travelling a bit, and so I can’t quite fulfill my duty of delivering you the daily dose of procrastination design
Here’s a peek inside the Zhejiang province, China-based Jiamei Plastic Toy Company. They produce plastic sex dolls at an average price of ~$16 USD and have done so for
Talk about eco-friendly. This motorcycle made of lobster parts really puts your Prius to shame, huh? The lobsterrific motorcycles were created by Taiwanese food carving artist, Huang Mingbo, at
This morning, pictures of an unreleased KAWS toy began appearing online. I traced the images to a site called Labiology.com, which almost exclusively sells “replicas” of KAWS toys and paintings.