If Simon Monk can paint superheroes in bags, Chris Barker can do bad guys on blister cards. Barker’s 21st Century Fake Toys tumblr is a dossier of dolls scarier than Chuckie. Seriously. This Kellyanne
All this talk about drones and no action, right? (Just kidding!) Well, last year Barcelona-based designer Axel Brechensbauer revealed this whimsical study for a proposed U.S. peace drone,
I love it when classy news sites weigh in on collectible controversies! Recently, there was an uproar over Mattel’s Barbie Dolls of the World collection, specifically Mexico Barbie. Despite being
Super collector Selim Varol just revealed a new commission in the form of this taxidermy-style trophy. The wall-mounted plaque features the hyperrealistic head of Mr. Brainwash…and a nameplate
With this week’s Pope Mania, we take a trip back to 2011 for Miriam Jonas’ Polka Popes. Jonas, a Berlin-based artist, sculpted portraits of fictitious popes using colorful
A royally sad day for European toy collectors and American anglophiles. Kidrobot has announced the closure of its London store: Yes, unfortunately, it really is true: Our Earlham Street
!!!UPDATE!!! 15 minutes ago, KAWS posted the ‘notorious’ coffin image to his Instagram account, along with an announcement definitively ending the OriginalFake brand. I’m not going to transcribe
Hugo Orlandini is a Cuban-born, Barcelona-based, contemporary artist whose work often plays with politics. Like me, and probably some of you reading this, Orlandi thinks of art as having
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
