custom toys Archive
vinyl
This is the antidote to today’s arid array of art toys. It’s the panacea for prosaic plastic. The elixir vitae for vapid vinyl. The therapeutic treatment for tedious toys! And now
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action figures
Meet The Sheepdogs, a hirsute rock-n-roll band from Canada. In 2011, they won a contest that catapulted them from Saskatoon to the cover of Rolling Stone. Meet The Sheepdogs
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wood
Speaking of Pepe Hiller and wood toys from Europe, check out these great wooden toy cars. After having kids, Italian designer Matteo Ragni became a crusader against ugly and
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vinyl
Japanese toymakers T9G always put on an interesting show. They just closed up Nest, a 2-week toy art and customized sofubi exhibition at Minority Rev in Hirao. The
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wood
Blamo Toys opened their fourth annual custom toy show this past weekend at Toy Art Gallery in LA. The invitational, billed as a “HUG-stravaganza,” had a roster of over
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Art
I don’t post a lot of custom toys around here, but I’m always charmed by Stor Dubiné‘s Munny Legends. The Berlin-based artist recently added new tribute toys to his
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vintage
Little Miss No Name was a doll designed by Deet D’Andrade (who also designed Blythe) and released by Hasbro in 1965. The doll wore a burlap sac of a
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Art
Ian Ziobrowski is a toy customizer and cannabis advocate. (Talk about marginalized niche cultures!) While the artist keeps a relatively low profile, pot plays a prominent part in
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Art
I’ve been hanging onto this image for a while, biding my time for just the right moment. That moment is now. Today, there shall be a theme, and
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vinyl
Puck, Okedoki‘s vinyl toy pug dog, is admittedly an unlikely platform for customization, but once again (as in Travis Louie’s Stan Skelves, Yosiell Lorenzo’s Poison Sweets and Jon Knox’s Codys), the artists responsible
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