Tag: designer toys

I did not see this one coming: Ron English and Chris Brown are collaborating on a line of vinyls to be known as Dum English toys. The news is

November 5th marked the 6th and biggest year of DesignerCon, the world’s premier designer toy (and related ephemera) extravaganza. For 7 hours, artists and toy collectors converged on

The same day I drove south in my car full of hedgehogs destined for Comic-Con, High Snobiety posted this epic KAWS collection. What is believed to be the

It took eight years and a circuitous path for Perks and Mini‘s bizarre BUNYIP toy to find its way into my collection, and it’s here to stay. Before launching

To name-check a so-wrong-it’s-right song title from 80s Norwegian synth-pop band, A-HA, Clay “Ferg” Ferguson is “Living a Boy’s Adventure Tale”. He owns a home in Austin’s Hyde

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.

Wow look at this: an actual art toy in 2011! Once upon a time, people who were called artists painted unique and interesting characters on flat surfaces. After

There is a full set of Brendan Monroe‘s very hard-to-find Sours on eBay right now. Monroe now lives in Sweden, and to my knowledge, this is his only

I missed this terrific customized Max Toy Co mini Eyezon by Daniel Goffin when it came out a couple weeks ago, but better late than never, right? The

I met Mark Landwehr at SDCC ’10. A few months later, I approached the busy German-born, Hong Kong-based toy designer about doing an interview for Design Bureau. We