designer toys Archive
vinyl
Once upon a time, I was the Toy Maven, and all I wrote about was designer toys. These days, there are so many different things I want to
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Junko Mizuno‘s Kuro Megami is the 7th collectible produced under Kidrobot’s Black label, and it’s the first one I saw and thought: “Ohhhh, I get it now,” and
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Art
Frank Kozik is releasing a special hand-cast resin edition of his Heathrow the Hedgehog character…and it’s for charity. Although Kozik has dabbled in the charitable before, he’s not
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It’s been 5 years (seems like longer) since the release of Bob Dob‘s first vinyl art toy, Luey, and by the end of the month, his 2nd figure, “Will”
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Art
Mark Landwehr and Sven Waschk [coarse] return to Chicago’s Rotofugi Gallery (via Germany and Hong Kong) with their signature brand of lean, pristine toy art. Speaking in the lexicon of
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Elinor Portnoy is a Tel Aviv-based industrial designer who has given us what had previously been an absentee archetype in designer toy culture: the Jewish mother. Portnoy conceived
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On darker days, it’s good to have a Ryan Roberts. The Nashville-based designer and photographer (who brought us this 2012 toy a day calendar) is readying to deploy
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Medicom Toy in Japan has released a new limited edition VCD (vinyl collectible doll) of Andy Warhol. The figure is available in two versions out now (above) and
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I’m watching the news and Twitter and Instagram, and you’ve gotta hand it to me: I’ve got epic timing. Hurricane Sandy is blasting the East Coast, and meanwhile
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It’s finally time to release the rest of my exclusive Jeremycat Misfortune Cats. (You know those awesome little green GID kitties designed by Ferg?) What’s left of an initial
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