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
In the solar system of designer toys, I’ve just become aware of a neighboring planet: modern dollhouses. The designer dollhouse planet is populated by meticulous, artsy, crafty collectors–just
Sarah Illenberger is a Munich-born, Berlin-based visual communicator. Her work consistently surprises me and makes me smile. She can take two everyday objects (cabbage + dress; apple +
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
Swiss-born, Berlin-based artist, Julian Charrière has collaborated with Julius von Bismarck on Some Pigeons are More Equal than Others. The project is about dying 35 pigeon in the city of
As New York readies itself for KAWS overexposure, here’s an interesting afterthought on something Mr. Brian Donnelly didn’t want us to see–across the Atlantic Ocean in Berlin. Back
I like this wee willy whimsical installation by Hamburg-based Turkish artist Sakir Gökçebag. It’s further proof that an artist’s message can be very clear (or somewhat yellow) even when stripped
Matthias Seifarth is a freelance illustrator from Hamburg, Germany. He describes his art partnership with writer, Pessi Schmitt, as follows: “We are a boy and a girl who most of
Viewing modern toy art in a museum/fine art gallery is an amazing experience. As LA’s Toy Art Gallery celebrates the 1st anniversary of its Melrose Ave showroom, and major
If you happened to hit up Toykio in Dusseldorf, Germany today for the special Selim Varol Collection x coarse toys Blush Paw release, you’d have left empty handed, but not
