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
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
From cute toy cars to cute (and toylike) real cars! This batch of mid-century microcars is a follow-up to my 2010 award-winning post entitled How Cute Would I
Catherine Coan creates dioramas of suicides starring canary birds. The Canary Suicides are meditations on captivity, miniature embodiment, the pet as fetish and the relationship between death and
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
Bruce Bickford was born in 1947 in Seattle, WA. Some 43 years later and 36 miles away in Snoqualmie, David Lynch was filming Twin Peaks. But I’m getting ahead
I’m usually much too important of a person to wait in line for things, but upon the recommendation of sculptor/designer Chauskoskis and a peek through the window, I knew
This past weekend was San Francisco’s Gay Pride festival, but in the Bay Area, the pride and partying never stop. And why should it? Here’s another question (and
In an impressive followup to his 2011 Sucklord homage, the SUCKset, Phoenix-based artist, Gary Ham, has produced the KOZIKit, a wooden tribute to Frank Kozik. The hand-made KOZIKit