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Brooklyn-based artist, Aya Kakeda has been very busy. Those of you who collect toys may recognize Kakeda’s designs from Kidrobot’s Dunny 2010, Series 5, Endangered and Fatales ranges.
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art multiples
SoHo-based GREY AREA exist in the “undefined space between art and design where art is made functional and the functional is made art.” [Me too!] Co-founder Kyle DeWoody recently
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vinyl
Selim Varol‘s epic collection of art and toys [previously] opened this past weekend at the Me Collectors Room in Berlin. The exhibition includes a total of 3,000 works centered
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paintings
To honor the one-year anniversary of the tragic earthquake and tsunami in Japan, Jeremy Brautman (age 35) and Super Cooper Berella (age 12) curated a kidcentric, collaborative art show at Kokoro Studio in San
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photography
Like the Astroboy above (on his way to Berlin for Selim Varol’s massive toy art exhibit) this week’s Instagram Roundup is gigantic. Expect to see vinyl, plush, resin
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Cats
There is really only one way to react to seeing this cat, and it’s exactly like David After Dentist: Is this real life??? I’d like to thank FriendsWithYou
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vinyl
This is my 8th week curating a niche-specific Instagram Roundup, and it’s the biggest one yet. (You people make awesome stuff, and take excellent photos.) Today, we find
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Toys
Cats and dogs are different. Cats are sophisticated aesthetes who take photographs and paint pictures, while dogs run along the shoreline chasing filthy plush toys. Yet, both felines
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Pop CULTure
In January of 2009, Sasha Obama, clipped a small blue Uglydoll to her school backpack and triggered a mediastorm of hype. Pictures of the President’s daughter and her
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plush
It fills me with joy when artists turn their creative energies toward political change. Earlier this month, we saw Clutter point their busts in disgust toward conservative politicians’
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