STRANGEco Archive
vinyl
The second I saw Complex’s 50 Best Designer Toys List, I inhaled and braced for backlash. The complaints came swiftly: Artists who got left out. Toys that didn’t deserve
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tech toys
Right now, if you live in San Francisco, New York, Chicago or London, there are designer toys in your midst. They’re all around you in fact, but in
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sculpture
Occasionally it seems like the best artists show in LA, but then I’d rather hop a bridge to San Francisco and be with beards in a converted Busvans
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vinyl
Um, how rad is this? Here’s how it happened. Jermaine Rogers‘ Comic-Con booth contained a single case bearing the remaining Specimen and Squire vinyls produced by STRANGEco in the
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vinyl
It’s been almost two months since San Diego Comic-Con 2010, and my love affair with Ron English‘s Telegrinnies is still going strong. In fact, I’ve set plans in
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vinyl
Last year, Brian Flynn and I got to talking about kaiju toys. It seemed no matter what people (including me) wrote about Super7’s products, we were never quite on
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vinyl
The designer toy scene was born in the mid-late 1990s in Hong Kong (Michael Lau), Japan (Bounty Hunter), the UK (James Jarvis) and the USA (Kaws). A culture
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vinyl
Vinyl Toy Network Winter 2008 was a lot of fun and a great opportunity to chat with artists, toy companies, shops, fans and collectors. People were lined up
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vinyl
Every year, fanboys and fangirls of varying stripes descend on San Diego for Comic-Con. Although the event has extensive programming, there’s one activity that unites the collectors with
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