Toy Art Gallery in LA presents its biggest show yet. Tomorrow night, the Melrose Avenue showroom will be taken over by TAG’s life-size fiberglass editions. Gino Joukar, mega-collector
Good manners got an unlikely ally today when David Choe came out in support of…MAIL. The letter etiquette lesson, which he posted to Instagram, begins: A word or
Designers can do so much with vibrant colors and geometric shapes. UK-based toy designer Tesselate continues what Genis Carreras started in the previous post with a colorful and shapely
For those of us with thirsty minds and discerning eyes, Genís Carreras has distilled a fresh batch of Philographics! In his second installment of Philographics (see the initial offerings here),
Hipsters never get old! (Actually, they do.) From Hipster Animals on T-shirts to hipster humans as action figures, the media’s favorite subculture stereotype is still going strong (for
Frumpy Chairs are one-of-a-kind plastic seats designed by Canada-born RISD senior, Jamie Wolfond. Through an experimental process, Wolfond melds the polarized worlds of ‘hand-crafted’ and ‘plastic-molded’ to form unique and
The increasingly “cloud-based” nature of collecting is a trend I’ve been following, and I’m not alone. Netherlands-based designer Lucas Maassen and Raw Color question the meaning of “ownership” in the
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
Speaking of Pepe Hiller and wood toys from Europe, check out these great wooden toy cars. After having kids, Italian designer Matteo Ragni became a crusader against ugly and
It appears that I’ve gotten a little bit behind in posting the extended online versions of my Toys by Design column interviews! These interviews appear as page-long featurettes