Puck, Okedoki‘s vinyl toy pug dog, is admittedly an unlikely platform for customization, but once again (as in Travis Louie’s Stan Skelves, Yosiell Lorenzo’s Poison Sweets and Jon Knox’s Codys), the artists responsible
I’ve said it before with Travis Louie’s hand-painted Stan Skelves and Yosiell Lorenzo’s hand-painted Poison Sweets: my favorite “customized toys,” are the one-off paint jobs from the hands
Uglydolls always make for a happy Comic-Con experience. In addition to bountiful plush, affordable tin toys and new BLOX vinyl figures in the Uglydolls area, there was a small
Gary Ham proves himself a real renaissance man with Comic-Con 2012 releases of Wooper Looper in many mediums. One year ago at Comic-Con, Ham displayed the Wooper Looper prototype, and I made it
Mikie “Zombiemonkie” Graham is a child of the 80s, and as such, he can’t so much as look at Emilio Garcia‘s Jumping Brain figure without hearing the classic 1987
Something magical happens when an artist “customizes” a vinyl production toy that he/she designed. For the artist, it’s a chance to experiment while still realizing a complete idea: Style
Tokyo-based T9G and Portland-based Bwana Spoons recently opened a show of customized and collaborative vinyl toy art at LA’s Toy Art Gallery. I enjoy each artist’s work independently,
Way back in 2008, before I became increasingly (2010) jaded (2012) on the direction of custom/DIY vinyl toys, I had an unlikely love affair with a series of
