Category: Toys

[Disclaimer: This is a blog about toys. This post in no way seeks to make light of the devastating situation in Japan. For current information on the Sendai

I definitely recognize the appeal of wanting to show off when a big-time celebrity is spotted sporting your company’s merchandise. But is Joe Jonas (and for that matter,

Making toys takes money. In general, money is something that creative people don’t tend to have. Enter Kickstarter: the “largest funding platform for creative projects in the world”.

This morning I joined my friend, Dustin Cantrell, for a bit of art-keology in his San Francisco studio. Dustin really digs dinosaurs. Of the species, the club-tailed ankylosaur is

These whimsical wooden “idea toys” go with yesterday’s post about Sozi by Rilla Alexander. A pile of them were installed underneath the life-sized Sozi at Colette. Based on

Thanks to a tweet from TADO, I find myself newly acquainted with Sozi and other work by Australian-born, Berlin-based designer, illustrator and storyteller Rilla Alexander. This is such

How serendipitous that news of Coarse Toys‘ latest release hit my inbox the same day that my interview with Mark Landwehr for Design Bureau magazine hit my mailbox?

Don’t click your back button; you’re still on the right blog. While I wouldn’t ordinarily post something about the “upwardly mobile, dolls of color” series known as BRATZ,

The first iteration of the eagerly anticipated Brandt Peters x Ferg Trouble Boys collaborative Squadt [Scram / no.45] was called the Got Away Clean variant, which is apropos

An interesting conversation popped up over the last several days on the Skullbrain forum. The crux of the debate centered on Dril One‘s choice to customize a Secret