Having last captured my heart with an Overly Literal Cat Valentine, Vancouver-based artist Hine Mizushima gives me a smile again with this whimsical Self-extinguishing Firebug. Mizushima needle-felted the creature
Meet The Sheepdogs, a hirsute rock-n-roll band from Canada. In 2011, they won a contest that catapulted them from Saskatoon to the cover of Rolling Stone. Meet The Sheepdogs
Toronto-based artist Amy Swartz combines taxidermy insects and plastic toy parts in an amazing ongoing series called Pest. Her work explores the idea of obsession “not only in the
Okedoki has revealed her next character sculpture: Stevie, the Wonder Mouse. The beleaguered rodent follows her much-loved Benny the Dreamer figure, and the eyes are the window to
I’m starting to sound like a broken record, but I’ve yet to be proven wrong. When it comes to customizing toys, the artists responsible for creating the original
These two modern chairs (above) were designed with recession-proof secrets. They offer a potential solution to a perennial problem: Has this ever happened to you? As you head
Canadian artist, Sara Cwynar last appeared on this blog for teasing the truth out of Advil packaging. For her latest project, Cwynar arranged a decade of personal accumulations into a
Toronto-based “photo-object” artist Alan Belcher’s latest work turns Apple’s JPEG icon into an edition of ceramic tiles. Belcher writes: The ephemeral nature of the universal jpeg has been addressed, and the default
According to Wikipedia: “The pug is a toy dog with a wrinkly, short-muzzled face, and curled tail.” Today, Okedoki and VTSS present a new collectible double entendre: Puck is a toy dog because