There’s so much talk about Fifty Shades of Grey, I figured I’d capitalize on current events with a dual-duty post on two sexy monotone toy releases this week.
Wilfrid Wood was hip to David Choe before his Facebook millions. The new David Bowie video caused me to revisit Wood’s Bowie bust (above), and I thought it was time my
Neko Oba-san (Aunt Cat) is the newest creepy sofubi character toy from Yukinori Dehara. I don’t know what inspired this piece, but let’s pretend the cast of the
!!!UPDATE!!! 15 minutes ago, KAWS posted the ‘notorious’ coffin image to his Instagram account, along with an announcement definitively ending the OriginalFake brand. I’m not going to transcribe
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
This is awesome. Mark Nagata got together with some USA-based “soap artisans” and created KAIJU SOAP. According to Mark’s message, he’s been contemplating kaiju soap for about for
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
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
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
