This website is about any and everything that sparks the creative genius in all of us. By profession I am a Graphic Designer, and enjoy all aspects of design. From traditional to urban from resin to vinyl, these are all great mediums and deserve to be explored. On top of that everything from music to movies from guns to graffiti.
Cotton Candy Machine’sHoliday Giclee Show Extraordinaire opens this evening in Brooklyn and the prints are now available for purchase online! Circus Posterus artist Travis Louie has a pair of beautiful giclees on exhibit: "Claire and Her Forest Schnook" (17” x 24”, ed. of 20) and "The General" (8.5” x 11” ed. of 45).
Each comes signed/numbered and retail for $200 and $40, respectively. Paul Pope, Esao Andrews, Jeremy Hush and Tara McPherson are also exhibiting. Opening reception is from 7pm to 11pm tonight (Dec. 2nd) and show’s on till the end of the month. See all the 2D wonderfulness HERE!
From artist Vahid Musah emerges a new, New York based, designer toy company called 'Tribaltoy' who specializes in vinyl toys and illustrations based on African sculptures and art. Their first official release is of a really stylized figure named "Baako" who currently comes in one size - a nice 7.5" tall, and each one incorporates a body color pattern based on a unique illustration. The figure is stylistic, simple and has three points of articulation (Head, Arms, Legs) designed around a few predetermined poses. The original artwork appears on the packaging... making this a really unique figure! This particular "Red" version is limited to 250 pieces worldwide and is retailing for only $40... a great deal if you ask me! It can be picked up HERE, and while you are there check out some of the other products that will hopefully be releasing soon!
Info from the very great, and amazing DKE Toys. For Wholesale Inquiries about this awesome product please contact www.dketoys.com.
And now for something a little different... but AWESOME! Artist Tomoo Yamaji aka HENGE from Japan has just contacted us about his amazing mech like transforming made to order designer robots... and how slick do these look?!?!?!?! According to Tomoo, every piece of his artworks transforms into multiple forms without removing any parts like TRANSFORMERS toy products... making them both art and toy, and as you can tell from the display above, you can see why! The ones on display are titled "h040101 Fast Mercy (Black/Gold)" and "h040102 Fast Mercy (Black/Silver)" and these figures are around 10" tall, are made from polyurethane resin, and retail for around $385 a piece.
As you can see in the above video, this thing transforms seamlessly with only a few simple steps, and one thing to note is the wall installation... really cool looking static install! I think these figures are super stylized, and using the human form as the base torso makes it that much more interesting... too cool! For more info on HENGE and his rad products, visit his online shop HERE.
Alright folks, so MAD just announced via his Twitter feed that he is having a pretty awesome sale right now via his online store HERE where for the next 48 hours if you order anything over $15, you get a FREE sealed blind-boxed toy... a rad deal! Oh, and his store is stocked full of awesome products, so hitting that $15 mark should be pretty simple to do :-) So head on over HERE now and pull the trigger, and get a free toy in doing so!
This past Thursday, December 1st at Kidrobot's London store was the opening of "Codename Babushka" which was curated by the folks over at Flatties... and just like the name describes they rounded up 75 Russian Dolls all of which were customized by a seriously impressive line-up of artists which included: A Little Stranger, alto, Creature Kebab, Fadeworks, Ian Stevenson, Matt JOnes, Mr Mead, Phil Corbett, Scott Rayfield, Sichi, Sneaky Raccoon, RunDMB, TipToe Collective, TMH, Triclops Studio... and as you can see from the above photo, these turned out great! Oh, and obviously we were not out there to cover the event, so our pal Rich K. aka PodgyPanda snapped all the photos that you see after the jump... thanks Rich!
New Zealand based artist Paul Shih is at it once again, and just like every Christmas he always releases something special, with extra goodies! Now for for 2011, he's releasing a X’mas edition JB resin toy + print package... just look at how adorable she is... and this release is going to be limited to just 5 sets, and the lucky five will also get a free gift from Paul!
Now... what is that gift you may ask, well peep the video above, and you will kinda get the idea as Paul is going to customize those creepy Santa wind up toys... cool! The Christmas edition JB set will be available on Monday December 5th HEREfor $55 each! There will be an order form up at 12 noon PST where the first 5 orders will be notified for qualification! Fix your clock, set your alarm & good luck! :-)
The great folks over at Plastic Culture just finished other first Collectors Showcase, called "My New Obsession" featuring the all designer toys collection from top collectors in Indonesia. Just to name a few, they are: Sani Prawira, Roy Hendarto, Antonius Budi, Edi Irawan, and Bowo Suhardjo. "My New Obsession: Collectors Showcase" was held at The Other Culture from November 18th to 30th where they had a mini closing party. The entire premious behind this is that collectors brought out their collections... and displayed them in a gallery setting for all to see and admire... a really great way to expose others to different brands and styles! One of the center pieces of this collection is of course, the Dunny collection from Sani Prawira and Joe Ledbetter collection of Edi Irawan. Their collections alone almost filled out the entire space... there weer a ton of photos taken from this event, all of which can be seen HERE, enjoy :-)
Christmas is just around the corner... and the great folks over at Noferin are helping all of us out by releasing some awesome new products that should help take that strain off some holiday shopping, and how sweet these little Glass Pecanpals made by Tynies are! Up for grabs right now HERE are 50 of each colored Pecanpals, available as a signed AP (artist proof). They also have 20 of each Glow In The Dark Pecanpals, available as a signed AP. Along with these cute little trinkets, there is also a ton of other stuff available, so be sure to check out their online store HERE.
Starting on Monday the 5th of December UK based artist Map-Map will be dropping the last mini set of custom Dunny's for 2011 in his online store HERE... and if you recall any of his previous releases, they go quick so you best be on the ball! You will have you chance at a whole slew of different designs including "Earlrick", "Wook", "Goostrum", "Tani", and "Hoon"... all of which have some serious personality! Be sure to visit his online store HERE, and good luck if your trying to grab one.
I am stoked beyond reasonable comprehension to tell you all about this awesome sale dubbed "I Am Broke" that is happening starting right now December 2nd, 2011 and only running until December 4th, 2011. Now how does this work you may be wondering... visit http://www.iambrokesale.com right now and check out all the special offers that each and every Artist, Band and Company is offering up... and once you see one that strikes your fancy, visit their online store and use the coupon code iambroke, which by the way works on every site that is in cahoots with this promotion... easy enough right?!?! SpankyStokes.com is part of this whole deal and if you enter that code in our online store you will get 25% off your entire order... so you can save on some seriously cool items!
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