ToyCyte: Toy Culture Collected

Even if your living room is made up of 5 Detolfs and a Karlstad, it doesn’t have to look like an IKEA catalog. Pop Cling aims to do for your house what Infectious [blogged] is doing for your car: that is, cover its plain and ordinary surfaces with vinyl slices of urban and pop art. Pop Cling is a Costa Mesa-based art reproduction company specializing in high-res printing on vinyl mediums to produce digitally-printed skateboards and artist-created wall graphics. They recently introduced “Foolproof” vinyl, which allows for an easier peel, stick and remove process–perfect for renters, transients and the mercurial.

Pop Cling is fairly new, but already sports an impressive roster of international artists including: Attaboy, Ben Collison, Daniel M. Davis, Dave Pressler, DGPH, Gavin Strange, Hellobard, Hicalorie, Jason Sho Green, Jeremyville, Jessica Lopez/Uncommon Industries, Josh Ellingson, Jon Burgerman, Junko Mizuno, Luke Feldman, Mitch O’Connell, Maytee Bringas, Sauerkids, Skwak and Zeptonn.

Prices on the pieces vary from $22.50 for something tiny to $100 for something sizable, with most of the work falling somewhere in the middle. Here are a few numbers to give you an idea:

• 10″ x 12″ edition of 75 for $25 (Gavin Strange)
• 20″ x 23″ edition of 40, various colors for $47.50 (Zeptonn)
• Multiple pieces, various sizes edition of 100 for $55 (Jon Burgerman)
• 23″ x 27″ edition of 75 for $85 (Hellobard)
• 21″ x 45″ edition of 100 for $99 (Attaboy)

I’m really happy with all of these “offshoots” from artists within the designer toy community. It’s great to see their work in other media and platforms–and also to be able to show it off and express it in different ways. Here at ToyCyte, we call this “Beyond Toys.”