ToyCyte: Toy Culture Collected

Los Angeles Gets First Crack at Mini King Kens at 24-Hour Department Store

Thursday, November 6, 2008

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Los Angeles Gets First Crack at Mini King Kens at 24-Hour Department Store

San Francisco’s own STRANGEco is heading south to Los Angeles for the weekend to participate in Paper Magazine’s 24 Hour Department Store. The list of participants (see flier below) includes a cool collection of artists, musicians, designers and brands, from Mr. Cartoon/Estevan Oriel, Undefeated, RVCA and Supreme to FUCT, Jeremy Scott, Citizen Citizen and The [...]

Mr. TTT Plush

Friday, September 12, 2008

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Long before vinyl and blind boxes, I collected plush dolls. Plushies will always be my first love. They have that built-in cute factor. Take a look at these new plush dolls from STRANGEco. Designed by Friends with You, Mr. TTT comes in two magical editions: Rainbow and Albino. They will retail for $28, and they’ll [...]

GizMag Issue 2 Free Downloadable Art Zine

Wednesday, August 27, 2008

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GizMag Issue 2 Free Downloadable Art Zine

GizMag is free weekly web magazine full of neat stuff. The second PDF issue of GizMag is 130 pages and 35MB. It Includes lots of pictures and interviews with Jon Burgerman, Jeremyville, FriendsWithYou, Julie West, eBoy and Nathan Jurevicius.

Monographic Books by eBoy, Dalek, Burgerman, Friends With You

Friday, August 22, 2008

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Peecol may be a polarizing figure in the designer toy community, but eBoy as an entity is fairly ubiquitous. If you’re a geek, you picked up their poster at MakerFaire. If you like beats, you picked up their cover for the latest issue of BPM. Now eBoy joins Dalek, Jon Burgerman and Friends With You [...]

The Characters Are Taking Over at Pictoplasma NYC

Wednesday, August 20, 2008

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On the weekend of September 5th, in every one’s favorite town, New York City, The Pictoplasma NYC event will take hold of the city (or rather the Skirball Center for the Performing Arts at New York University). The peeps of Pictoplasma claim that the “characters are taking over” and that “our visual culture is being [...]

Mr. TTT by Friend with You Plush at SDCC

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

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Mr. TTT by Friend with You Plush at SDCC

So you’re obsessed with toys. And you have to go to a birthday party for your nephew, friend’s rugrat, or just one of your preschool aged pals. For those under the age of, like four, a kaiju figure might scare the bejesus out of them, you might offend the parents with a smokin’ labbit, you [...]

The Opposite of Writer’s Block: Mike Leavitt’s Art Army

Monday, July 14, 2008

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“His own art wasn’t enough anymore. Art itself wasn’t enough anymore. But he knew it was the answer…he needed a little help.” You can hit the jump and watch a stop motion animation primer on The Art Army or you can first read through as I pick Mike Leavitt’s brain. Mike makes art. Interactive art. [...]

Attack of the Giant Mimobots

Friday, May 23, 2008

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For those of you who think size matters…mimoco presents 8GB MIMOBOT® flash drives. These designer data devices can hold nearly twenty thousand photos, two thousand songs, or twenty-five hundred minutes of video. 8GB MIMOBOTS® are available in styles by tokidoki, Friends With You, Sket One, Gloomy Bear and Happy Tree Friends. 8GB drives cost [...]