Tag Archive | "Jon Burgerman"
Letter Pressed Ensures Vinyl Toy Artists Leave a Lasting Impression
I've been expounding the virtues of Letter Pressed for a while. Their Artist Series reads like a Who's Who of the vinyl toy community: Joe Ledbetter, Jon Burgerman, Nathan Jurevicius, Bwana Spoons... In theory, every one of us should own something letterpressed. In practice, as with paint colors and Venetian blinds, you need to see a sample. I'm holding some such items. While I want my words to convey the elegance of the paper and the clean, vibrant impression of the art, you need to touch these for yourself. To that end, Letter Pressed's Mark Begley will provide one lucky reader with a pack of hand-numbered Cool It letterpressed cards by Le Merde. To win it...
Continue reading...Jon Burgerman Toy Signing at Forbidden Planet
Thursday, November 13, 2008
This Saturday, Jon Burgerman will return to Forbidden Planet for a toy signing. Last there for his Toy2R Egg Qee series, Jon will likely have on hand a couple cases of the Heroes of Burgertown. In addition, you should definitely pick up a copy of his Pens Are My Friends book, which contains wonderful pictures, [...]
Continue reading...Buy Jon Burgerman’s Anxiety
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
If you could get rich off anxiety, let’s just say I’d own a fleet of yachts with Chuck E. Cheese-style ballpits filled with Dunnys. Unfortunately, anxiety is no fast track to wealth, but perhaps, at least, a catalyst to creativity. As part of Jon Burgerman’s latest London solo show, Because I Can’t Sit Still, he [...]
Continue reading...Infectious Art to Rule Your Local Starbucks
Friday, October 31, 2008
ToyCyte’s local adhesive heroes, Infectious, are no longer catering to just cars. If you’re so green you don’t travel on four wheels, Infectious has you hooked up with their new line of sticky stuff for your laptops and walls. The Infectious line–which includes Dalek, Nico Berry, Junko Mizuno, Si Scott, Buff Monster, Emil Kozak, Jon [...]
Continue reading...Artoyz Presents Elements Alpha Series
Monday, October 20, 2008
ARTOYZ has dropped some preview pics of several of the characters comprising their forthcoming Elements Alpha Series first seen here. Elements Alpha builds on the original transparent Elements line by putting their exteriors in the hands of a global array of artists, including: Skwak, Koralie, Nathan Jurevicius, Koa, Jean Spezial, Bwana Spoons, Steph Cop, Mist, [...]
Continue reading...Heroes of Burgertown Kidrobot Munny Mashups
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Leave it to Jon Burgerman and Stu Witter to reverse-engineer the process, taking Jon's first series of figures from Kidrobot (last month's Heroes of Burgertown mini-figures) and morphing them into KR's trademark Dunny and Munny characters.
Continue reading...Jon Burgerman’s Heroes of Burgertown Ratios
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
This is the week of Heroes for sure. With Monday's premiere of the popular JJ Abrams TV show...this post concerns another cast of characters who are also Heroes: Jon Burgerman's Heroes of Burgertown. The Kidrobot-produced mini-figures are officially out tomorrow...Here are the ratios in text and pic form (enlarge photo for easier viewing).
Continue reading...Pizza Face Ponies and Poscas
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
These are definitely a couple posts that are ramping up to Kidrobot release of the Heroes of Burgertown mini-figures this week. Or, it’s just that Jon Burgerman is consistently and prolifically newsworthy. I mentioned his My Little Pony figure last week here, but courtesy of Jon’s blogpost, I now know that his pony’s name is [...]
Continue reading...Jon Burgerman Says Pens Are My Friends
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
From Hello Duudle to Gribba Grub, when Jon Burgerman does a book, he does it up in style. Now available from IdN (the folks who published Jeremyville’s Vinyl Will Kill and Sessions, and always pair their top notch tomes with awesome extras) is Jon’s epic doodletacular Pens Are My Friends. For the first time ever [...]
Continue reading...MixtART Group Show: Urban Art For Your Mobile Phone
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
This Saturday, San Francisco’s Giant Robot hosted an art exhibition spanning the genres of illustration, character design, street art, tattoo art, urban vinyl and indie comics sponsored by Hands-On Mobile. Some of the artists who showed work as part of the new mixtART service include: Alex Pardee, Buff Monster, Jon Burgerman, Patrick Ma, Patricio Oliver, [...]
Continue reading...Junko Mizuno and Jon Burgerman for My Little Pony
Thursday, September 18, 2008
They say history repeats itself. If so, that’s a lucky break for Give Kids The World Village, the charity recipient of the My Little Pony Project. Junko Mizuno’s customized MLP (above) is now part of the MLP Project’s gallery, and if I was a betting man, I’d bet on her horse to reprise the 2005 [...]
Continue reading...Burgerman to Noferin at mixtART GRSF Group Show
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Remember mixtART [blogged], the service designed to bring urban art to your mobile phones? Not content to just wallpaper your cell phone in pixels, they’re bringing actual, non-virtual art to the walls of San Francisco’s Giant Robot. In conjunction with Hands-On Mobile, Giant Robot presents a show including work (and some appearances by) Blinky, Buff [...]
Continue reading...Metal For Monsters Launch Date
Thursday, September 11, 2008
Vivian of Blend Creations just sent word that the Metal For Monsters project has an official launch date: October 1st. Since my last post, they’ve added two of their own designs to the already stellar roster of S.britt, Stefan G. Bucher, Jon Burgerman, Anna Chambers, Justin Hillgrove, Adam Koford, John Martz, Jay Stephens and Brian Taylor. Starting [...]
Continue reading...Heroes of Burgertown Pre-order
Monday, September 8, 2008
The first picture of the actual standard figures from Jon Burgerman’s Heroes of Burgertown mini-figure series from Kidrobot was dropped on Jon’s website this weekend. He is currently taking pre-orders here. Each toy comes blind boxed, with additional stickers and the box can be signed upon request. There are 16 different characters to collect and [...]
Continue reading...GizMag Issue 2 Free Downloadable Art Zine
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
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.
Continue reading...Monographic Books by eBoy, Dalek, Burgerman, Friends With You
Friday, August 22, 2008
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 [...]
Continue reading...Play Imaginative’s Dooperdoo T-shirts
Friday, August 15, 2008
Sunny posted news of Dooperdoo in June, and finally, Play Imaginative’s t-shirt shop is open for business. Dooperdoo is offering mens and womens shirts and jackets by Cupco, Devilrobots, Happy Tree Friends, Jon Burgerman, KOA, Shin Tanaka, Tik Ka, TADO and Kenny B. They haven’t spared the flourishes, and each item includes fine details like [...]
Continue reading...Metal For Monsters
Thursday, August 14, 2008
Vivian Cheng and Eric Jean-Louis (Blend Creations) are married designers who make necklaces. The story goes that one day they were struggling to reconcile their family’s own relative privilege with the fate of children in war-torn countries. Without money, power or the ability to heal the wounded, what can we do? It’s a question I’ve [...]
Continue reading...Happy Birthday, Jon Burgerman!
Friday, August 8, 2008
Happy Birthday to the busiest dude in doodles, Jon Burgerman. According to the old Pixelsurgeon page, his age is: “Feel 41, look 15.” Jon’s colorful characters have appeared in diverse arenas from the “high art” world of international museums to the “low-brow” world of collectible toys. He has designed seemingly no fewer than 100 [...]
Continue reading...Jon Burgerman’s Anserine Apparitions Show
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Not only does the prolific Jon Burgerman keep me busy, but he keeps me smart. I had to use both Wikipedia and the dictionary to translate the info for his latest show. Entitled Anserine Apparitions, this exciting exhibition in Hamburg, Germany “offers the viewer the chance to devise and enjoy their own modern day pareidolia [...]
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Wednesday, November 26, 2008
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