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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...MCA Megabox Qees Now Available
Thursday, September 25, 2008
I’m stoked that it’s becoming easier to find Toy2r’s Qee these days. After a bunch of blogging about MCA’s Hong Kong Megabox show and tribute Qee, the figures are now available via MCA’s webstore. You can order a 3.5-inch MegaBoxee Qee ($15 shipped in the US) or a 1.5-inch MegaBoxee Qee mobile phone strap [...]
Continue reading...MCA MegaBox Qee and Customs
Monday, September 8, 2008
MCA is back from a whirlwind event at MegaBox in Hong Kong. The show saw the painting of 90 customs over a period of two days, the release of Simian Nation and an exclusive limited edition MegaBoxee Qee. Customers with MegaBox purchases of HK$800 or more (with two printed receipts) are eligible for either a [...]
Continue reading...Sharky Customs Gallery
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Check out the nearly 60 Sharky customs including art by Brent Nolasco, Duncan Poon, KaNo, Banana Virus, Jeremiah Ketner, DrilOne, NEMO, Mr. Shane Jessup, Touma, MCA, Phu!, Heidi Kenney, Marka27, Jesse Hernandez, Shawnimals, Huck Gee, Annie Owens, Betso...
Continue reading...MCA x Toy2R Simian Nation
Thursday, August 28, 2008
A couple of us were recently musing on the Toy2R forums that Toy2R should put out more books. Message received. Toy2R is releasing this Artist Collection Book 01 starring MCA of Evil Design. The full-color soft cover book is 96 pages. It’s being printed in an edition of 1000 and will be available in September [...]
Continue reading...MCA x Toy2R Show in Hong Kong
Thursday, August 14, 2008
Good news for MCA and Qee fans in the Hong Kong area. He’ll be doing a show with Toy2R at the end of August. He’s doing up a 60-inch Elder Ape Qee (above right) in a red and yellow colorway for the event. There’s also a 36-inch Elder Ape (above left). I always dig [...]
Continue reading...More MCA Evil Design x Mishka NYC Exclusive Shirts
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Following his last successful range of online exclusive t-shirts for Mishka, MCA is back with two more. First up, is Mr. T-Shka, in which MCA has married Mr. T into one of his Mishka Bears. The shirt is available in Black & White with only 20 pieces available per color. The second shirt is called [...]
Continue reading...Peat Wollaeger’s Luchador Collabo Masks Head Down Under
Thursday, July 31, 2008
If you played the Kevin Bacon game with designer toys you might link Mexican wrestling masks to Jack Black via his 2006 film (was it that long ago?) Nacho Libre and the just re-spied at SDCC 08 Tenacious D figures. But here’s another point of reference and a cool, unusual DIY collab platform: Stencil artist, [...]
Continue reading...Toy2R’s Bart Simpson Customized Qee Auction for Red Cross
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Now back from a globe-trotting exhibition, The wait is over. Toy2R has unveiled most of the 10-inch Bart Simpson Qee customs on the Toy2R forums. But if you’ve got ADD, anticipatory anxiety, high blood pressure, something in the oven or a slow Internet connection, you’ll feel like you’re still waiting (for the pages to load; [...]
Continue reading...MCA Evil Design x Mishka NYC Exclusive Shirts
Friday, July 18, 2008
MCA’s been posting loads of vintage t-shirt photos from his vaults (usually modeled by sexy ladies) on his Flickr page lately, but today he dropped 3 brand new shirts (in two colorways). The MCA Evil Design x Mishka shirts are exclusives to Mishka’s webshop, and include: Evil Ape Roll, where MCA marries his Evil Ape to [...]
Continue reading...Toy2R DIY 10-inch Bart Simpson Qee Auction
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
The 10” DIY Qee Bart Simpson Project has just completed the Art Exhibition World Wide Tour. Now is your chance to own these one-of-a-kind original Bart Simpson Qee. Toy2R will be holding the 10” DIY Qee Bart Simpson Auction on the Toy2R Forum featuring more than 90 Customized 10″ DIY Bart Simpson Qee by artists [...]
Continue reading...Sneak Peeks at Plushforms from kaNO and Sketchbot
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
The Rotofugi Plushform exhibit and launch party is just over a week away and I’ve been waiting for the leaks and peeks. On Monday, KaNO showed his custom Plushform, blogging that “plush is kind of hard to paint on, but once you get cracking it gets easier.” Taking a cue from KaNO, Sketchbot posted [...]
Continue reading...Plushform Gallery Show on June 27th
Thursday, June 5, 2008
Where do you hope to be on June 27th? I know where I will wish I was going to be, in Chicago Illinois at the Rotofugi Designer Toy Store and Gallery. Starting at six pm Rotofugi will go custom crazy with the much anticipated launch of the Plushform, the “totally customizable Designer Stuffed Toy” created [...]
Continue reading...EvilDesign Toy Mashups
Thursday, June 5, 2008
Spied on MCA’s Flickr photostream…a series of toy photos for an upcoming project. Lets face it, we all like looking at toys. That’s why we buy them and put them in our cubes, homes and heck these days they’re in museums and on the auction block. If you enjoy the work of Brian McCarty [...]
Continue reading...PT. 2: Art and Artifice: Examining Copyright: Roundtable Discussion
Thursday, May 15, 2008
Without images, the Blogosphere would be an awfully boring place. But where do the images come from? Mostly, bloggers (guilty as charged) download graphics from other peoples’ sites or link to them. News moves so quickly that there’s often no time to ask permission. Luckily, the Fair Use statute provides us with some rights while [...]
Continue reading...Toy2R Qee Forums Now Open
Sunday, April 20, 2008
After the closing of Qeester, fans have been hungry for a forum for all things Qee. Raymond Choy and co. have now launched the official Toy2R Forums to fill this void. The forums have Qee history, the latest product announcements, DIY assistance, and possibly the best part: a direct pipeline to some of the best [...]
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Wednesday, November 26, 2008
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