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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...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...Win the Toys Are Us: Director’s Cut DVD!
Monday, September 29, 2008
Beyond seeing toys on your television and being able to call out, "I have that," Toys Are Us is interesting on a number of levels. For instance, the interviews with Frank Kozik and Brian Flynn are particularly educational, from their perspectives on who gets "O.G." credit for the designer vinyl movement (hint: it's not Michael Lau) to some choice words for and against extended colorways.
Continue reading...Nathan Jurevicius Monkey King Release and Signing
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Cool news from Munky King on Melrose: Nathan Jurevicius is hitting up LA to release and sign The Monkey King, his interpretation of the store’s namesake. Available will be the Fire Monkey (150 produced), the Earth Monkey (600 produced) and a small quantity of SDCC Metal Monkey exclusives (150 produced). Nathan originally created this rendition [...]
Continue reading...ToyTokyo Exclusives Latest Updates
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
I’m really digging the diversity of the ToyTokyo (Booth #5237) SDCC ‘08 exclusives and this is the third installment of exclusives [tagged]. Barack and Buff? tokidoki and Daniel Johnston? Kaiju and Plush? It’s an inspired mix and ToyTokyo continues to release images of the exclusives. Here’s an update to the previous posts with new photos [...]
Continue reading...ToyTokyo SDCC 08 Exclusives Updated
Monday, July 14, 2008
I’m really digging the diversity of the ToyTokyo (Booth #5237) SDCC ‘08 exclusives; a couple of which made this week’s ToyCyte SDCC ‘08 Weekly Roundup. Barack and Buff? tokidoki and Daniel Johnston? Kaiju and Plush? It’s an inspired mix and ToyTokyo continues to release images of the exclusives. Here’s an update to the previous post [...]
Continue reading...ToyTokyo SDCC 08 Exclusives
Monday, July 7, 2008
I’m really digging the diversity of the ToyTokyo (Booth #5237) SDCC ‘08 exclusives; a couple of which made this week’s ToyCyte SDCC ‘08 Weekly Roundup. Here’s what is planned so far: SAN DIEGO COMIC-CON DEBUTS Barack Obama Action Figure in White Suit (200 pieces) Mark Bode’’s “Bode Broad” L.A. Version Ron English MC Supersized “Glitter Version” Nathan Jurevicius Peleda SDCC [...]
Continue reading...Artoyz Elements Blind Boxes with Burgerman, Jurevicius, KOA and MIST
Friday, July 4, 2008
Awesome French webzine, Guillotine, made it to Barcelona for the Bread and Butter exhibition. They’re bringing us some great pics to supplement the coverage that Artoyz provided yesterday of their upcoming figures Kid Onion and Crazy Monkey. Easy Hey’s Kid Onion figure has 4 multi-hued colorways, while Bunka’s Crazy Monkey is shown in pink, blue, [...]
Continue reading...San Diego Comic-Con Exclusives Part 2
Friday, June 20, 2008
Every year, fanboys and fangirls of varying stripes descend on San Diego for Comic-Con. Although the event has extensive programming, there’s one activity that unites the collectors with the cosplayers, the MMP gamers with the manga readers, the superheroes with the steampunks: the pursuit of SDCC’s exclusive toys. ToyCyte will be publishing a weekly bulletin of [...]
Continue reading...Nathan Jurevicius’s Scarygirl Gots Game
Thursday, June 12, 2008
Don’t you want to book a play date with Scarygirl? Get out your datebook, and pencil in some time for Scarygirl: The Game. Here’s a sneak peek, courtesy of Toysrevil, of Nathan Jurevicius’s star and other of his characters in a gorgeous SG-Universe. The eye patched ebony haired heroine journeys through forests, woods, underwater among [...]
Continue reading...Scary Girl Goes for the Bronze
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Ya gotta love metal. No, no, no I’m not talking about Slayer or Metallica, I’m talking about the new phenomenon of vinyl designers doing things in good old-fashioned metals. On the horizon from Nathan Jurevicious is a gorgeous looking bronze Scary Girl. Check out the pic of the prototype above of the upcoming vinyl, plush, [...]
Continue reading...It’s a Party! A Trading Party!
Friday, May 9, 2008
Yet another reason to head up to good old Canada. Not only is the store Magic Pony having the stellar looking Nathan Jurevicius show opening next week (check out my other post today on this one) but they’re having a party, a trading party! The Magic Pony Trading Club has their kick-off soiree tomorrow May [...]
Continue reading...Reformation: Nathan Jurevicius Solo Show
Friday, May 9, 2008
Me thinks I need to get up to visit our neighbors to the north in that land known as Canada more often. Especially when Toronto’s Magic Pony is putting on such amazing shows. Last week they had the Oh No! Oh Oh! Gary Taxali signing (see Jeremy’s write up here), will host a trading party [...]
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Wednesday, November 26, 2008
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