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Professor Fliggins hasn’t been adventuring for too long, but he’s already made quite a name for himself. In addition to discovering a Sausage Cadet and three Bean Teens (and making me desperately want to subscribe to the 12-month discovery club), you can now make your own mini-Fliggins head, thanks to Shawn ‘Shawnimals’ Smith. A simple DIY [...]
Continue reading...Friday, March 13, 2009
It was in August of 2006 that David Rodriguez of the now-defunct Rocket Pop put out a call for artists to participate in The Bomb Project – a show in Denton, Texas that would focus on customized BUDs from Jamungo. At the time, Rocket Pop was a new, small online shop that had a lot [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Well this event really looked like a lot of fun. And as our friend Tamika from VIMBY and Candied Cartel notes: the whole agenda mapped out in the press release makes a ton more sense when you pair the words with their visual counterparts. Shawn Smith will be working on this project for the next [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, October 7, 2008
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Just like following the Dead only 10X cooler, ToyCyte’s Jeremy and Saki caught up with the Shawnimals gang in San Francisco and New York. Shawn Smith, Jennifer Brody and game developers, Venan, hit up Double Punch, Rotofugi and My Plastic Heart to pre-acquaint fans of Shawn’s plush toys with the upcoming Ninjatown game for the [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, September 11, 2008
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It’s finally time to pay a visit to Ninjatown! But if you live in San Francisco, Chicago or New York, you don’t have to actually go to Ninjatown, ‘cos Ninjatown will be coming to you. The Ninjatown Sneak Peak Tour is hitting those towns to celebrate the upcoming release of the Nintendo DS game based [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, July 24, 2008
First I should let you know that I actually don’t care much for humanity. I prefer to be surrounded by legions of plastic and vinyl then people. So I enter the whole Comic Con experience with a mixture of anticipation (for the toys) and dread (for the humans). But as we know, not all homo [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, May 20, 2008
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There sure is a lot of shit in the designer toy community, literally. There’s Frank Kozik’s Sho-Plops. There’s Manny Galan’s Dookie-Poo. Now, Shawn Smith drops a deuce with the release of his handmade Pocket Dollop. This plush measures about 4″ wide and comes with a small hang tag with its name and story. The [...]
Continue reading...Friday, May 9, 2008
Shawn Smith is one busy, busy man. When he isn’t creating Shawnimal greatness with his wife and business partner Jennifer Brody, he’s been busy creating a Ninjatown game for Nintendo DS (due out probably in October 2008), partnering with Squibbles Ink on the recently debuted Plushform DIY Plush and pretty much just taking over the [...]
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Tuesday, March 17, 2009
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