Tag Archive | "Trexi"
Trexi Butt Bears
Here’s another one from the Trexi wayback machine. Created by Darren Gan and released by Play Imaginative in 2006, these Butt Bear trexis are still available. Each Butt Bear Trexi stands 3″ tall and has a thought bubble on its head (to signify its feelings) and an icon on its butt (to help emphasize those [...]
Continue reading...DIY Trexi Sets
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
The Trexi platform doesn’t get enough press, so look for some more Trexi talk here on ToyCyte. With spinnable heads in eight different shapes (Round, Bear, Cat, Oval, Square, Headphones, Horns and Monkey), the design is limited only by the scope of your own imagination. I haven’t been able to locate a complete set online, [...]
Continue reading...Black & White Freedrawings Presents a Global Doodle Collaboration
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
The best part of writing about toys isn’t always the toys themselves. Often, the toy is just one platform within a rich mediascape in which designers make their marks. These days, urban and pop artists design skate desks, clothing and housewares. I recently blogged about Infectious car art and Pop Clings wall decals and noticed [...]
Continue reading...Slobots are Robots Too: An Interview With M. Heisler
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
A couple months ago, a missive from M. Heisler landed in my inbox. It was a heads up on a “snazzy new slobot sculpture” he’d created for a custom toy show in Florida. The bot turned out to be SlomunnyV3, a creature in search of life’s meaning amidst the backdrop of technological obscolescence. Many Slobots [...]
Continue reading...SUPERFAN: Jeff Tucker on Joe Ledbetter collection
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
ToyCyte believes that collectors can often be as enigmatic and interesting as the artists with whom they’re obsessed. Have you ever marveled at a high bidder on eBay and thought “Who IS that?” In this series, I’ll be interviewing some of those people. If we pick you and you share your story, ToyCyte will give [...]
Continue reading...BEYOND TOYS: Moo.com Promo Code for Free Stickers
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
I heart Moo.com. In the parlance of Wired Magazine: Hallmark = Expired E-cards = Tired Moo cards = Wired What are Moo cards? With a clean and user-friendly interface, UK-based Moo.com lets you make your own mini business cards, greeting cards, note cards, postcards and sticker books. They offer a selection of readymade products by urban designers, as well [...]
Continue reading...Voltaire’s Deady Video Game
Friday, April 18, 2008
Voltaire is best known as a good-humored gothic (bet you thought that was an oxymoron) folk singer/songwriter out of New York City. Based on a mutual admiration of each other’s work, he and Toy2r’s Raymond Choy put out Voltaire’s character, Deady: The Malevolent Teddy as a Qee. Other 2″, 8″ and baby Qee, Trexi and [...]
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Tuesday, September 16, 2008
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