ToyCyte: Toy Culture Collected

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 [...]

SOFT&FURRY Customs For Sale

Thursday, October 9, 2008

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It’s time to give SOFT&FURRY another bump. One of the most truly collaborative group custom shows of the year has some pieces left. While I’m still surly that someone got to both of the Toko pieces before me, check the online shop for available customs by sketchBot, Dookie-Poo, Markham Maes, Cypher13, Adam Haynes, Zeptonn, Galaxy [...]

SOFT&FURRY Collaboration Begins With International Launch

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

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SOFT&FURRY Collaboration Begins With International Launch

The SOFT&FURRY project collaboration is now under way. They’ve got a mix of 30+ international and national artists and 20+ local artists set to customize LOOFT, DOO, and GROOND. The international roster includes some heavy hitters from all over: Dave White - www.davewhite.me.uk (United Kingdom) DeadVolt - www.deadvoltage.com (Denmark) DGPH - www.dgph.com.ar (Argentina) HelloHikimori - www.hellohikimori.com (France) ILK - [...]

Black & White Freedrawings Presents a Global Doodle Collaboration

Tuesday, July 1, 2008

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Black & White Freedrawings Presents a Global Doodle Collaboration

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 [...]

Pop Cling Features Urban and Pop Artists in Foolproof Vinyl

Monday, June 16, 2008

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Even if your living room is made up of 5 Detolfs and a Karlstad, it doesn’t have to look like an IKEA catalog. Pop Cling aims to do for your house what Infectious [blogged] is doing for your car: that is, cover its plain and ordinary surfaces with vinyl slices of urban and pop art. [...]

Infectious Designer Car Art Launches Tomorrow

Tuesday, June 10, 2008

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Sunny turned me onto this new site when she blogged about taking your designer toy art hobby onto the open road. I’d recently spied a car in my neighborhood all done up in Daleks, so I emailed the Infectious team for an invite code. Here’s what I learned: Infectious car art is designed for easy installation [...]