Nerd (Un)Culture
Josmar Madureira (a.k.a Katkiller) is a Brazilian based art toy designer. He usually tries his hand making collectible plush toys inspired in pop icons (music, fashion, movies, etc.). The Katkiller toys are approximately 21″ tall, made of cloth (raw cotton,…
Chip Tantlinger is curating a show entitled Pandora’s Toy Box: Customs for a Doomed World. The show will preview May 15th, beginning at 5PM, at the Good News Mountaineer Garage Gallery in Charleston, WV. A formal opening will take place…
The launch of JamFactory and Crazy Label’s vinyl toy – Droplet – will take place at Go Go Plastic! in The Custard Factory (Birmingham). If you attend you’ll be able to get your hands on Droplet before anyone else in…
If I was in NYC this week, instead of next, I’d definitely make it out to this show…which takes place on Saturday April 12th from 2PM until 5PM in Chinatown. With a bunch of great sponsors, there will surely be…
The Plush Off! show will be taking place on Sunday April 13th from 1PM until 5PM at Rink Gallery in Bethany, Oklahoma. The show, sponsored by Salt Boutique, will run through May 5th and show plushies from Chop Shop, Plushybutt,…
Jon Burgerman currently has several art shows going on around the world…particularly Italy and the UK. The show in London – name Pop Idle – will run through April 30th at Concrete Hermit. Jon describes the the show as: The…
On April 1st, Hot Wheels® and Los Angeles-based, Gallery 1988, hosted opening night of the TOYS art exhibit, which features more than 200 pieces created by pop surrealist artists from around the world, who were inspired by generations of children’s…
Daniel sent us a sneak peek at the latest prototype for the next character in the Spök-spök line. Morot is a good friend of Spök-spök. Morot is always curious, and tells lots of jokes that no one really gets. The…
Eloole is actually producing custom plush dolls. So, if you always wanted to become a plush character…here’s your choice. They’ll produce that custom plush of you or a friend and then you can produce creepy puppet shows all alone in…
Japanese avant-garde art collective ALFORT will be customizing 80 Blythe dolls to create a dreamlike scene of little people who inhabit a landscape of unconscious memory. Titled “Lilliput ~ my little friends”, the exhibit will run April 10th until May…
Joe Grady, aka Rebelwookiee, sent us a few photos of his entry into the “Multiple Personalities” group show at LiFT Designer Toys in Detroit. Named Solitary Blunder, this custom Qee will be available for purchase.
Here’s another handmade plush artist. Pina Koala produces a variety of different plush designs, however, our favorites are the food-related items. They’re good enough to eat…if you’re still on that high fiber diet.
Cameron Tiede sent in photos of a pair of custom projects he recently completed. The above pictured custom Hot Wheels VW van is for the recently opened Toys show at Gallery1988. The custom Geisha Girl (below) is named Pulmonary Embolism…
This April 19th, Giant Robot will be hosting the Deharavath group art show. The event will feature the work of Yukinori Dehara, David Horvath and Sun-Min Kim. Dehara’s hand-painted clay depictions of debauched salarymen, brutalized gangsters, happy monsters, and other…
Are you close to the Poconos? Well, on Saturday April 5, 2008 The Main St. Jukebox located in downtown Stroudsburg, PA will host “Munny On Main St.” 18 local artists have donated their time to customize their very own Munny….