Nerd (Un)Culture
Spider, an artist and plush designer for the Orlando-based group Me Llamo Jellyfish, sent us this teaser image of Seymour, his debut plush. The 24″ tall Seymour is a 100% hand-sewn, one-of-a-kind creation. He features fully-articulated lips, jaws, tongue, neck,…
Following up on 2006’s success, Plush Week 2: Eclectic Boogaloo maintains the same conceit of the original: 100% hand-made, one-of-a-kind plush creatures, direct from the crème de la crème of softie artists from around the world. In addition to the…
Derek Welch and Jason Bacon, from UNKL Brand, have been asked to chat about the wide world of design and vinyl toys at an upcoming Core77 Offsite event. Hosted by Portland’s own design gurus, Katsu Tanaka and Michael DiTullo, the…
The Operation: Fragmentation exhibition took place in mid-December at the Bar of Modern Art in Columbus, Ohio. Artists customized Jamungo’s 9″ tall Nade vinyl figures. Pieces from the show are now available for purchase…there still are a few amazing pieces…
The For Love of Munny Show opening will take place: Saturday, February 3, 2007 at 7pm At the Bear and Bird Boutique + Gallery – Inside/Upstairs at Tate’s Comics This will be the first show at their new gallery space….
This past Saturday, Überbot’s most ambitious event to date introduced a unique fusion of pop culture art and comics to the world. Munny Show 3 featured amazing custom work by local artists and kicked off the Holiday Heroes Charity Event…
Tonight at 7:30 PM (only a few hours from now), Jim Crawford and Gregory Blum, from STRANGEco, and Attaboy (Hi-Fructose) will be at Moe’s Books to discuss designer toys and their impact on popular culture. December 13 – 7:30 PM…
Kick off the new year at Gallery 1988 with Amanda Visell’s first solo show in LA. This is going to be one big celebration! There are plans for a “dixieland band” and Amanda will be there releasing some new products….
O my! Uglycon was a smashing success. Folks were lined up outside of Giant Robot (GR2 in LA) at 5 am for a 6 pm show opening (lounging in their lawn chairs). Hundreds of people walked through the doors, and…
Gallery Nucleus will be showing off artwork that “caters to the people who have taken an interest to background artists, concept artists, graphic designers, architects, painters and world makers.” The Imaginary Spaces show will run from December 16th through January…
The creator of Scarygirl, Nathan Jurevicius, is coming to NYC! Nathan will be making an afternoon appearance at Yoyamart – the trend-setting and super-cool boutique store located in the Meat-Packing District of New York City. He’ll be signing, doodling and…
BLVD Gallery is presenting the latest installment in Michael Leavitts’ Art Army® series, “The Guerilla Crew”. The Art Army action figures are homages to the killer art and artists that rock our world. The one-off figures are each original, fully…
Madam Edgar, a gallery and shop in Montreal, launched their 2nd Paperbag show yesterday. Today, many of the bags went up on ebay. The auctions began around 9 AM and will last for 3 days. If you’re asking yourself “What’s…
Robert, from Kung Fu Toys, was able to make it out to Pasadena and the Out of Vogue: Circus Punks custom show at Mixi-Bang. As you can tell from the photos, a number of folks attended the show’s opening on…
The “20/20 EXPO TOYS” will be held from December 9th to January 12th at Generacion X, the biggest comic-shop in Madrid, and it will show the works of 20 Spanish artists – from different fields such as fashion design, architecture,…