Sweet, Sweet Alexander Girard Alphabet Blocks

The things you run across in the middle of the night. The ever-cool font and design shop House Industries has partnered with the Alexander Girard estate to create an incredible set of alphabet blocks. The 28-block set features the...
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Thanks To Daddy Types' Advertisers Who Stuff The Turkeys Of Our Lives With Goodness

Looking to ladle the gravy of gratitude from Daddy Types' discerning readership onto the brine-soaked goodness of your company, product, event, or belief system? Advertise on Daddy Types today [well, not today today, because all the slots are full, but...
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Philippe Starck Bottle Brush Looks Vaguely Tree-like, Vaguely Expensive

$27 shipped seems a bit steep for a circa-2001 bottle brush designed by Philippe Starck for Target, even if it is mint-in-box. But then again, this is the only one of these things I've seen turn up on eBay...
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Belgian Ad Shows Limits Of Cry-It-Out

Yes, it's true. Cry-it-out doesn't work as well past age six. This Belgian commercial suggests an alternative way to avoid this scenario, but if you're reading Daddy Types, it's probably already too late for you. Note: If you have...
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Acrobats, Diggers, & Farm Animals: Sweet, Minty Creative Playthings Toys On eBay

Whoa. If you're a fan of the Creative Playthings, but you don't dig your kid playing with pre-chewed toys, I suggest you introduce yourself to Clem 60637 in Chicago. He's an eBay seller who just put up five vintage CP...
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Blocks + Molded Ply = Creative Playthings Arc Curves

Sometime in late 1966, Creative Playthings must've gotten itself a marketing guy, or maybe a lawyer guy, because all the toys that're called things like Thin Arch in the '66 catalogue are called things like Arc-Curves TM in the...
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Bboy Booginsroc Has Ill Moves

The story about how, back in the day, when he was a baby, Frank Lloyd Wright's mother got him a set of Froebel blocks, which helped him develop his sense of architecture, geometry and spatial clarity, is well known. The...
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Capt. Picard Sings The Alphabet

So I'm supposed to tell the kid that San Francisco is the headquarters of Starfleet, the capital of the whole Alpha Quadrant, but that somehow "Zed" overtakes "Zee" in the alphabet of the 24th century? Not on this side...
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