March 1, 2007
Forget the design implications for a moment; one of the things that blows me away about the designer toy phenomenon is the blanks business model, where instead of just putting out a character doll, you put out a blank,...
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I just bought a couple of musty 1962 issues of Popular Mechanics from 1962. They have huge spreads of photos and plans for building nine great-looking pieces of play furniture by Swedish designers: toy bins and play tables, little...
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* The end of your, long, parched agony is in sight. I just got the first word from a retailer that they have received actual, official Bugaboo drink holders. So hit up Jon at Pacifier in Minneapolis if you're...
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Holy crap, And I thought Bisphenol A hysteria compounded by equivocating corporate shills was scary. Artist and prolific children's book illustrator Bob Staake ["Stack," as in "stack of titles to his name," btw] remembered all the tales of Der...
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Matthew Cruickshank cited the Boston-based character design firm Studio Espinosa as one of the inspirations for his Neo-Mickey animation. Espinosa is run by a husband-wife team who are just beginning to see their wealth of ideas realized. They have a...
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