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Thursday, January 14, 2010

Nicole Gastonguay


New York-based fiber artist and graphic designer Nicole Gastonguay makes the cutest toys ever. She has a great sense of humor too.

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    Thursday, October 11, 2007

    Wood Is Good

    I’m not sure at what point an object ceases to be a craft or toy, and becomes fine art, but I’m hard pressed to accept the work of Takeji (Take-G) Nakagawa as anything but art. These hand-made wooden toys are simply amazing.



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    Wednesday, July 11, 2007

    TOYPOGRAPHY

    I don’t normally gush, but TOYPOGRAPHY is absolutely brilliant. This is everything that a non-electronic children’s toy could hope to be: part puzzle, part building blocks and part bilingual alphabets — all in one. TOYPOGRAPHY has developed an interesting way to integrate English and Chinese characters to create a visual word association between the languages. On top of that, you can also arrange the blocks into the shape of the object being spelled out. Just an all around great idea, hell, forget the kids, I might buy a set for myself.

    Thanks to Brian for pointing these out to me.





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    Wednesday, January 10, 2007

    All Things Retro

    The web designers at Bit Lounge have assembled a comprehensive collection of retro links at their Retrolounge site. The categories, which range from the 1800's through the 1980's, include: advertising, design, toys, fashion, architecture and music, along with a few others.

    The hairstyle names in this 1972 ad for Duke hair sheen are fan-freakin'-tastic. What I wouldn't give to be able to walk into a barber shop and ask for the "Private Eye" or "The Jet Setter". One can only dream.



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