Shin born 1980, Fukuoka, JAPAN has quiet a rep for making the most amazing toy collectables from paper and card. Some wicked collabs and exhibitions have seen these paper art pieces travel from NY to Singapore and very soon Cape Town for the ROCK, PAPER, SNEAKER Exhibition with NIKE.

Rock, Paper Sneakers
The paper art exhibition of Shin Tanaka in association with Nike.
17TH August
Shelflife
119 Loop St
Cape Town

SHIN TANAKA

It happens this Sunday in LA, 12-3 at Munky King, and 4-7 at Barracuda. Good times for everyone. Free tacos and stickers, new prints, exclusive vinyl figure only available on Sunday.

FRIDAY, July 27th 6:00PM to 8:00PM
Vinyl Toy Network @ Jerome’s Warehouse aka The Factory
1466 F Street, San Diego

SATURDAY, July 28 th 1:00PM to 2:00PM
Toy Tokyo SDCC Booth #5325

BUFF MONSTER SITE
BUFF MONSTER INTERVIEW ON FMCS

Take-G’s toys are of a different variety and are more presentable in public, in fact ‘TO’ presentable! Highly nickable (if there is such a word). So cool are these crafted toys that they deserve to be glass cased!

A real breath of freash air from the usual plastic and foam moulded toys that are available everywhere! Big up Take-G!

TAKE-G WEBSITE

To get started, download all three design templates from the Bovinyl website and then let your creativity loose. Send your completed designs to submissions.
The deadline to enter is July 11th, 2007 @ 8 PM Pacific.

Entries will be judged by Ted Stilson, the creator of the Moody, and three industry professionals who select toy designs for a living: Ferg (Jamungo), Vanbeater (Jamungo), and Richard VanOver (Wheaty Wheat Studios). Entries will be posted to Vinyl Pulse after the contest and judging have been completed. The top three entries, selected by the judges, will receive prizes packages supplied by Bovinyl, Voltage and Vinyl Pulse.

1st Prize - A blank Moody, $100 (CDN) Gift Certificate at VoltageLand, Vinyl Pulse Tee, Moody skate-deck, 400% Bearbrick Tim Biskup Alphabeast Calli, 8″ Flying Fortress Dunny plus Flying Fortress Tee.

2nd Prize - A blank Moody, $75 (CDN) Voltage Gift Certificate, Angry Ice Cream plush pack (small, medium and large Ice Creams), Vinyl Pulse Tee and an autographed Nathan Jurevicius comic book.

3rd Prize - A blank Moody, $25 (CDN) Voltage Gift Certificate, Vinyl Pulse Tee, and an autographed Tim Tsui Dape 3″ Qee.

These prizes should help to jump start your creative and competitive juices. So, let’s see what you can create on the Moody platform.

If you’d like to purchase a Moody for yourself, they are available directly from the Bovinyl online shop.

For more information, visit www.vinylpulse.com or send an email to info@bovinyl.ca

Erick Scarecrow’s Shiitakes series are 4” plush mushrooms that were based on his designs from a previous toy custom that received an overwhelming response.

Since the guest list has been filled, they would like to give other talented people the chance to express their creativity by participating in this event.

The 4 inch D-I-Y plush Shiitakes will retail for $6.99 and will be exclusively available on esctoy.com beginning 04/17/07. These D-I-Y plush pieces can be dyed, glued, painted but not eaten.

Quantities are very limited and will be handled on a first come and first serve basis.

The Shiitakes Parade will be held on 06/16/07
4pm- 9pm at ToyQube located at:
133-31 39th Ave #F36,
Flushing,
NY 11354.

Esc-Toy Ltd. is the manufacturer of the series and will release more information
regarding it as the launch approaches.

ESCTOY WEBSITE

ERIC SCARECROW BLOG

14 brand new Speakerdog Paper Toys have just been released, each designed by a different artist!

Artists include… Andy Smith, Susan Burghart, Rachel Ortas, Drunk Park and The Boy Fitz Hammond!

MORE AT SPEAKERDOG

A late 80s style icon, and the bigger and badder it was, the bigger and badder you were.

That’s why we love Ghettopaper, takes us back to the day see. When it wasn’t about how big your hard drive was but how big your bass bins were…

Anyway these colorful little cut out ghetto blasters will help you kill a few hours in the day, and they look good on your desk as well.

GHETTO PAPER

The site is created by Tahir and Andy as a way for people to view all the great custom toys in one place.

To celebrate the launch CustomToyLab are giving away a custom set of ‘ZLIKS’ created by Bil BetsOvic. To enter the competition all you need to do is leave a comment on the following post - Bil BetsOvic.

All artists are invited to get involved, and showcase their toy customizing and creation talents.

Custom toys you can submit range from custom vinyl toys, hand made plush toys, designer paper toys, or any other kind of DIY toy.

If you want your toy designs to be featured on Custom Toy Lab then pop over to the Toy Submission Page!

CustomToyLab are also looking for artists to do tutorials in text/picture or video format.

CUSTOM TOY LAB
SUBMIT YOUR TOY DESIGN

Introducing ARO OPEN HEAD from the the French aerosol artist, and toy and clothing designer Steph.Cop. This new version is ALL black and limited to 100 copies, all numbered and individually signed available at QB-Unit.

And below is a sweet little teaser about Steph. Cop’s “Process Book”
More at Process Black Un-inked.

STEPH COP

For the next few weeks AMOS are running a guerilla Ebay store with listings that are added to on a weekly basis. This is a great opportunity to own James Jarvis /AMOS toys without paying large amounts of cash for the privilege.

The store features the In-Crowd sets, King Ken, Vortigern’s Machine, World of Pain etc… And some very special editions.

Worth a look: AMOS