Full Vinyl: The Subversive Art of Designer Toys

Full Vinyl: The Subversive Art of Designer Toys

Geared toward garage kits, character figures, subculture figures, limited editions, and extreme figures by master creators, this book satisfies the appetite of the figure aficionado with a continuous stream of figures and vast and comprehensive selection. Full Vinyl covers mass–produced popular favorites (such as Homies), sub–culture figures, Anime–inspired figures (such as Bome), category–defining "thingies", Hong Kong luminaries (such as Eric So and Michael Lau), figures based on the work of hugely popular artists (such as Gary Baseman or Yoshitomo Nara), and artists that take figure making to the next level (such as Shinichi Yamashita).

This volume includes interviews with selected creators, and discussions on topics including aesthetics and the significance of the work for an older audience of collectors.

The catalog will include captioning for each figure, including licensing and distribution information.





Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 688.72
EAN: 9780060893385
ISBN: 0060893389
Label: Collins Design
Manufacturer: Collins Design
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 164
Publication Date: 2007-01-01
Publisher: Collins Design
Release Date: 2007-01-02
Studio: Collins Design



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Summary: Excelent!
Comment: It has some designers sketches !
More than I expected ! Great deal !!

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Summary: Too excited?
Comment: for those of us into urban vinyl, art toys, designer toys or whatever you'd like to call them - this is an excellent book. with it's coverage of dozens of artists with color photographs and biographies, it makes for a great read to the zealous collector, and that is exactly where the catch lies. for those of you looking for a bit of critticism or some braoder cultural context, i, for one, felt that this book treated the designers with over enthusiasm (not to say out-right FANaticism), and the two or three articles relating to urban vinyl as a phenomena semed more like a gesture then a genuine wish to explore the origins and implications of all these small weird toys.

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Summary: Full Vinul Yes Thank You!
Comment: This is such a wonderful, fun, plasticfantastic book! It has great essays from leading toymakers/collectors, amazing pictures and if you're nok hooked on designer toys after this book, I don't know if you ever will be hooked!

There also comes a little keychain with this book... I can't use it though. I don't want to "break the book", but it sure will be nice for someone else!


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