Aaron Johnson’s Now We Hunt Hippopotamus
http://www.jeremyriad.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/johnson-hippopotamus-550x419.jpg You know how sometimes when you look at a piece of art, you don’t necessarily know what it means or from whence it...
View ArticleAugmented Reality Designer Toy Scavenger Hunt Happening NOW!
http://www.jeremyriad.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/GoldRunToyHunt-550x475.jpg Right now, if you live in San Francisco, New York, Chicago or London, there are designer toys in your midst. They’re all...
View ArticlePop Culture Nesting Dolls
http://www.jeremyriad.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/BigLebowskiNestingDolls-550x412.jpg Lately there’s a lot of artwork that follows a pretty specific formula: X (where X is a pop culture phenomenon)...
View ArticleA Portable Animated Gif Player!
http://www.jeremyriad.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/GifPlayerDisc-550x550.gif Filed under AWESOME. If you are a regular reader of this blog, you know that my adoration for animated gifs runs deep....
View ArticleVintage Cameras Turned into Night Lights
http://www.jeremyriad.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/jayfish-camera-nightlights2-550x825.jpg Following up yesterday’s Classic Toys Turned into Lamps, here’s another one to file under Re-purposing...
View ArticleGary Ham Gets Wood For The Sucklord
http://www.jeremyriad.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Sucklord-GaryHam1-550x550.jpg When The Sucklord got voted off the Work of Art island last week (well, really over the course of an epic trilogy),...
View ArticleCasually Pepper Spray Everything Cop Meme
http://www.jeremyriad.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/SgtPepperSpray-550x440.jpg Maybe everybody can’t agree on whether the Occupy protesters are “doing it right”, but I think we all probably can agree...
View ArticleI Was a Teenage Pixies Fan
http://www.jeremyriad.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/pixies-doolittle-napa1-550x310.jpg The Pixies released their 2nd full-length album, Doolittle, in 1989. The next year, I turned 13 and got Doolittle...
View ArticleRetro Muppets Posters For Sale
http://www.jeremyriad.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/mdepippo-muppets-acme-550x150.jpg Remember Michael dePippo‘s throwback concert posters for Muppets’ band, Electric Mayhem? The series received a...
View ArticleElectronic Van Orlax and a Studio Visit with Pete Fowler
http://www.jeremyriad.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/pete-fowler-van-orlax.jpg David Cranner, maker of electronic instruments and mechanical sculptures, augmented this Van Orlax with two “Weird Sound...
View ArticleFrank Kozik Sneakers from Puma
http://www.jeremyriad.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/kozik-puma-1-550x276.jpg Frank Kozik was recently back in Argentina for the debut of a new Kozik-emblazoned PUMA sneaker. Exclusively available in...
View ArticleSuitcase Stickers Say F.U. to the T.S.A.
http://www.jeremyriad.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/suitcase-sticker-drugs.jpg Commercial flying and the airport experience have become such an unpleasant experience that one must really resort to...
View ArticleReal Life Green Army Man Promotes Toy Store in Brazil
http://www.jeremyriad.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/green-army-man.jpg Creative agency Age Isobar installed this real life green army man outside of Limited Edition Collectible Toys, a toy shop in São...
View ArticleiPhone App Puts You in the SKWAK Maniac World
http://www.jeremyriad.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/mrchiizu-skwak1-550x754.jpg Most people shy away from chaos, but some thrive on it. If you fall into the latter category, you’ll enjoy the...
View ArticleBeautiful 3D-Printed Moving Sculptures by Michaella Janse Van Vuuren
http://www.jeremyriad.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/3D-horse-marionette-1-550x731.jpg 3D-printing is shaping up to become a real game-changer in the world of sculpture. Through my work with MAQET, I’m...
View Article16 Designers Go Stag for Charity with Graham and Green
http://www.jeremyriad.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/designer-stags-550x226.jpg So you like customized stags, but you’re sick of the old Gucci and guns routine? UK-based Graham and Green, purveyors of...
View ArticleHappy Thanksgiving 2011
http://www.jeremyriad.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/kozik-thanksgiving.jpg Happy Thanksgiving 2011, everybody. I wanted to say a quick thank you to all who stop by and read my blog. I can’t describe...
View ArticleConcerning Complex’s 50 Best Designer Toys List
http://www.jeremyriad.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/complex-dtlist-550x321.jpg The second I saw Complex’s 50 Best Designer Toys List, I inhaled and braced for backlash. The complaints came swiftly:...
View ArticleFitness for Nerds, Or: Three Ways to Avoid Looking Like a Dumbbell
http://www.jeremyriad.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/alternative-dumbbells-550x260.jpg I, of all people, know the pain of being pigeonholed based on my muscles. “He’s all brawn and no brain,” they say....
View ArticleIcelandic Cheerios Character Designs by Halli Civelek
http://www.jeremyriad.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/HalliCivelek-Cheerios1.jpg Dear General Mills, If you were to manufacture American Cheerios as you do Icelandic Cheerios (in boxes adorned with...
View ArticleToys by Design: Circus Posterus
http://www.jeremyriad.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/design-bureau-december-2011-550x357.jpg Design Bureau‘s December issue has been out for a couple of weeks. Have you picked up a copy? It’s got a...
View ArticleNew Resin Toy Art from Ukrainian Asylum
http://www.jeremyriad.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/ThePatient6Show-550x315.jpg It looks like Patient No. 6 has been re-admitted into the soul-crushing psychiatric hospital. While he got out for a...
View ArticleHistory of Art Snow Globes
http://www.jeremyriad.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/ArtHistorySnowglobes.jpg There’s something really satisfying about seeing “highbrow” art history movements contained inside that trusty standby of...
View ArticleMossy Tools for Modern Living
http://www.jeremyriad.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/mosslife.jpg I woke up feeling kind of mossy this morning. If you don’t know what that means, I can’t really explain it. It’s one of those “you had...
View ArticleIf Only Occupy Wall Street Had FieldCandy Tents
http://www.jeremyriad.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/TerryPastorTent-550x325.jpg If you think the notion of camping in style is pre-TENT-ious, then these designer tents from FieldCandy tents are not...
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