Lunartik Custom Toy Show in Vienna

Matt Jones aka. Lunartik released his great designer toy recently on a bigger scale, and now he’s touring Europe with some awesome customs of his Cup of Tea! The current show in Vienna at sixxa store in Kirchengasse 22 highlights some of the biggest names in character design and illustration from the UK. So the [...]

Vienna Design Week – character design

I wasn’t able to be an active part at London Design Week (why is September so busy?), but at least some of my graphics/characters are featured there – thanks to Nick/rawstudio. Ok, but I’ll be able to be part of Vienna Design Week, when the sixxa store vienna hosts another amazing custom toy show: Lunartik [...]

Secret Wars Battle Tour – Wien

Secret Wars – the competition for illustrators – is on tour, and one of the 18 stops is Vienna. So on Sunday, September 27th, local artists Nychos and El Lasso will face the tour team Caparso and Mike Okay in an epic marker battle. Venue will be MQ Vienna, just keep looking for the b®andwagen [...]

Kidrobot Dunny Series 2009 – Trading Party Wien

Vinyl Toy trades anyone? Dunny Series 2009 is about to be released in a week, so it’s time for another trading party in Vienna … Hosted by sixxa store vienna (of course) in Kirchengasse 22. I’ll be there with my dupes, let’s see where this takes us ;-)&nbsp

connect4 – Character Mini Festival in Wien

Finally more info on the toy highlight in June! connect 4 features 4 different events in 3 locations on 2 days based on 1 common theme: characters rock! So walk Wien Neubau to explore the OFF art toy release by rich:art (sixxa store), the REM art toy custom show by nychos and lots of invited [...]

Tara McPherson Signing Tour – Vienna

I mentioned in my last post that June will be a cool month for people interested in urban contemporary art and vinyltoys. So … I’m really looking forward to Tara McPherson visiting Inoperable Gallery for the release tour of her new book Lost Constellations. June 27th, mark this weekend in your calendar – there will [...]

urban art toy madness in Wien

June will be a solid month for the urban art toy scene in Vienna, as two friends are presenting their production runs of toys: So prepare for Nychos‘ Rabbit Eye Movement Toy Show at Inoperable Gallery (June 26th) as well as the OFF toy release by rich:art at the sixxa store (date tba). Plus: Tara [...]

Skateboarding for cancer charity

Ok, I already posted something about the 4 wheels against cancer mission, a charity project to collect money for cancer research. The 4wac team just released this small teaser, stay tuned for more! For further info visit their website or myspace and please support the good cause!&nbsp

Pictopia Berlin 2009 – short review

Berlin, yeah, good that we went there again! A lot of things changed since our last stay about 1 1/2 years ago, it’s pretty amazing how fast cool things pop up there … Our main reason was to attend Pictoplasma Festival, and we weren’t disappointed. Pictopia surprised with some new ideas, and they put a [...]

Some lemming designs at Ispo 09

Winter ISPO is almost on (will start on Sunday), if anyone want’s to have a look at some products/designs I did for 2009/10, just approach me there! What’s in the pipe? Well, more then a hand full of Boardgraphics for the guys at Atomic Snowboarding. Including the Splitboard (Poacher), their new freeride rocker (Banger) and [...]