Tested Interviews Jason Freeny at DesignerCon 2017

Norm Chan from Tested.com sat down with artist Jason Freeny once again for an interview at the recent DesignerCon event in Pasadena, CA. Check the interview below:

Horrible Adorables at DCon Booth 809

Horrible Adorables will be releasing a bunch of new items at DESIGNER CON!!!

*THE ODDI-TEA PARTY*

Horrible Adorables is having a Tea Party, and you're all invited!  The Oddi-Tea Party's guest list includes Winged Pippets, Pomsorials, and Pompedelettes all dressed up in their fanciest frills.  Each one-of-a-kind piece gets it's color palette from various tea flavors, such as Earl Grey, Pumpkin Chai, and English Breakfast.  

Booth #809

DCON - November 11-12 2017 - Pasadena, CA

Price range - $100-$180

Edition Size - All one of a kind pieces.  9 pieces total.

*SQUISH-A-LITL SQUASH-A-LOTL*  (see gif)

Horrible Adorables soft sculptures just got a whole lot softer!  They are dipping their toes into a new medium and a small initial run of 12 squishy foam creatures will be available in a range of pastel hues.  Take out your horrible stress on these adorable critters by giving them a good squeeze!

Booth #809

DCON - November 11-12 2017 - Pasadena, CA

Price - $15

Edition Size - 12 pieces (open edition)

*NEW FOXOLOTL MINI MOUNT*

Horrible Adorables will be releasing their newest mini mount at DCon.  This time it's in the form of Foxolotl, the little fan-eared cutie.  They'll only be bringing 6 of this new style to DCon, so be sure to snag one quick.  Foxolotl will also be joined by many popular styles of their wall hanging creatures. 

Booth #809

DCON - November 11-12 2017 - Pasadena, CA

Price range - $70

Edition Size - 6 one of a kind pieces in various colors (open edition)

*THE WOLF PIN*

Horrible Adorables has collaborated with The Artpin Collection to bring you 'The Wolf' enamel pin.  This is the first in a series of pins based off of folktales where Horrible Adorables has reinterpreted Little Red Riding Hood with a morbid twist.  Horrible Adorables will have an exclusive Zombie colorway available at their booth at DCon in addition to the original colorway available through The Artpin Collection.

Booth #809

DCON - November 11-12 2017 - Pasadena, CA

Price range - $10 (special con price!) 

Edition Size - 45

*HAREMUS PIN*

The third pin release from Horrible Adorables debuts at DCon!  Their beloved character Haremus makes its way to enamel pin form.  As the weather gets chillier, it's the perfect companion to any cozy sweater.  

Booth #809

DCON - November 11-12 2017 - Pasadena, CA

Price range - $10

Edition Size - 100

Website: www.horribleadorables.com

Shop: horribleadorables.etsy.com

Facebook: www.facebook.com/HorribleAdorables/

Instagram: @horrible_adorables

Sugar Fueled's Sweet Success

 As the show comes to an end, the acts retire for the season & the vendors begin to pack up what's left of their delicious treats. Every buttered kernel of popcorn, every salted pretzel, every treat imaginable  gets thrown into the trailer...except for one. Far off into the darkness lies a forgotten spindle of the most delicious, hand spun cotton candy this side of the west coast.

Our confectioner for this evening was none other than the one and only Sugar Fueled." A Little Dirt Never Hurt" came to NYCC as a themed piece for PiQ's " Cirque Du PiQ"

  

This sugary maven used this opportunity to really connect to the audience by giving us a little piece of him. The spindle is a retired paintbrush of the artist; one that was used to create other magnificent pieces such as Spun with Love, Your As Welcome As Can Be, Belle and many many more. Adding this piece to your collection is more than adding just another custom; it's completely engulfing you to a simpler time. One reminiscent of the days of old.

TEASER: "Vagabonds" Willo Custom Show at DesignerCon 2017

More info soon! Obvsiouly this show will take place at Kyle Kirwan's booth at DCon. I have the artist roster list but not sharing yet! Although, I will say: I am one of the artists!

-Benny

Broke Piggy DCON available online Cyber Monday

Broke Piggy has listed their remaining inventory from DesignerCon on their website.

They have limited inventory of their Sognyo Colorway of the Uamou Figure, Black Seed Toys Pineapple Monster, Bricked MADL customs (Deph, Marka27 and Jesse Hernandez) and the Art Enamel Pin.

Their shop still has limited amounts of our Lo Tech Constructs series as well.

Broke Piggy can be found at the following sites

http://brokepiggyinc.com/
http://facebook.com/brokepiggy
http://instagram.com/brokepiggy
http://twitter.com/brokepiggytoys

Urban Vinyl Daily Designer Con Coverage Videos

This past weekend Urban Vinyl Daily traveled to Designer Con to check out all the goodies at the show! They have released a short walk through video showing off some of the great products available at the show. They also have released interviews with Ben Goretsky of Designer Con an the artist Craola. They have more on the way so make sure to subscribe to their YouTube channel HERE to keep with all their DCon coverage.

Angryblue Signing at Bigshot Toyworks Booth 901 - Sat 1PM

Angryblue (Justin Kamerer) will be on hand at the Bigshot Toyworks Booth #901 at DesignerCon to sign his newest art object release for fans! The Mother Earth piece is 14" long and comes with a hanging mount on the back to hang neatly on your wall. $125 each, only 100 made in heavy polystone.

ARTISTS at DCON: Tag the Giant All City Style Train at Play Nice Booth #1444

All City Style and Bigshot Toyworks are teaming up with Play Nice Toys to lend some rolling thunder to their awesome live art / dance party which will take place in Oakland, CA in May 2017.

To celebrate, they've printed up some GIANT 8-foot-wide All City Style trains which will be at their DCon booth #1444. ALL ARTISTS are invited to roll up on their way into DCon and blast some art onto the giant ACS canvas!

Play Nice is easy to find at DCon. Their booth is located in the hallway between the big room and the little room, just past the entrance and the 1000toys booth. Can't miss it, there's a giant steampunk DJ booth and also Play Nice will be projecting artwork onto the opposing wall.

WHAT IS PLAY NICE?

Dance, create, collect and share YOUR message with the world, Play Nice Toys // Booth #1444...

The DesignerCon countdown continues! As the nation continues to make history this week, con-artists everywhere are creating. What better time to get together with like minded friends to support the scene you love? 

Play Nice Booth 1444 is promoting an art/food/music mashup event located in the San Francisco Bay Area, at the historic 16th Street Train Station in Oakland, Memorial Day Weekend, Saturday, May 27, 2017. 

Showcasing designer toys, graffiti, sticker and DJ culture... there'll be everything from food trucks and interactive art installations to state of the art video mapping and some of the playa's favorite art cars. Get the exclusive Dcon ONLY ticket offer before prices go up!! 

Artist roster:

Alex Gwynne . Bengi Nati . Big C . Bit + Paper Toys . burn353 . Colby Sunshine -Ghost Pyramid- . Cubeecraft . DJ Qbert -Thud Rumble- . Gary Ham -Marsham Toy Hour- . Jerome Lu -Hyperactive Monkey- . Jesse Hernandez -Urban Aztec- . Keith Allen . Luke Chueh . Marko Zubak . Matt Hawkins . Nanibird . Nick Knite . Nolizz Z Li . Rosston Meyer -Poposition Press- . Ryan Hall . Salazad . Shin Tanaka . Stand Up Artista . Super Cooper . The Space Wanderer . Tougi . Toygami . Urban Paper Collective . Woes Martin -Angry Woebots- . +MANY more TBA

DCON EVENTS at BOOTH 1444:

SAT:  3 PM ~ Catch a LIVE scratch session with DJ Qbert, grab some awesome *free* papertoys, and make sure you're first in line for a collector's edition autographed poster giveaway

SUN: 2 PM ~ Live art session, featured artists customize a GIANT All City Style *blank* train car 

Radioactive Uppercut Dcon exclusives

Radioactive Uppercut will have a small handful of hand brush painted one-off items for sale this coming weekend at Designercon at the Toy Art Gallery booth.

TAG's booth is 1221, Designer Con is in Pasadena at the at the Pasadena Convention Center and runs November 19th and 20th

Bigshot Toyworks Exclusives at DCon Booth 901

Bigshot Toyworks is bringing the indy collectible fire to Pasadena, CA and the 2016 DesignerCon event! This is an event that is open to the public on Saturday Nov 19 and Sunday Nov 20. Tickets are quite inexpensive and can be purchased here.

Some of the MANY wonderful art toys and collectibles that Bigshot Toyworks will be selling at DCon are:

Southern Fried Gentleman 6.5" resin figures

Southern Fried Gentlemen (pictured above): Regular, Old Timey Mono and Golden Crispy Editions.
Regular edition of 100 priced at $85, Exclusive Mono and Golden each limited to 20 pieces and priced at $100.

Mother Earth 14" art object by Angryblue

Mother Earth is a ready-to-hang 3D sculpture designed by Angryblue and developed and produced by Bigshot. Limited to 100 pieces; $125 ea. 

Gnomeboy Anatomy 6" polystone figures

Two variants available: Ragnar "The Metal Gnome" Hellstrummer Gnomeboy Anatomy Black Death edition Bigshot x Jason Freeny, limited to 50 pieces; $75 ea (above). Regular edition limited to 200 pieces; $65 ea (below).

 

Bigshot has been forward-thinking enough to set aside some of each of the above items for online sales to benefit their legions of fans worldwide! All of the above are available for preorder from the Bigshot Toyshop right now, with the sea shipment slated to arrive in 3-4 weeks. 

On top of all of the above, Bigshot will also be selling FUnicorns, the Four Horsies of the Pocalypse figures, All City Style DIY trains and the few remaining Mike Mignola Monkey with a Gun sculptures. This booth is gonna be packed!

Be sure to stop by Booth 901 to say hello to Klim and Benny, and make sure to show up for the 1PM Saturday signing session with Angryblue!

Watch the DesignerCon 2016 TV Commercial

See all of you in Pasadena hopefully! Benny will be at the Bigshot Toyworks booth #901. Mark will be roaming around. More of our contributors might be there as well! Be sure to come find Benny at 901 if you think you'd like to contribute to this blog. We are always seeking new writers!

Watch the video below:

DCon Booth #818 - Juan Muniz

Juan Muniz brings a lot of new goodies to this year's DCon.  In the vinyl toy front, his new toy Smile, produced by 3DRetro, will debut in its OG colorway featuring the famous Felipe character, in a sitting posture (about 4'' tall) and holding a fake smile sign. This cute and heartbreaking little guy will be also sold in a very limited hand painted AP edition of 10 titled "Lil' Boy Blue", with a baby blue gradient paint work and a fancy glossy finish.  

A run of 20 custom 3'' Felipe Dunny figures was also teased on the artists Facebook page.

Finally, as this seems to be year-of-the-pin, Muniz designed a couple of awesome limited edition enamel pins, including a Felipe Switches pin and a Deadpool one. One of Muniz's pins will participate in the Pin Scavenger Hunt (collect six pins to get an exclusive DCon pin), so make sure to get one!

DCon Booth #1028 - Roman Cortez and HoniKoni

Designer Roman Cortez was hoping to have the awesome MC-D2 pieces available for Designer Con 2016, but issues have delayed the delivery and pushed back the timeline. Fear not, Roman will have pre-orders for MC-D2 open at Booth #1028 at Designer Con. Standing at 5" tall, MC-D2 is priced at $125 each. Roman is hoping to have these delivered to him by Thanksgiving weekend, so anyone who pre-orders one of these shiny little guys should have them in hand not too long after Designer Con. Designer Con attendees should stop by Booth #1028 and check out all the offerings Roman will have, as well as stuff from the colorful Honi Koni brand.

Instagram: @RomanCortez
Website: http://store.romancortez.com/
Website: http://www.honikoni.com/

- Mark-Anthony

DCon 2016 Booth #527 - Broke Piggy

It looks like the people over at Broke Piggy are going to try and make collectors go broke with all the customs they are teasing for Designer Con 2016. A special 8" Dunny Custom Exhibit, Toy Within a Toy, featuring works by The Bots, Scott Tolleson, Uamou and Jeremiah Ketner. If that wasn't enough, Broke Piggy also teamed up with artist MADL, for another custom exhibit, Bricked MADL. The Bricked MADL exhibit will feature Brick MADLs as a base and work by the following artists: MAD, Kano, Angry Woebots, Deph, Jesse Hernandez, Marka27, Scribe, and Sket One. If the exhibits weren't enough, Broke Piggy will have a limited amount of Pineapple Monsters by Black Seed Toys. Make sure to stop by the Broke Piggy Booth #527, as they hang out next to a booth featuring DrilOne, Leecifer and Scott Tolleson.

Website: http://www.brokepiggyinc.com/shop/
Instagram: @BrokePiggy

- Mark-Anthony

DCon 2016 Booth #128 - Colus

Artist Colus Havenga, or just Colus, has been hard at work finishing up his Jumper piece in time for Designer Con 2016. Situated at Booth #128, Colus will have six Jumper pieces available for purchase, which he's been teasing for weeks now. This piece started out as a digital sculpt, 3d printed, cleaned, cast and painted, all by Colus. It's definitely been a long 34 weeks or so, from Colus' initial digital sculpt tease posted on Instagram. It's a wonderful thing how digital sculpting and 3d printing can make thoughts into reality. No word on pricing yet as of yet, but maybe one of the toy manufacturers attending DCON will check it out and want to produce Jumper in a larger quantity than the handmade six. For those headed to Designer Con, be sure to stop by Colus' Booth #128 early, it's likely that all the Jumper pieces will hop away into waiting collections.

Jumper - Digital rendering(?) posted by Colus on Instagram, April 1, 2016

Instagram: @Colus
Website: http://www.colus.co/

- Mark-Anthony

DCON 2016 Booth #812 - DKE Toys, Second Batch of stuff

Designer Con 2016 is approaching fast and DKE sent over this latest batch of stuff that will be available at there Booth #812. Here is what DKE has to say:

DKE Toys does about 4 conventions a year in which artists from all over the world create limited artist edition figures. Each piece is generally made out of hand poured resin and many are hand painted on custom printed (and sometimes hand drawn) card backs. Sometimes as many as 20 different artists participate in a given show. Many have commented that the DKE booth at these various shows look like a small art exhibition. While these figures are generally referred to as "bootlegs" they are far from pirated versions of mass marketed toys. Each of these artists use transformative properties in their work to communicate ideas that are often political, parody, or commentary about the pop culture world we live in. Also please do not be confused by the word "toy". These are works of art!!! Do not give to a child to play with. They will break, get ruined, and hurt your children physically and emotionally. DKE also acquires other limited edition figures from artists that are not exclusives so please stop by to see any unannounced specials. Should pieces be left over after the show please email any wants or desires to dketoys@gmail.com and we will do the best we can to accommodate requests.

Omniscient Machinist by Green Plastic Tunnels
Green Plastic Tunnels is back with another release especially for DCon. The Omniscient Machinist stands at 3.75" tall and is hand cast in a multi colored cascade of resin. Affordably priced at $30 tax incl. Hand cast. Edition of 20

Instagram: @greenplastictunnels

greenplastictunnels.bigcartel.com

Bio: I am a 35 year old artist and elementary school art teacher based out of Baltimore MD. Inspirations for artwork range from arbitrary yet eye catching color palettes and forms found in commonplace structures and generic graphic design.

Brat Fink by by Manny X Romero - Iconoclast Toys
Manny X Romero has sold out every figure edition he has ever made. This one looks to be right on the mark as well. Brat Fink embodies our favorite 50s hot rod icon. $75 tax included. Hand cast and painted 3" carded Signed and numbered  edition of 40

Instagram: @artisdead

Illustration by @thrashbury

Poquito's Playhouse: Poquito y Pterrio by Janky Toys
In the grand Mexican bootleg tradition of Robert Cop and Spader-Man, Janky Toys is proud to announce his latest toy line, Poquito's Playhouse. Why, you may ask? Why the fuck not!!! What are you some sort of bigoted politician? $45 tax included. Hand cast and painted 3.75" carded figure. Signed and numbered edition of 20.

Instagram: @jankytoys

 Be sure to grab tickets for DCON 2016 ahead of time.

 - Mark-Anthony

DCon 2016 Booth #700 - Patrick Ballesteros

Patrick Ballesteros is going to be at Designer Con 2016, in Booth #700. It wouldn't be a convention if Patrick didn't bring an exclusive, which happens to be a print titled "Too Soon?". One of Patrick's latest prints in his 25 Cent Wonders series, "Too Soon?", features a character who was lost too soon in the show Stranger Things. Measuring in at 6"x8" with rounded edges, Patrick also has this print available as a canvas edition, limited to just 8 pieces, which can be pre-ordered now for pickup at Designer Con 2016. For those interested, email iwantyourart [at] gmail.com. Patrick will also have a plethora of other prints available for purchase, so stop on by and give him a chat.

Website: https://patrickballesterosart.threadless.com/

- Mark-Anthony

DCon 2016 Booth #204 - We Are Not Toys with a bunch of artists

After a bit of a quiet period, the collective We Are Not Toys are making a splash at Designer Con 2016. With resin pieces coming from a bunch of different artists, here is just a few items that have been teased by TaskOne and We Are Not Toys. The latest full release is Big Paw by Mike Fudge x We Are Not Toys. Be sure to follow We Are Not Toys on social media to see the latest full reveals as Designer Con 2016 draws near.

Brent Nolasco x We Are Not Toys - Resin Figure

Mike Mendez x We Are Not Toys - Resin Figure

JC Rivera x We Are Not Toys - Resin Figure

Riser13 x We Are Not Toys - Snailveillance Resin Figure

Angel Once x We Are Not Toys - Angry Elephant

Angel Once x We Are Not Toys - Angry Elephant

Josh Mayhem x We Are Not Toys - Blown Away

84Pages x We Are Not Toys - Resin Figure

We Are Not Toys
Angel Once
Josh Mayhem
Mike Fudge

JC Rivera

84Pages

Brent Nolasco
Mike "Nemo" Mendez
Riser13

- Mark-Anthony