I Am Plastic: The Designer Toy Explosion - Hardcover

Budnitz, Paul

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0810958465 ISBN 13: 9780810958463

Publisher: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2006

Synopsis

"I Am Plastic" is a survey of the vinyl toy craze that began in Hong Kong in 1996 and quickly spread across the Far East to Europe and the United States. Beginning with urban vinyl artists, the phenomenon has taken root not only in the toy world but also in the global art community. Created by fashion designers, comic book artists, underground illustrators, graffiti artists and fine artists, these toys have a hot collector's market and range in price from five pounds to thousands of pounds. With kids, parents, celebrities and design aficionados hooked, the designer toy phenomenon is only going to get bigger. Artists and toys featured include: Frank Kozik, Dalek, Gary Baseman, Bounty Hunter, Junko Mizuno, Jason Siu, Pete Fowler, Maywa Denki, Nagoya Twim, Nathan Jurevicius, David Horvath and Sun-Min Kim, Run DMC dolls, Kubricks, Qees, The King of New York and Gloomy Bears.

About this title

Product Description:

Unusual book

Review:

Number 6 in the 10 Best Coffee Table Books:
"For the
man-child with lots of cash, Japanese designer toys have become a global
phenomenon. This beautiful tome catalogues the best. Display it beside your
Millennium Falcon model". -- The Independent Online

About this edition

• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0810958465
• ISBN 13: 9780810958463
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 367