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I Am Plastic

The Designer Toy Explosion

By Paul Budnitz

Hardcover | 9780810958463

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In barely a decade, the designer toy craze, which originated in Hong Kong, has taken the world by storm. Children and adults, celebrities and design aficionados now line up to pay anywhere from five dollars to thousands of dollars for these highly inventive designer creations.

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In barely a decade, the designer toy craze, which originated in Hong Kong, has taken the world by storm. Children and adults, celebrities and design aficionados now line up to pay anywhere from five dollars to thousands of dollars for these highly inventive designer creations.

I Am Plastic provides a colorful visual history of the phenomenon, which has energized not only the toy world but the global art community as well. Fashion designers, comic book artists, underground illustrators, graffiti and fine artists now lend their creativity to the task of coming up with innovative and striking new toy designs. Artists and toys featured in this stunning overview include Frank Kozik, Dalek, Gary Baseman, Bounty Hunter, Junko Mizuno, Jason Siu, Devilrobots, and Pete Fowler.

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  • Toy Story

    The (variously) one-eyed, one-horned, purple, red and green people eaters called Uglydolls are among the most successful of a new wave of vinyl, plastic and plush “designer toys.” Originally conceived by the New York design school graduates David Hor ... (read full critics)

    nytimes published on Sat, 18 Sep 2010

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Book Details

  • English Books
  • Hardcover 368 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 0810958465
  • ISBN-13: 9780810958463
  • Publisher: "Harry N. Abrams, Inc."
  • Pub date: Nov 01, 2006
  • Dimensions: 1742 mm x 1677 mm x 258 mm Just how big is that?
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