Art Toy Culture 2015


Launched today at Dongdaemun Design Plaza in Seoul, Korea, is the 2nd annual Art Toy Culture 2015 (April 17-19) - with this post a quick glance at what's piqued my interests (and what was readily spotted on my social media streams & ATC Facebook :p). Check out www.arttoyculture.com for more, of course :)


Singapore-based resin-slinger Daniel Yu's display set up sees a number of new sculpts and existing ones (I have been featuring) where he is sharing with Fanny Kao (I featured her "The Acrons" family which debuts at ATC!). Shown above-right is a sculpt by Cacooca, who is as well on show this year again (pic below) at booth D12.





Skull Man / 13ART will also feature his custom skulls and EGGIMP … and will his yummy multicolored skulls make an appearance too?


Interestingly, quite a number of Hong Kong designers have also ventured into Korea this year as well, including Jason Siu (who has original drawings for sale / shown above), and as well Eric So, who will be launching his "BIGBANG" series, alonsige KRUNK's new art toy 'SPACEMAN'.




Paul Leung's The Big-Addict will also make an appearance with two 1/6th exclusives. Always fun to see my 1/6-scale "heroes" make appearances anywhere haha


Personally, Korea is now a hotbed of art toy-ness, with rising stars and a design aesthetic that stands strong on both character and lifestyle design, with a distinct polished product as well, while still remaining "indie", IMHO. Very inspiring, to be sure! Here's a glance at some of the at ATC2015:


Uptempo Lee of Hands in Factory collabos with KIDDO to release a BABY HORNS S.2 Special Edition - with this tattooed DayWraith limited to 200pcs and priced at US73$ (USD) / 73,000 won (hotdam i want this OMG but cannot afford ~ FML).


I am intrigued with the delitoys collabo with DEVILROBOTS with their ouip - I remember first blogging about delitoys back in 2008, when it was the first ever art toy concept out of Korean, which for me started the phase in that part of the world, for me anyways … we've totally lost touch since, but I am elated to see their works continue!


A group which I find extremely interesting is TOWOOZ - a collective of 9 x artists - featuring AJO777, MAD MED, NOEL ROH, JYELLOWEEN, SLOWWALKER, LO-FI, C.BERNINI, JOPA, E.GU29 (in different fields, such as figure, graphic, illustration, etc.)

I would've loved to know more about their works, including AJO777's "Rony The Peculiar", NOEL ROH and JiHye Park AKA JYELLOWEEN - whose "Oscar" is shown below = ADO-RABLE!


Another name I will be looking out for is UMBERRABBIT, with his fascinating cojoined-twin character figures, in glorious macabre design aesthetics!

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