Collecting art toys is something that I enjoy. In today’s post a quick Look at the creativity of Emilio Garcia.
Over the years, I have collected art toys made by incredibly innovative folks around the world. A significant part for me experiencing the artists’ creativity, as well as their generous sharing of their creations. One of the artists whose works I have been lucky enough to collect is Emilio Garcia.
The Jumping Brain is one of Emilio’s early signature creations, which combines the aesthetics of the human brain and a frog. In this image you get to experience a number of them…
Council of Jumping Brains
I set up and captured this shot in 2012 to highlight the 12 Months 12 Colors set. This set was released starting on March 14, 2011, with the first three colors. Each following month saw the release of the next color way. As I was lucky enough to garner the complete set, it was fun to put together an homage to Emilio’s creativity!
I’m curious to learn more about what you might collect and photograph.
As you may remember from a prior post, I have a collection of art toys, some of which are small production runs or even custom one-of-a-kinds, and all of which are just simply fantastic! Today, I’d like to introduce you to another interesting creation: the Tube Dunny…
Outland Red Tube Dunny
The Dunny is an art toy platform created by Kidrobot, which has been customized by many artists in very creative ways. In my mind, one of the finest custom Dunny creations is the Tubedunny created by VISEone. Above you see one of my photos of the Outland Red Tubedunny, which was a very limited run done for the Outland Designer Toy Store & Art Gallery in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
The creative mind behind the Tubedunny is the German urban artist known as VISEeone, who is best known for his lowbrow custom designs of urban vinyl toys, as well as crossing over to influential design media like Notcot and Design You Trust.
His works – owned by international collectors – have been shown around the world.
VISEone started his creative path in the late 1990’s as a graffiti writer creating character designs. Due a musical career as a national booked hiphop DJ and producer with a major record deal he took a 10 years break from painting before he stepped back to his creative path in 2007 when he discovered the urban vinyl scene.
Since then he constantly created unique custom works on vinyl platform toys and released several limited editions of his iconic style.
VISEone is best known for his dripping style where he combines his graffiti roots and his love of lowbrow design. He also has a big passion for comics which influenced him heavily for his well known “Comic Stripped” custom series.
He belongs to the top designers in the urban vinyl scene and his works are all sold out and sought after.
VISEone with Mini Tube Monster
A couple of years ago, I had the pleasure of doing a quick photoshoot with VISEone and his then latest creation, the Mini Tube Monster (that’s a Zombie juice model in his hand). We did the photoshoot at New York Comic Con, where I set up a quick light couple of lights and created some cool images.
VISEone’s latest creative endeavors have been wildly successful sculptures that are often life-sized and sought after by collectors around the globe; a truly amazing artist!
