Otis Toy Design

Just when I thought everyone had used and abused the Mickey Mouse image in every way imaginable - I wake up one day and see ….

…apparently as the former Soviet state of Georgia is collapsing, under a mass of riot-cops, the standard issue of police riot gear includes the bizarre Mickey Mouse gas mask.

I can hear Walt turning over in his grave right now.

Just when you think you have seen everything, especially when it comes to toys, along comes the Hello Ktty  assault rifle! Read more about here if you just have to have one!

Check out this amazing R2D2 and read more here.

There’s a great show starting October 6th at the LATD Museum. One of the artists with work in the exhibit is Tim Biskup. He’s an artist I’ve written about before on this blog and does some fun stuff that is well worth the time of any Toy Designer!

Take a look at these fullpage advertisements done by Lego.

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Knitted doll of The Fantastic Four’s The Thing.

Deviant Art’s billybob884 created this masterful, incredibly detailed papercraft model of Halo’s Master Chief, and included the source-files to make your own. For instructions go here.

Yesterday I went down to the LA Convention Center to check out the Wired NextFest Show.Of course, I always keep my eyes open for interactive web ideas and toy design.

There were many interesting and concept provoking exhibits from people exploring technology. Some were a bit dry, to say the least, but there were seeds of ideas there that get the creative minds thinking.

One exhibit explored the area of interactive story telling. The web address for additional graphics and explanation of the process can be found at www.txtualhealing.com . Here’s one panel from the web site. This might also be an interesting way to approach an interactive web comic. You just have to write the story and create the art for the panels!! Think about it…

…then you ought to check out the new Integrated Learning course, Comic Heroes: 2D to 3D, being taught this Fall 2007 term here at Otis College of Art and Design.