TOKYOPLASTIC

KITTEH KITEH, Tuesday 16 March

'KITTEH KITTEH - Tokyoplastic'

"My balls didn't dropped during puberty, but then I saw Kitteh Kitteh and then they did drop"The genius creators behind TOKYOPLASTIC gave birth to a new hero.The first two shorts in a serie of six are brought to your screen already.The dutch premier of all of them will be at PLAYROUNDS 2010. Check out and stay tuned for more: http://www.kittehkitteh.com

Genevieve Gauckler

character design, Friday 05 March

Genevieve Gauckler´s wonderful world, on view at http://www.g2works.com/homepage.html 

Playmobil street art

Rio de Janeiro, Friday 05 March

Retro character design in Rio de Janeiro, photography by Rodrigo Pereira.

Blank Canvas

3D paperart poster, Saturday 13 February

Leo Rosa Borges created this scary 3D poster monster, Blank Canvas, currently on display at The Jam Jar gallery in Dubai. His mission: "We found that many people feel an initial hesitation or discomfort when faced with a blank page. In order to exaggerate the illogical nature of this fear, we created scary monsters in blank canvases and hung them up as posters. We wanted to introduce people to The Jam Jar - a do-it-yourself painting studio with a mission to bring art to the community. We had to do this on close to zero budget."  More photo's at http://www.behance.net/Gallery/Blank-Canvas-posters/416021

Crouching digital tigers celebrate Chinese new year

Sydney, Saturday 13 February

"Two giant digital origami tigers will playfully celebrate Chinese New Year on the forecourt of Customs House, Sydney from 11 February – 14 March 2010. Giant digital origami tigers fuse ancient lantern making methods with cutting edge design and fabrication technology, bringing tradition and innovation, east and west together. Commissioned by Customs House to raise awareness about the endangered status of tigers in this the Year of the Tiger, the crouching tigers were designed by multinational architectural practice LAVA. The crouching tigers are inspired by “zhezhi”, Chinese for paper folding (more popularly known by its Japanese name “origami”) and are the size of a truck at 2.5 metres high and 7 metres long, yet weigh only 200kgs. Made of fully recyclable materials, aluminium and barrisol, the big cats are brought to life with low energy LED lighting."By LAVA

Parra's Popfruit

Fantastic sculpture by Parra, Popfruit, who's represented by Toykyo Productions (BE).

Minimmo

papertoy travels around the world, Saturday 30 January

'Minimmo in Kuala Lumpur - Malaysia'

The papertoy Minimmo is travelling around the globe, and starts to get commercial. Minimmo is also popular as a DIY. More info and a pdf to download your own at http://www.minimimmo.com/.

Jean Julien

character design and animation, Saturday 30 January

'Toys'

French graphic designer Jean Julien has a very distinctive style and makes a lot of different works, like animations, posters, wooden animals, books and clothes: http://www.jeanjullien.com/index.php?page=work 

Mcbess

Matthieu Bessudo(Germany) aka Mcbess is an interesting designer and director, with a funny blog. Go to http://www.mcbess.com/

Create your own instant urban characters

Get a flyer and go stick ´m!, Wednesday 26 August

'Many characters have already been created, beware....'

Instant characters?!Playgrounds Festival has spread many stickerflyers, with facial elements to create your own characters wherever (!) you want. Go stick ´m and upload photos of the result to Flickr. The best ones win free festival tickets.....