The Timbur Rattle fuses hi-tech manufacturing with traditional woodcraft. Made of sustainable materials and non-toxic finishes. Via fawn&forest.

Touma - mixi-bang! Knuckle Bear Exclusive Revealed

WIRED.com and WIRED Magazine have lauched their Holiday Store and guess what: its AWESOME

FEATUREDMoss in association with Edelman Arts presents Remains by Cathy McClure ~ she deconstructs robotic animal toys ~ recasts the pieces in bronze and reconstructs it... see all the creatures!

The Gorrinucha piggy bank was designed by Milrayas & Ceramics San Gines for a contest in Spain. Originally it was never planned to put it into production, but the demand has been so high that they are getting a batch ready for Christmas.

FEATUREDMaking of the adorable Brain Pattern Egg Qee - hand painted by Emilio Garcia

Workers from the Milan design firm "Office" have an Architect's Party and everyone's invited! What you see above you is one of the bits of design art included in the show - just nails and thread and a lot of patience!

Toying with Art is an exhibition at the Cameron Art Museum. More than 50 artists from around the country have designed and fabricated toys in a wide variety of sizes, themes and styles for this exhibition.

Ever play Tetris? Of course you have! Ever play Tetris on Arduino? No way! What's that? It's an open-source electronics prototyping platform which allows you to do basically ANYTHING like... say... make Tetris more like Dance Dance Revolution? Yes!

"Strangers in a Strange Land." Macro photography transforms an old children's board game into surreal landscapes.

Customize your computer keyboard with this pictoral alphabet keyboard sticker set. Great for kids and adults!

TRX - Handmade wooden toy. Designed by zuchna.

Hommu minni launch the ‘learning’ collection: Eco-chic wall stickers that help your little ones learn, for example, the animals.

Kid Robot unveils their new Munnies at a SoHo art exhibit today, including this cutie from BukuBuku!

Illustrator Tizieu and toy galley Le Lab have recently collaborated to create a limited edition of designer toys.

Here are 25 classic scenes from various retro games from ‘duck hunt’ to “Donkey Kong” which have been recreated in detailed paper crafted form.

Brooklyn 5 and 10 has stunning Motif Cubes ~ great desk/coffee table gift!

This is a web comic made entirely by an old industrial robot that finds basic geometric shapes that IT draws funny and full of human-like expressions.

Mambajamba is a new kind of animal cracker that pairs two fun flavors, like cinnamon and honey together in one box!

Shawnimals' Winter Ninja!

FEATUREDVacu Vin Glass Markers - Party People!!! These are adorable mini silicon suction cup creatures to mark glasses during your next party! Even cuter in person than i imagined!

Fun MICHAEL LAU X DE LA BARRACUDA toy

These amazingly fine works were created by experienced sculptors who usually produce traditional Buddha statues.

Tokyo based artist Yukako Tanaka created this awesome hollowed out Munny.

FEATUREDMeet Crtl C! Just discovered some of the Brio Network collection toys in person! They are even more adorable and now there is series 1 and 1.5 ~ take a look at the whole line! Email, Search, etc as wood toys!

The "Type Chess Set" was created out of an old type tray and blocks of type. Each piece hand carved and represented by the first letter in their name! And even colored in black and white by the residue of ink left on top of the type.

FEATUREDBrio's My Very First collection has some adorable toys for those shopping for new borns... i'm smitten with the awesome walrus! and flying bunny (which can also come with a cell phone!)

Tixindos, toy series concept by the graphic design team of Tixinda Mexico.

Executive Elite Marshmallow Blaster - wow. just wow. This version of the mallow blaster is a neiman marcus exclusive for all of those execs who need to have some more fun- hilarious faux carbon fiber + briefcase

After spending almost a good year roaming the streets of Venice for Venice Biennale 2008, the Zeth Stretched Cruiser is finally for sale.

Italy's own toy designer Filippo Perin has recently created these paper toys.

The House Industries "Type as Object" Exhibition and Pop-Up Shop is currently up at the Type Directors Club in NYC...

Skittles are even more fun when they look like fireman and ride around in a truck, like these ones from Flora + Henri.

Suck UK Reusable Shopping Character Bag ~ no it's not just another reusable bag that you can shove into a pouch... depending how you pull pieces out of the pouch you can invent your own creatures!

A behind the scenes look at Trek Bicycle's design studio in Wisconsin

Irreverent custom-toy maker Sucklord just released a limited edition series of collectible trading cards called "Suckpax." Included in one of the packs is a Golden Ticket that awards the lucky finder a one-of-a-kind custom toy designed by the man himself.

Rosa is a well designed modern rocking horse version.

Remember getting your first Nintendo? Check out the 1988 expose' on the "new" NES, and their "command center" where you could get game tips!

Terrytoy - photographer Terry Richardson got turned into a collectible toy.

I love the Convert-O-Bike over at DWR. It changes with your child from tricycle to bicycle!

What do you do with an old Vespa motorcycle? Turn it into a Vespa Rocking Horse of course.

Dr. Romanelli remixes the iconic Hello Kitty characters and gives it the Anatomy look.

UNICEF sent a package to supporters asking to turn soldiers back into children. A familiar pack of plastic toy soldiers was sent out as a piece of direct mail.

the lego book is dope. it showcases all of their products with some cool write ups

FEATUREDRocket World's Ronin Softshell Jacket ~ close up ~ high quality understated tactical fashions that are over designed to a gorgeously functional simplicity ~ and come with IWG toys!!!

Exclusively at Tower Records and available only in Japan, limited run by Orange Train ¥ 7,200, Uchiyamada-kun is exclusively designed for the mega music store by world renowned Japanese animator Hideyasu Moto.

The Splitterbot is a cute little faux-bot that shares music from an mp3 player between two earphones.

the ‘Happy Fish’ toy. Jose Sabat [Editor's Note: Admit it. You're grinning too, aren't you? I am.]

FERG - CHIPP S003 [Halloween Skelsuit] drops today! And it's adorably glowy!

For the 35th anniversary of Hello Kitty, Sanrio has put together an overly cute animated promo showing Hello Kitty's evolution through the decades....

FEATUREDBeautiful simple minimalist wooden owls by Matt Pugh ~ and stunning with so may options for that splash of color...

Your favorite pop culture icons have been created in LEGO, just like Jules and Vincent above, from Pulp Fiction. Chewbacca, Batman and the crew from Big Lewbowski are all present.

Coarsetoys vinyl toys have colorful, well-detailed packaging.

Kiddi Moto from the UK builds wooden balance bikes with the look of superbikes, scramblers, choppers and scooters.

Stone Love Egg Set - So discreetly pretty. "The use of a stone or Jade Egg to strengthen the vagina is a practice that evolved in ancient China. The secret of this practice remained in the Royal Palace and was only taught to the Queen and concubines."

Polyghost is an alternate 3D digital experience where the most sought after vinyl figures come to life on the iPhone and iPod Touch.

Karl Lagerfeld gets turned into a collectible figure by Tokidoki.

Get inside that which you were never meant to see! Peek now at the new set of illustrative anatomies of toys by designer Jason Freeny!

Download your very own paper Brett and Jemaine, along with Jemaine's amp, and recreate your favourite scenes from the funniest accapella digi-bongo comedy out there!

love love love Momocreatura's wearable miniatures.

A recycled set of wheels and an old pub sign light creates this lovely little lamp, 'Albie' by JamesPlumb.

Print your own Vandercook Proof Press... Papercraft letterpress for everyone!

Courtesy of Baltimore Print Studios.

A round up of the coolest designer wooden blocks on the market! From Alexander Girard to Naef, these will have you playing with building blocks no matter what your age!

Inspector Cumulus! So cute - so pensive - from Crazy Label x Jonathan Edwards

Lene Dragon creates painstakingly detailed miniatures of modern home furnishings, like this Barcelona Couch.

Yearbook Yourself is now and iPhone app. See funny pictures of yourself throughout the years.

Touma's all new "Little Tricksters" Series 1 is almost coming out. Great pics from the designs via VinylPulse

If you are lucky, you will get one of these invites to the upcoming Michael Lau Gardener 10th Exhibition in Los Angeles.

Mimushi presents the Series 1 wooden figures, each of which is hand-crafted and one-of-a-kind. The environmentally-friendly figures use all natural materials to create a truly unique collectible character series.

Cardboard furniture elements. Cool way to set up fairs, exhibitions, low cost and environmental friendly showrooms.

Get your official Lego 2010 calendar - all proceeds go to charity

From Singapore, a very cute campaign (in a "Tim Burton" sort of cuteness) for Play Doh. Several ads featuring normally "dangerous" things, remind parents of how safe it's to play with it!

Trevor Brown, international grotesque painter extraordinaire, has just what you need for this years weird fashion scene: the Silver Spiked Pacifier Pendant.

Amazing new pair of toys by Joe Ledbetter, with some articulation.

Chicago's 826CHI non-profit tutoring center, founded by writer Dave Eggers, just released their online store "Not A Secret Agent Store." Not only an amazing website, but the gadgets available are for the true secret agent.

Perhaps my favorite Hello Kitty figure yet - Hello Kitty x Caperino & Peperone Figure - as hello kitty mania runs rampant, love that cap and pep only appear when glowing in the dark!

Spiki "Game of Death" Edition by Nakanari - Limited Edition of 100 - Comes with the 2 Shurikens and Sword - Produced by Kuso Vinyl

FEATUREDCrazy eyed bear wielding a spork? Beware! Check out the Rocket World T.A.D. Griz Lee Bear ~ so cute, so lost, so harmless? Or is he? Definitely adorably packaged though...

Video teaser for Gestalten’s upcoming book, "Papercraft: Design and Art with Paper." From playful and whimsical to downright painstaking, paper is resurging among young artists as an experimental material for design.

Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin presents artist Takashi Murakami's newest solo show "Self Portraits" featuring three monumental works, two films, and five sculptures including four Kanye West bears. One each: gold, bronze, silver, and full-color.

Brooklyn designer, David Weeks, has given Dunny a wooden revamp, christened the “Chiseler.” Modeled after Hanno the Gorilla, the ultra-exclusive Chiseler (only five) is hand-hewn and sanded from zebra-striped hard pine

A round up of the coolest 30 coloring books for grown-ups or designers. From Indie Rock and Gangsta Rap to Adult Erotica, Religious Satire and even interior decor. Various publishers, but all affordable and fun!

Gitta Gschwendtner's Wedge Racer Door Stops... although i'm not sure how you could resist pulling this out from under the door to play with!

James May and volunteers are building a life-size house from Legos in the UK, which May plans to live in after its completion [for a few days].

Brilliant! Functional V8 engine out of LEGOs.

Marc Vidal's adorable puzzles and toys include a deck of French optical illusions, how to make shadow puppets, and after dinner games.

Paul Smith has just launched a Keith Haring orange wooden domino set printed with colourful pop art characters.

Just finished up Earl Grey and Sencha for Toy Karma 2 at rotofugi in Chicago. show centers of Japanese toys and art

so excited about sanrio teaming up w/mimoco to release usb drives for hello kitty's 35th anniversary!

Hoot Nanny! its like a retro spirograph ~ with very fun pics and packaging!

Jenga Pistol. It shoots... blocks!

ROBOX; a series of 9 storage boxes that can turn into giant robot in no time

Is resin the new vinyl?By using resin artists are now able to create their own small run of art toys. Golden Delicious pictured is limited to just 5.

Camera with body made out of recycled paper. Concept by Amos Woo and Sharon Ng.

Cool - Makedo is a building kit that lets you make things from whatever "found" materials you may have lying around.

22 year-old, Romanian designer István Vasil presents Paper Hills – a paper sculpture for an art book accompanying the snowboard movie, Jolly Rogers. Produced by Pirate Movie Productions.

A real katana made of laminated carbon fiber and titanium+carbide blade. Light and deadly.

The combat edition P120 Fighter from America's highest-profile luxury motorcylce brand, Confederate, will surely turn heads. Production has been limited to only 120 bikes

The new Luxurious Monster Rugs are now available to order from the Stitches and Glue Store.

The Indie Rock Coloring Book From Andy J. Miller and the Yellow Bird Project published by Chronicle - all the proceeds go to charity! Contributors include; Rilo Kiley, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, MGMT, Bon Iver and The Shins.

Urban Outfitters brings back the Polaroid Camera together with The Impossible Project.

I must have these awesome little Futurama figurines. So cute! [Editor's Note: we've shown you pics before, but this shows some secret characters too!]

Philippe Starck has released his latest creation and it's stunning, a 215 foot yacht named the Wedge Too.

Audio d-touch is a collection of applications for real-time musical composition and performance. It is the first tangible interface fully and freely available for download.

Playbox is the perfect mix of storage space and an indoor ride.

Stitch Blue + Pink Eye APs! From pocket full of monsters

The space-boyscout in Tom Sachs got together with the designer in Tom Sachs and they crafted together their very own super-official NASA shotgun.

The Brooklyn based Furry Puppet Studio has launched its new website, and with it, a new approach to classic puppet building that promises to transform industry standards.

NOT A TOY! The DORYU 2-16 Pistol Camera is definitely not a toy. It's 16mm police issue.

Was it a new iPhone app? an iPhone case? Turns out it's a set of playing cards! Available at Meninos.

Stay is a new game from Anthropophagy for the iPhone & iPod Touch. See what happens when graphic designers fancy themselves iPhone developers.

Alexander Girard was so smitten with Marilyn Neuhart’s dolls that he asked her to make 100 for the 1961 opening of his Textile & Objects store. House Industries has asked Marilyn to create four new designs.

Kid Robot revealed their holiday collection yesterday, marking the first time we get to see the new stuff for 2010!

dci - just released these great "classic chalks" based on the classic orders in Greek architecture -designed by ken goldman

Project Squadt's Nozzel S2 'Launch Party'. 200 pcs - 6” vinyl figure. includes 2 sets of arms, RPG, sMP5 machine gun, suit and removable helmet

Discover the Genesis of Making Love with Luxury Sex Toys. One for each day that God created....7 in all.

The new metallic Qee series from Toy2R definitely look like mini Jeff Koons sculptures.

Remember barrel organs and their perforated cards ?
Here they go again !
A musical interface experiment.
Have fun !

Spread the love with momiji dolls. So Kawaii!

Artist David Lanham's amazing new toy, Bill the Yeti!

What's better than a Dyson vacuum cleaner? A Dyson tricycle. That's what I'm rollin about.

A 26000 fine-stone encrusted collection of everyday objects in the mouth of a mushroom-tripping-cartoon called "Simple Things" - made by Artist Takashi Murakami and musician Pharrell Williams. [see also #22334]

This game is so addicting that you will hate it! :) Simple concept but still challenging with a lot of space to build up strategies and tactics. Whether you have 1 minute or 30, Aqua Globs can keep you blissfully absorbed.

FEATUREDSDCC 09 - Rocketworld! Showing almost a full booth of newness ~ there is even silver jewelry, stickers, letterpress, plushes for kids, new IWG characters, and more!

Augmented Reality, Particle Beam by James Alliban.

Fans of plush and Star Wars should run, not walk to the ongoing Stitch Wars exhibition in Lauderhill, Florida; you’ll see everything from Wookie Cookies to “invertible” Tauntaun.

FEATUREDSDDC 09 ~ a look at some of the great new series over at KidRobot ~ from stumpy futuramas to junko mizuno to the rolling stock!

FEATUREDon fun booth design at SDCC ~ i love how much can be done with understated cardboard and markers ~ recession/hobo chic booth by Dumbrella ~ and lots of fun goodies too

FEATUREDSDCC 09 ~ A hands on look at Andrew Bell's amazing new O-No Food Company Sushi toys. Even cuter in person. I even tried to attach them back on...

Plamodel DIY 35mm camera from Superheadz. Snap out the parts and put it together like the modelig kits. A great way to learn everything how a camera works.

Military inspired I.W.G. customs by DrilOne available at SDCC Rocketworld booth 4932.

The Vinyl Frontier movie ~ sneak preview at comicon saturday night ~ see you there!

The grotesque yet strangely cutie-pie monsters of Chris Ryniak.

SHAG will be on hand for a special meet & greet and signing opportunity as we celebrate the release of his "Haunted Mansion" inspired artwork created in commemoration of the 40th Anniversary of the Haunted Mansion.

This incredible work from mexican artist Dr. Morbito is a real mix between tradition and pop culture. It’s all there. An amazing way to explain the mexican wrestling phenomenon.

MDF bird toys by Our children’s gorilla. Their line is innovative, original, fun, creative and simply functional. They encourage creativity and imagination and they strive to produce timeless classics with a sense of humour.

Amazing what matching colors can do for an instant set - MINDstyle second anniversary box set will launch at SDCC - 5 glossy b/w versions of their most sought after mini-figs

Awesome RATATA gun-built of 11 wooden pieces, this intriguing toy when put together form a real-life dimension machine gun. From Dutch designer Tomm Velthuis.

FEATUREDMa Me Pa ~ sustainable wooden turtle pull toys hand made in india! Also adorably, simply packaged! See the video of how mesmerizing they are when they roll!

A total dinosaur stampede at the graduation show of designer Stina Johansson!

check out this brilliant rocking horse by german designer Felix Goetze

Ride on Zuequito ... comes with a free ticket to the land of imagination! Made of recycled wood, it´s an environmentally responsible choice!

Spherical robot by Nils Völker. A ball-shaped robot on the base of a Lego Mindstorms NXT. It can move in any direction by turning it's internal mass, remote controlled via bluetooth with a second NXT.

Check out the colorful DIY Tubii papertoys from Bryan Rollins. Ready for download.