Toy links tagged "designer"
Thunderstruck.
“Who would’ve known that I would end up designing G.I. Joe toys years later.”
Transformers designer Hasui Shogo interviewed.
“Eric Siebenaler, a designer from Hasbro, and I worked together; I made some suggestions, and he always replied with encouragement and his own ideas. Hasbro and we had not communicated like this during a development of Transformers before.” (See also.)
Toy developer Q&A.
“I have a BA in Art History and Classical Languages with two minors in Philosophy and Medieval Studies…and two Masters degrees – one in Latin and the other in Computer Science with a concentration in AI design. I got into it by saying….I want to make toys!”
“It’s the sickest toy I’ve ever seen …”
“I want to show what it does, where it came from, what’s behind it … I want to put a personal story behind it and show people the passion I have for it.”
Freelance sculptor David Silva’s gallery.
“As an only-child in a single parent home, it didn’t take long for David Silva to find his two passions in life- art and toys. Drawing everything from dinosaurs to robots David found inspiration in toys, cartoons, and comic books. A few decades later not much has changed.”
Transformers designer Yuki Hisashi interviewed.
“When we started (with ROTF toy development), the rise of the crude oil price was at its worst. Also to make the re-creation of the robot mode easier, I was not able to allocate many parts to the vehicle mode.” (See also.)
MAXx FX. [via]
“Who is MAXx FX? He’s an 11 ½" fully articulated action figure, capable of assuming a multitude of fantastic identities through the magic and illusion of Make-Up and Special Effects.”
Louis Marx: the toy king.
“In 1928 Marx got the greatest idea in toydom’s history. Rounding a corner in Los Angeles one day, he stopped to watch a Filipino whittle away at a circular block of wood, attach it to a string and then bounce the block up and down the string, as his fellow-countrymen had been doing for as long as anyone could remember.” A Time article from 1955.
Josh Nizzi profiled.
“For a guy that posted an image on the Internet to [become] someone who ended up designing some of the main characters in the movie. … I can’t imagine that’s happened too many times …”