I Am Plastic: The Designer Toy Explosion | 
|  | | | Title: | I Am Plastic: The Designer Toy Explosion | | Author: | Paul Budnitz | | Publisher: | "Harry N. Abrams, Inc." | | Type: | Book / Hardcover | | Publication Date: | 01 November, 2006 | | ISBN / ISBN-13: | 0810958465 / 9780810958463 | | List Price: | $40.00 | | You Save: | $13.60 | | Amazon Price: | $26.40 | |
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Product Description
In barely a decade, the designer toy craze, which originated in Hong Kong, has taken the world by storm. Children and adults, celebrities and design aficionados now line up to pay anywhere from five dollars to thousands of dollars for these highly inventive designer creations.
I Am Plastic provides a colorful visual history of the phenomenon, which has energized not only the toy world but the global art community as well. Fashion designers, comic book artists, underground illustrators, graffiti and fine artists now lend their creativity to the task of coming up with innovative and striking new toy designs. Artists and toys featured in this stunning overview include Frank Kozik, Dalek, Gary Baseman, Bounty Hunter, Junko Mizuno, Jason Siu, Devilrobots, and Pete Fowler.
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Customer Reviews:
• Strange And Fascinating 26 December, 2007
This is one of those books that simply has to be seen to be believed - who would have thought that toys (yes, toys) could become a new artistic medium? Within "I Am Plastic" you'll find a wild and wonderful selection of toys from creators from across the globe, everything from evil cartoon characters and superdeformed abstractions to fantastically detailed and realized robots, gorillas, and others. Browsing through this volume I was reminded of the art in the book "The Art of Modern Rock: The Poster Explosion" - the artists and their art in each of these books seem to have the same feel, the same vibe and life to them: definitely non-conformist, and definitely imaginative, as though pop culture was put in a blender and the results painted on canvas or molded into plastic toys. Anyone interested in modern art would do well to give this book a look.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A3K1JFYC9KOVV5
• Great Visual Resource 03 December, 2007
This book has great images of toys from around the world. I bought it for a friend who is a graphic designer and she plans to use it as a visual reference for a childrens book she is illustrating.
- Reviewed by customer ID: AU7G36XVD2AZG
• Great Book 28 December, 2007
one of the best toy art books around, lots of designs, this book is a must have
- Reviewed by customer ID: A1QTVHMVG0YNW4
• I Am Plastic And Spare 02 June, 2008
I was hoping this book would give me a little insight into the world of the designer toy. Instead, I got a pictorial, not a book...not a word of explanation, just pictures of the various toys. Too bad - it would have been more enlightening if the author included even bullet descriptions of the provenance of such toys: why are they called designer toys, when did this phenomenon start, where is it a craze, will it continue to be a craze and what makes one toy a hit and one not. This short review has more words than you'll ever read in the book.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A21Z6YFDTI678W
• Great One For Any Collector 26 June, 2008
This is a very very good book for any vinyl lover or collector, It's got so many examples shown. Only thing I would have liked better is more detail on many of the vinyls listed. This book is mostly pictures with only just a lil info on each. It would have been nice to have more info on many of them but still overall a wonderful book.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A20IRC090XHLS6
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