In 1998, London artist James Jarvis created the doll image "Martin" and set up a creative company Amos to launch all kinds of enamel dolls to connect toys with trend culture, which caused a sensation at that time; Now, the doll collection boom set off by kaws constantly presents the image he created with such a carrier, endows art with commercial attributes and creates popularity to guide consumption, and BE@RBRICK Countless cross-border joint names. This reflects the new thinking mode of "consumer art" of young groups. Artists cross different fields such as graffiti, street, fashion or music. Their dolls or ornaments are becoming more and more popular at affordable prices and themes close to young people's lives.

The annual art and design event held in Southern California is also the carnival of the Toy Festival - designercon. The "VINYL TOY network" integrates sculpture, toys, clothing, prints and other contents. Toys and ornaments themselves are endowed with meaning by art and design ideas and attract a large number of audiences. Designercon, which has just concluded this year, has even reached 700 suppliers and more than 300 artists. The relationship between street art, trend culture and doll toys and design ornaments has become more and more profound, and artists have gained more fans and attention. Today, let's take stock of the artists' co branded dolls or ornaments that deserve attention recently?

Steven Harrington x Quasimoto

Steven Harrington is an artist from Los Angeles. His works are full of vitality and vitality, but without losing cultural heritage. Steven Harrington's more classic works are the coconut tree named "Hello Mello" and the cartoon image of "dog Mello", which are sought after by many young people. Therefore, he has also been favored by brands such as Nike, Coca Cola, beats, IKEA, Micsoft, kiss and so on. Recently, Steven Harrington collaborated with madgibs, which is composed of American rapper Freddie Gibbs and producer madlib. Inspired by madlib's virtual character "quasimoto", he created a doll that can replace props, including Freddie Gibbs's "zebra" mask, sunglasses and chains, This doll with rich details and extraordinary significance is only limited to 400 models.

Kongshanji x 2G Tokyo

Konyamaki, a Japanese national treasure artist, was born on February 22, 1974. He showed a crazy love for painting since childhood. Konyamaki in high school was fascinated by collecting pictures of Playboy magazine or pavilion girls and learned to copy books and newspapers. In 1967, konyamaki saw the enrollment information of Tokyo central art school and "entrance examination free", which moved konyamaki. So konyamaki embarked on the road of art. In his works, we can see the body with sci-fi metal texture. As early as the 1990s, Kongshan base cooperated with Sony on the robot dog Aibo. In recent years, the cross-border with fashion and trend brands has attracted more attention. Recently, konyamaki and Tokyo Art Gallery 2G Tokyo launched a limited BE@RBRICK The doll is divided into two sizes: 100% and 400%. The transparent main body is used in the design, and the color matching uses the iconic metallic silver of kongshanji, with gold decorative details. The front of the doll is printed with the word "2G" logo. It is a doll with collection value and aesthetic decoration.

Kenny Scharf x Peanuts x APPortfolio

Kenny Scharf is a famous street artist. Most of his works are based on classic American TV cartoon images and things that can be seen everywhere in daily life. Unlike other surrealist paintings, Kenny Scharf's works are full of bright colors and a pleasant affinity. Recently, Kenny Scharf, peanauts global artist collective and apportfolio launched a limited edition doll, which is based on the cartoon characters of "Charlie Brown" and adopts very psychedelic colors, and launched two versions. One is made of enamel and resin, with a height of 30cm; The other is made of FRP material, with a height of 120 cm.

Futura x Dover Street Market

Futura, a graffiti artist, was recognized as "Wildstyle rocking subway king of New York" after the publication of the classic culture Book subway art in the 1980s. Futura, as the first pioneer to combine graffiti art with abstract art, as well as the first batch of cross-border cooperation with music and bring street art into the art museum, has influenced a batch of young creators in the industry. He also has many classic doll designs, "point man" is one of them. This time, in order to celebrate the 15th anniversary of Dover street market's first store in London, the two sides created a new joint name based on Futura's fl-001. The doll is 47cm high and black to match the pace of Dover street market's 15th anniversary.

Ron English x D*Face

Ron English, a famous pop and street artist, was born in Texas in 1959. His creative features always have the logic of academic reasoning of the orthodox Art College and the subversive and critical spirit of anti system in street art. Ron English was famous for spoofing American street billboards in his early days. At that time, Texas was full of automobile culture and billboards everywhere, which gave birth to this idea; Ron English is also good at painting, creating a highly realistic surreal composition full of Psychedelic atmosphere; In addition, the most familiar work of Ron English is the doll with grinning heads and cartoon characters. The doll jointly launched with Ron English British street artist d * face on designercon 2019 continues the logo images of both sides. The "head" of the former is integrated with the "Balloon Dog" of the latter. The doll is 15 cm high, mainly in gold and silver, and connects the pyramid base and main body with a transparent column, showing the appearance of floating in the air.

Verdy x MEET PROJECT Exclusive Collaboration

Verdy grew up in Osaka and now lives in Tokyo. He is a hot graphic designer and street artist. In 2008, I established VK design with my friends to design underground parties, music festivals and skateboarding brands, and then cooperated with some famous street brands, such as bounty hunter and midnight studios, which attracted more and more attention. Verdy's design takes hard core and punk culture as the starting point, and integrates highly recognizable slogans with graphic design. Then, the brand girls don't cry became popular through the top bodies of major stars in Japan and the praise of local skaters and youth groups in Tokyo. Last month, the creative unit Allrights reserved's creative project meet__ project came to Verdy for cooperation when it started. In this cooperation, the two sides launched suits of modeling lamps, coffee cups, dishes, cloth bags, handkerchiefs and other related items. The virtual cartoon image "Vick" created by Verdy is also 3D for the first time, creating a large work about 1.7 meters high.

Joan Cornellà x AllRightsReserved

Illustrator Joan Cornell à was born in Barcelona, Spain in 1981. After graduating from art, he once drew illustrations for the New York Times. He is famous for his disturbing surreal humor and black humor comics. Since 2010, his works have been released on social media, which has aroused great repercussions, and he has held personal art exhibitions in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Shanghai and other places. This year, Joan Cornell long and Allrights reserved jointly launched limited size dolls twice. After the first launch of the 12.5-inch bronze Doll "selfie gun", a 10 inch enamel Doll "selfie gun" was launched, based on the famous character image of Joan Cornell long, continuing the satirical style of Joan Cornell long. The doll is limited to 1000 pieces, and each doll has an artist's signature and an independent number under its feet.

Parra x Case Studyo

Parra was born in the Netherlands in 1976. His works span painting, graffiti, animation and sculpture, and create a relaxed artistic style with highly saturated colors and surreal themes. Parra has a deep relationship with street culture and cooperated with Nike for the first time in 2008; Parra also founded its own brand Rockwell, which was later renamed by Parra, launched all kinds of clothing and household products, and cooperated with many street brands. Parra has maintained long-term cooperation with case studyo, an American creative agency, and has launched more than 30 works. Tomato lamp decorations and vase sculptures are sold out when they are on the shelf. The two sides once again jointly launched a Ceramic Vase ornament called "Parra bird", which is 9 inches high. It is based on people, birds and mixtures. It is placed upside down wearing a helmet with a star pattern. Parra's iconic blue, red and white colors are creative and practical.