We Made This

Wilfrid Wood

We've got a fairly substantial toy collection here at We Made This, ranging from comic characters to the Tango doll produced a bunch of years ago.

So we were dead excited to come across the website of Wilfrid Wood. A Central Saint Martins graphic design graduate who went on to work on Spitting Image, his work bridges the gap between toys and sculpture:

Well they're toys in as much as they're funny and brightly coloured and accessible.

My character Fat Boy was produced by Howies clothing company as a toy called Doh Boy. Another called Coot is coming out soon.

They're art in as much as they're fairly 'adult' in subject matter, are hand made and I sell them in galleries rather than toy shops.

They are also art because they are straight from the heart.

Check out his Howies character here.

View-Master goodness

We've been enjoying Ace Jet 170 for a while now, with its postings about "Found type, print and stuff".

We were particularly revved up when we saw their latest post, all about the View-Master Stereoscope, and couldn't help but post something in reply.

Alistair's grandmother had a View-Master (Model G, fact fans), and no trip to her house was complete without a decent amount of time spent checking out scenes from around the world (and beyond! with the Apollo Moon Landing reel). He inherited the View-Master and the collection of reels, and the ones above are a couple of his favourites.

And, staying in the world of the View-Master, check out this place that can make customised reels for you, and the Fisher Price site with the current incarnation of the View-Master, and this world of 3-D gadgetry.

New Gorillaz toys from Kid Robot

We totally failed to pick up a first set of the fantastic Kid Robot Gorillaz toys, so we were dead excited to hear that they're releasing a new set, in three different colour variations: basic, 2-tone, and white. The basic ones will be on sale from 26 October, and the others on 2 November (though that might be in the US rather than the UK). Yum yum yum yum.

Strange creature likes to hug

This fella's name is Klong. He cannot see or hear you, but senses your kindness. We picked him up at Playlounge as a present for a young relative, but then realised he was just too cool to let go, so now he's a permanent resident.