URL: Z-Grade
RELATED LINKS: Eco-Monster Puppets

New Z-Grade creations!
We attended the holiday boutique sale event at TBWA/Chiat/Day again this year.

URL: Monster Factory | Online Store

Cute Handcrafted Monsters by Monster Factory from Toronto, Canada. Each doll is sold around $20 to $50 depending on the design.

URL: Z-Grade on eBay: Auction sale is exclusive on eBay!

We have acquired an amazing selection of cool vintage model kits, mostly from the 50s through the 60s!!
We have a limited selection of model kits. It looks like most of the models are airplanes by Revell, Aurora, Hawk and Airfix.

URL: Vessel

candeloo® tooli: 2-lamp set $39
How cute!! Candeloo makes a great bedside friend and interior decoration. It is safe to hold them by hand, so you can take one of them with you in the middle of the night without having to turn on any lights in the room :)

URL: Nanda

Cute and unique alarm clock - Nanda Clocky $49.99
If you have problem waking up, this clock would probably wake you up for sure.

URL: Milk Jar
RELATED LINKS: Crazy Label | Flickr

OMG! How cute is that?!
I just came across this irresistible cute creature called "Treeson" created by Hong Kong illustrator "Bubi Au Yeung".

URL: Readymech Series 002 | Fwis

Cute make-it-yourself toys by Readymech :D
You can download their free PDFs, print on your thick 8.5" x 11" paper, and build them yourself for fun! I was thinking... they might even make a cute gift packaging to give out some candies, small accessories, or perhaps even gift certificates?? (Not sure if a gift certificate card would fit though... Hmmm...)

URL: Mariek Blog
RELATED LINKS: Flickr

Marieke Van Esveld is a freelance designer from Amsterdam, Netherlands with a special interest in needle felt and other crafts. A lot of her works and her interests cross over many of the things I'm interested in, like doing, and also want to be doing... So, I was very happy to discover about her today!

Helena Zália, Portugal
URL: ZAI-ZAI Blog
RELATED LINKS: Flickr

Adorable ornaments by Helena Zália in Portugal.

URL: Z-GRADE
RELATED LINKS: Z-Grade Eco-Monster Puppets

New additions to the Z-Grade Eco-Monster family :)

URL: Z-GRADE

We've been working really hard on getting our Z-Grade Eco-Monster Puppets ready for the TBWA/Chiat/Day holiday boutique sales event :) We decided to participate 2 weeks ago, so there was not much time to prepare many of them... but these puppets will be available on our online website when we launch in December 2006.

URL: FAFI | MySpace
RELATED LINKS: DOZEN | Flicker

Fafi - The Female French Graffiti Artist
I first became aware of Fafi when she released Artist Gacha-Gacha capsule toy series in Japan along with some other artists around the world back in 2003. At first, I didn't like her figures that much (I liked her drawing/painting style though)... but her figures started to grow on me every time I saw them. I was reading this guys blog this morning, and he wrote that he had to move the figures off his desk because they kept flirting with him!! I was laughing so hard!! But, I think fafi's figures seriously had the same effect on me!!

URL: Will Sweeney (more)
RELATED LINKS: Amos Toys | theONE40FIVE

From Will Sweeney’s Tales of Greenfuzz comic series - KEBAB TWINS!
Today, I was flipping through this Singapore magazine called "PLAY times" I received from my friend in Tokyo a while back. This magazine covers so many cool art toys (mimobots were in it too) and the style of artists I like a lot.

Branch // Sustainable Design for Living //
URL: Branch | Designer : Martí Guixé
RELATED LINK: Green Thinkers | Hortikids

What a cute vegetable monster (pet)!! There are 3 different pets available at BRANCH!! The picture above is the TOMATO, and there is MELON & PUMPKIN as well. What I love about this product/toy is... you can not only appreciate playing with this cute monster, but also plant her/him into dirt when you are ready to say goodbye!!! Everything is biodegradable, and you will enjoy harvesting wonderful vegetables :)