this tiny iron man

04/22/2013 by alaundre

is badass. except for the uneven weight distribution that causes it to topple over and fall from my desk numerous times, and also while I was trying to take these photos (he’s starting to get dinged up, see scar on his let cheek). It does come with a stand/clamp for flying poses and to help it stand up, which I didn’t feel like using. Nendoroid Iron Man Mark 7: Hero’s Edition by Goodsmile Company

Categories: materialism • Tags: action figures, chibi, collectibles, cute, kawaii, knick knacks, marvel comics, nendoroid, photography, super deformed, toys

accidental adventure time

04/06/2013 by alaundre

at least someone was happy I did not do a good job cleaning my hands after painting adventure time or tokidoki ?

Categories: art | design, create, random / life, seen • Tags: accidental art, adventure time, apophenia, arts & crafts, kawaii, tokidoki

too damn cute

11/18/2012 by alaundre

via io9 . via toysrevil

Categories: seen • Tags: animation, character art, character design, cute, graphic design, graphics, kawaii, motion graphics

yo, ren!

11/13/2012 by alaundre

Ren 2 by Bubi Au Yeung x Crazylabel

Categories: materialism • Tags: action figures, art toys, character art, character design, collectibles, cute toys, designer figures, designer toys, designer vinyl, kawaii, toys, urban vinyl, vinyl figures

my artwork is getting bootlegged on ebay

09/26/2012 by alaundre

– in the form of a button, worth $1.00 (10 available). not that its a big seller or anything, but still… First off, I’m not really sure what I should be mad about. Should I be mad that they took an old illustration of mine from this blog (click here to see the original post) and just added a Hello Kitty ribbon on it…or the fact that the whole thing makes no sense without the text? With the text/caption/slogan on […]

Categories: art | design, create, materialism, random / life • Tags: art, bootleg, context, copy, copycat, design, e-commerce, graphic design, hello kitty, iconography, icons, illustration, kawaii, peeves, piracy, plagiarism, rant

toyhaul

07/28/2012 by alaundre

let’s see, we got a Tomorrow King Seven Bones Kyoku, 2 Strange Beast Bossy Bears, and a David Choe Munkette. oh and how i love little freebies that come with your order, regardless of what they are:

Categories: materialism • Tags: action figures, art toys, collectibles, designer figures, designer toys, designer vinyl, figures, kaiju, kawaii, neo kaiju, toys, urban vinyl, vinyl figures, vinyl toys

bad fish stix

07/27/2012 by alaundre

– I still don’t know what this is for (see previous post for original version) these are the final version(s)

Categories: art | design, create, random / life • Tags: art, cartoon, character art, character design, cute, doodles, drawings, graphic arts, graphic design, illustration, illustrator, kawaii, logo, logo illustration, sketches, vector art, vector illustration

fish stix

07/19/2012 by alaundre

– don’t know what my sister will be using this for: i just vectorized my cousin’s design/illustration keeping everything as close as possible to the original drawing…even made his actual handwriting look like stitching.

Categories: art | design, create, random / life • Tags: art, cute, graphic design, graphics, icons, illustration, illustrator, kawaii, vector art, vector illustration

plushtached labbit

01/15/2012 by alaundre

– Kozik x Kidrobot Plush Labbit: i thought this thing would be bigger…oh well, i used a giftcard to get it.

Categories: materialism • Tags: art toys, character design, cute, designer plush, designer toys, kawaii, plush, plush toys