Taxonomy term | Designer Vinyl Toys & Art Culture | Clutter Magazine | Category | DTAs

In celebration of our upcoming 2nd Annual Designer Toy Awards Ceremony, we've decided to pull out all the stops and ask over 60 of our industry friends to contribute production pieces, rarities and oddities to make some amazing Lucky Bags. Contained within each reusable tote bag could be anything from custom "one-off" figures tounreleased colorway prototypes, from original artwork to completely exclusive editions… and, of course, there will be hordes of released figures in there, as well as other surprises. No two bags are exactly the same!

With the Designer Toy Awards event approaching fast, we are super excited to begin releasing special details about the Awards Ceremony on October 13, 2012 in New York City. With that said, we are proud to announce the host of this year's event: The Super Sucklord!

After collecting hundreds of entries in all of the Designer Toy Award categories, we are proud to present to you the OFFICIAL NOMINEES for The DTAs 2012. To narrow down the entries we created groups of nominating committees comprised of artists, bloggers, brand owners and collectors, to validate and classify the entries based upon the requirements for each category. 

The 2011 Designer Toy Awards party was huge success, with so many fantastic artists and industry insiders all in the same room! This video shows just a snippet of the energy, excitement and impact of the Designer Toy Awards ceremony. We're all looking forward to the 2012 Awards party, coming this October in New York City. It'll definitely be bigger and badder! 

We blogged the update to Jason Freeny's Toy Prince last week, and we are really excited to reveal the finished sculpt! Jason did an amazing job! We are so thrilled with the way it turned out!! So what's next with this piece i here you ask.... Well that would be telling, but keep your eyes on our blog for more information!!   

Awesome news from Jason Freeny is that he was recently featured on SPIKE's 'All Access Weekly'!

Yesterday we blogged about the start of the Jason Freeny's Toy Prince custom process, and today we have an update, with some awesome work in progress pictures. As you can see from the pictures below he is coming along fast! He now has a rib case and lower intestine! 

Some of you may have noticed something exciting going on over on facebook... Yes that's right, Jason Freeny DTA winner extraordinaire, has been busy at work customizing one of the last remaining Toy Princes for us.

New York Comic Con is most definitely underway! So here is the reveal of the long awaited Toy Prince!! Designed by Pete Fowler, The Prince is an altered version of the award from the designer toy awards, the Toy King. Limited to just 25 pieces this special NYCC release was hand rotocast by Julie B in the USA! He comes complete with GID crown and a hand painted color scheme.

One of the biggest and most exciting parts of putting together the Designer Toy Awards, was dreaming up and manufacturing the actual physical award. We knew from the outset that we wanted it to be a substantial piece that not only encapsulated the character driven nature of the designer toy scene but also stood on its own as a desirable art object. Because we truly are celebrating the growth and longevity of the scene, it made perfect sense to us to approach Clutter's first cover artist Pete Fowler.