Designer Toys- Designs for limited edition, urban vinyl, toys, art and collectibles

From the Trechbet series of Vinyl toys, a series of seven. 

Valveron, from the Dome robot series. Vinyl and Perspex. 

The Pasture range of Vinyl Toys includes one of my first designs.
Tribble-bit was originally a stamp.

Onti Octopule range, series of eight ocean going  molluscan phylum Cephalopoda.Fun for all the family!

Another of the Onti Octopule range. Soulegg.

I would like to see this realised in a stretchable vinyl, also imagine him smelling of vanilla.

One of the first designer toys I illustrated. The first in the Dome Robots series.
Dombermite.
Still working out the design possibilities of filling his head up with liquid or something akin to a snow dome.

Series of six Masque Toys. Designed to fit on a generic body.
Proffesser was so named because once I finished him he reminded me of the 'professor' from the old TV series of
Felix the Cat.

Growing up on a steady diet of Kellogs Frosties allowed me access to some of the most evocative memories from my childhood, Cereal Toys!
In between what seemed like so many breakfasts...a new box finally! Pulling out the pillow of cellophane, trying to spot the prize through  that mist.
Flicker rings!, lassoing cowboys ,their horses kicking up dust at the twist of a wrist. Camel trains, stretch pets... they actually WORK!! Crater Critters, actual aliens... before school even! Noodle Nodders,that snake in a log, and the hippo, the mechanism was so smooth, his mouth just kept going and going,  this stuff was better than television! and one of the best series, the Totem Tribe. So smooth, almost chewable, and they fitted onto each other so perfectly, soft plastic, sensual form and wondrous colours.
Zoom ahead 40 or so years, and  and it is season for a tribute.
 Buffalo Dreamtop is my memory of those wonderful totem figures, blended together and twisted by time. With the smell of Play Doh in my nostrils, and the feel of silly putty under my hands  So thank you, to whoever thought some kid would scream the supermarket isle down to get his hands on anything that looked like a toy, even a tiny piece of plastic stuffed in a cereal box. But what giants they seemed to me then.