Hazmate Mini-Plush

My passion for designing started in 2002 as a hobby by setting up individual design projects creating my own products and street art related designs for t-shirts, stickers, buttons, and handmade designer toys which showed up in different (online) shops, websites, exhibitions, books and magazines worldwide. Over the years a personal interpretation about visual art & design gradually developed into Bytedust. I decided to start an one-man business in December 2006. Today Bytedust is a small creative media lab from Bilthoven (The Netherlands) creating vector and graphic designs, web designs, character designs, ideas and concepts for companies and organizations. Self-produced art toys are designer collectibles created and manufactured independently by the artist or small teams without the backing of a large toy company or mass-market brand. These toys are often highly personal, artistic expressions and are usually made in limited runs. Key Characteristics include independent creation where the artist is in control of the entire process from concept, sculpting, and painting to production and packaging. These are usually made in small batches, often 10–100 pieces, which adds to their rarity, made using materials like resin, sofubi (Japanese soft vinyl), or 3D-printed components.