Matt Walker

It’s finally here! Ningyoushi.com opened their new retail store, double punch, in San Francisco, California in May 2004. Double Punch is located in North Beach district and only a couple blocks from the beautiful bay. After many years of being part of the online toy community, Ningyoushi has decided to begin their vision of the collector’s haven – a place where cool toys, merchandise and art harvested from designers worldwide, can be found under one roof. You can experience the trendiest collectibles from Japan, limited edition designer toys, art, clothing and books that you’ve only been able to see on the web and magazines! Double Punch also features a gallery space in the mezzanine level featuring art and exhibitions from local artists. Matt Walker owner of Dead Presidents Designs, Presidential Coatings ,Monster Kolor & Cosmic Squadron is a custom pinstriper and painter of toys & figures of all kinds. Matt has more than fifteen years experience in the automotive and motorcycle coatings industries.This has enabled him to perfect his craft and become one of the most sought after custom painters of toys of all kinds.Dead Presidents Designs specializes in Hand Pinstriping, Metal Flake Applications,Color Change Effects and Real Fire Treatments.Currently, Matt is working with several toy manufactures on both production and custom runs. His work has been featured in Hot Bike, Hyper Hobby, Atomic Kulture,Street Chopper magazines. His work has been featured online at Toy Karma, Vinyl Pulse,Toybot Studios. - from deadpresidentsdesigns.blogspot.com Max Toy Co’s Kaiju Eyezon is turning 5 years old, and to celebrate its birthday, Mark Nagata is preparing a very special show at the San Francisco store / gallery Double Punch. The show opens Saturday, November 3rd, 2012 until Dec 2nd, 2012. Special guest artists, Todd Robertson and Will Long will be there. The poster for the show was illustrated and designed by Javier Jiménez.