DESIGNER TOY

Squiddy - White/DIY

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Created out of an obsession for designer/art toys and collectables, Hong Kong based company Toy2r continues to break down the boundaries between product design, art and graphics. Mastermind Raymond Choy founded the company in 1995 where he took his dream of a once owned toy store known as ‘Toy R’ (short for Toy Raymond), which held countless quantitiesof limited edition toy collectables, and turned it into a internationally recognized company amongst the first to explore the potential of the designer/art toy movement. Ultimately, instilling contemporary art into the vinyl toy market we all know and love today. Toy2r is a multi-faceted company whose logo was taken from our most loved and cherished mascot, the ‘Toyer.’ In 2001 Raymond released the skull-headed figure alongside what was to become the most ubiquitous toy canvas in the world, the Qee keychain figure (Please see About Qee for further information). We take great pride in our determination at Toy2r to not only innovate but inspire artists’, designers’ and the world’s generation of youth alike. Our main objective is to provide limited/collectable designer/art toys at an affordable price, based on the coolest designs for the current international market. Toy2r has received numerous internationally renowned awards for our outstanding achievements; eter Maiozzi, in art and BOL23 'born in Rome, in the district Centocelle, painted in 1970 and 1988. Make murals with the group of the Laboratory of Design of the Fort Prenestino since 1990. Then begins to use sprays with groups / crew primitive mind, TMH, 23 recordz, PDB and is' one of the first writers of Rome. all magazines published in Italian / foreign graffiti and hip hop. From 1998 to 2006 held an annual course in drawing, painting and development of creativity 'for young people from more' diverse desperate-reality 'of Roman prisoners including juvenile Casal del Marmo. Since 1994 he was invited to meetings and organizes writing throughout Italy where among other things, upgrading, with spray paint, the walls city-licensed for the occasion. Always produces works of painting and bodyart, on commission for local business, clubs, public and private spaces. Make custom builds toys and interactive electronic toys also made ​​entirely by hand using recycled materials. His works, texts and interviews are published in several newspapers including Italian Corriere della Sera, Messenger, Liberation, the Republic, the press and on various television networks including RAI 3, SKY, RAI PROFIT. In Rome he collaborated with the 'Local Authority for Youth

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