As designers we love to put our creative mark on all sorts of canvasses. Designer toys are a popular way for designers and illustrators to really go to town with creativity, often cutting, chopping and moulding the toy into custom shapes and forms. If you fancy producing a custom toy of your own, be sure to check out these handy resources from across the web, each giving insights and tips into the construction process of a custom toy.
First, some designer toy inspiration
New to designer toys? Check out these great roundups of custom designer toys to get the ideas flowing:
Abduzeedo: Amazing Toy Art: Munny
Blog.SpoonGraphics: Mega Roundup of 60 Cool Custom Designer Toys
Noupe: 30+ Incredibly Beautiful Custom Designer Toys
Custom toy tips and tutorials
Fancy giving it a go yourself? Take a browse through these handy tutorials to pick up some useful tips and techniques to customising a toy of your own.
Using Sculpey on a Vinyl Toy
Illustrate a Vinyl Toy
Custom Droplet Tutorial by James Yeah?
Red Night Walker Mad*L Tutorial by Kat Brunnegraff
Custom Toy Tutorial By Patrick Francisco
Custom Munny & Helmet By Wavedog
How to Sculpt 3D Stitches
How to create your own custom Drupalicon Munny
Munny Making Walkthrough
How To Customize Your Own DIY Munny
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Nice article, nice toys… Thanks.
Nice toys man. Good roundup. Very interesting.
Thanks, just bought a white vinyl toy from a fleamarket and have been looking for tutorials on how to modify it.
I never knew it was so easy (well, easy might not be the word) to find out how to make your own toys. I’ve made a toy cat out of some fluff and cut up towels once and it was a favorite with the children in my preschool.
Awesome. Might finally get around to doing something with the dozen munny’s I have lying around.
awesome!
I really like the Munny Making characters!
The people who design and create these custom toys are so talented I’m jealous!
Great post thanks for the links, think that i might make one myself.
Without a doubt, this the best place to start for anyone interested in finding out about Custom Designer Toys.
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