Silent Stage Gallery came to DesignerCon with a lot of the same stuff they had at San Diego Comic Con. Thankfully, that also meant Angry Woebots at the booth along with his merchandise. Beyond customs from Woebots like a Pand...
| Brian Szabelski |
Coming all the way from San Antonio, Texas, were Bean Pot Toiz, and with them came a ton of customs from artists based in Texas and the southern U.S. Bryan Collins, Jason Chalker, Halo Seraphim, Denise Vasquez, Sleepy Da...
| Brian Szabelski |
When looking at the customs from JFury's DesignerCon booth, you get the idea he has a theme he likes to work with. Something about clowns. Or zombies. Or zombie clowns. Regardless, JFury's style seems to mix urban graffiti wi...
| Brian Szabelski |
Sawdust Bear's booth at DesignerCon was a colorful world of bizarre creatures set against a backdrop of wooden displays (no sawdust, though). The artist behind Sawdust Bear, Shing Yin Khor, was in attendance and very fun to t...
| Natalie Kipper |
At first glance, the Vaud Villain Toys booth might seem like any other toy retailer's set-up. But it was also the place where you could find Vaud Villain's Nick Bane and his two handmade pieces: the resin Bi-Polar Molar and t...
| Brian Szabelski |
At the FrankenFactory DesignerCon booth, you could find yourself lost in a forest full of Designer Toy Award-winning Wolfgirls. Okay, maybe not a literal forest, but hey, there were a lot of different Wolfgirl variants on dis...
| Brian Szabelski |
BLACKGARD rolled into DesignerCon with some familiar faces in tow. Of course, there's the newest character, Gumbo, with each clear colorway a one-of-a-kind figure. Also at the booth were one-off colorways of the Grey Guardian...
| Brian Szabelski |
Galaxy Monkeys arrived at DesignerCon with a few angry-looking sofubi monekys in spacesuits. The colored Monkeynaut was a DCon exclusive piece, but they also had limited numbers of the black and glow-in-the-dark version avail...
| Brian Szabelski |
The toys of Tyler Poncho are a spectacular mix of kooky and cute. I had previously seen some of the plushes made by Kaeti, the artist behind the brand, online and was drawn to their unique designs. Seeing them up close a...
| Natalie Kipper |
At the 3D Retro booth at DesignerCon, we saw many things, including: A wild Buff Monster! He was signing at the booth and in some of our shots, as you can see. Lifesize Benny the Dreamer and Bellicose Bunny statues! As far a...
| Brian Szabelski |
BAIT's DesignerCon booth was more or less a showing off of all the different things they sell, but it was also the DCon home for ESC-Toy this year. The big piece on display (and for sale) was the Little Spiker Spitfire, the t...
| Brian Szabelski |