Little Giants invade dzynwrld store!

We're just loving these little giants of history designed by Alphie Northcote and produced by Jailbreak Collective! The Artists Collection includes avant-garde pop artist Andy Warhol (complete with Campbell's soup can), king of surrealism Salvador Dali, passionate but tortured Vincent van Gogh, and last but not least, the Spanish creative powerhouse Pablo Picasso.

The Revolutionaries Collection includes India's passive-resistance guru Mahatma Ghandi, Argentine Marxist Che Guevara, African-American Muslim activist Malcolm X, and Communist China's authoritarian leader Mao Zedong.

Each of these vinyl figures is approximately 3" tall and has no moving parts. Set of 4 figures comes in a window display box with original artwork and biographical notes for each artist or revolutionary.

Check them out at the dzynwrld store and use that tax refund to shake up your world a little...

– jb

Herman Miller blocks

Leave it to House Industries to come up with yet another cool toy that the designer-kid in me feels like he needs to have. The set includes eight basswood children’s blocks dressed in House Industries numbers, shapes and patterns with puzzle sides based on the original Herman Miller furniture box used for deliveries. The entire “box” set is packaged in a miniature corrugated shipping carton with appropriately-sized brown kraft packing tape. Fortunately for my budget the set is available only at the Herman Miller showroom in Tokyo... whew.

– jb