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The Basketball

   Small recall bit, basketball was invented in 1891 by James Naismith While teaching Springfield College in Massachussetts. The idea comes to him in order to try to maintain his indoor sports cl...

Cowabunga

The beginnings In the beginning, there is a duo: Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird. The first, screenwriter, became friends in 1982 in the second, who was a designer. A year later, the two accomplices ...

Advent Calendar 2022 : Artoyz x Kerbans

As you know, Christmas is fast approaching and gift lists are in the process of being written. Artoyz wants to celebrate this beautiful period with you and offers its own advent calendar, which wil...

THE BEST STREETWEAR X TOY DESIGN COLLABORATIONS

Streetwear and toy design have a lot in common. They take their roots in fashion, pop culture, surfing, skateboarding and urban cultures such as graffiti and hip-hop. Their codes are the same (crea...

Our selection for Black Friday 2022

Notice to all our readers, the long -awaited moment has finally arrived. It's now time for Black Friday ! Take advantage of discounts on many references, this is an opportunity to please and have f...

Always ready for Halloween!

Pagan friends, your favorite party is back! If Halloween started from the Celts of Europe in the 8th century as a way of celebrating fall, it was once arrived in the United States with Irish and Sc...

Artoyz Music Awardz

At Artoyz Music is omnipresent : In our Parisian offices as in our stocks. So much so that we produce figurines ourselves according to our favorites! A recent example? Kavinsky, Ambassador of the "...

Animation and Toy Design 1986 - 1995 (fourth part)

You probably know it already, but at Artoyz, we are rather fond of animation movies. Whether they are of time or color did not exist on the screens, or a more recent period in which the particle wa...

Yuki the Young Yak by Mark Ryden

Three years ago, a project began as incredible as it is ambiticulous: the creation of a collection plush with the talented Mark Ryden, the godfather of the pop-surrealist movement. At the time, th...

Kavinsky X Artoyz Originals

On the occasion of the release of REBORN, ARTOYZ And Kavinsky Associate themselves to present the vinyl figurine in 1/6 format of his iconic character. Proposed in 2 versions REBORN And Outstrun,...

Interview with Juce Gace

On the occasion of his Wood Morning Paris exhibition which will take place from March 25 to 28, 2022 at 32 rue de notre-dame de Nazareth (75003), we met Juce Gace and were able to discuss with him ...

Animation & Toy Design 1963 - 1986 (Third Part)

You probably already know it, but at Artoyz, we are rather fond of animated films. Whether they are from a time when color did not exist on screens, or from a more recent era in which the war of pa...

Animation & Toy Design 1938 - 1963 (Part Two)

You probably already know it, but at Artoyz, we are rather fond of animated films. Whether they are from a time when color did not exist on screens, or from a more recent era in which the war of pa...

Animation & Toy Design 1892 - 1937 (First part)

You probably already know it, but at Artoyz, we are rather fond of animated films. Whether they are from a time when color did not exist on screens, or from a more recent era in which the war of pa...

Cars and toy design

In the family of private means of transport, I ask for the most widespread, the best known, the most impacting: the automobile. A mixture of the Greek prefix αὐτός (“oneself”) and the Latin suffix ...

Interview with Matt Leines

On the occasion of the release of the Tiger Bolts by Matt Leines figurine, meeting with its creator. This interview taking place in English, it is translated here. You can find the original version...

We take stock of 2021

2021 is now behind us while 2022 looks at least as loaded with more or merry medium twists than the year that preceded it. It is time to draw up a small assessment of what was 2021 for us.2021 For ...

Advent Calendar: Artoyz X Kerbans

Christmas is now only a handful of days away and if the trees and garlands have already invaded our streets, the main event of this month of December remains the advent calendar. What a pleasure to...

Black Friday 2021 :

You have probably seen the words Black Friday scroll throughout, on social networks, on the radio, the TV, in the corridors of the metro, etc ... Of course your favorite site does not escape the ru...

Kubrick : from Stanley to Medicom

Kubrick is a name that leaves no one indifferent, discerning moviegoers or Toy Design enthusiasts alike. So let's go on an adventure with a little chronological story that will combine Stanley Kubr...

History of Steampunk

If you like literature and uchronia, you have necessarily been confronted with the steampunk movement. It all began on February 8, 1828 with the birth of Jules Gabriel Verne. As a law student, he ...

Wonder Woman: 80 years old

On October 21, 2021 is probably a day like the others for most of us. For my part, spent a little night in my native Normandy, I got up to board a ter to the questionable cleanliness before the swe...