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Wilfrid Wood

Wilfridwood

We've got a fairly substantial toy collection here at We Made This, ranging from comic characters to the Tango doll produced a bunch of years ago.

So we were dead excited to come across the website of Wilfrid Wood. A Central Saint Martins graphic design graduate who went on to work on Spitting Image, his work bridges the gap between toys and sculpture:

Well they're toys in as much as they're funny and brightly coloured and accessible.

My character Fat Boy was produced by Howies clothing company as a toy called Doh Boy. Another called Coot is coming out soon.

They're art in as much as they're fairly 'adult' in subject matter, are hand made and I sell them in galleries rather than toy shops.

They are also art because they are straight from the heart.

Check out his Howies character here.

posted: 1 November 2007
categories: Toys
 
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