The fall season is upon us, and is time to release some new goodies next month. For designer figures collectors, New York Comic-Con is just around the corner (Mid-Oct). adFunture will release the original vinyl designed by American creator Oliver Hibert.

Titled “Milton”, this character originally seen in London’s DesignersBlock back in 2008. That was when Oliver’s work for DesignersBlock at London’s Design Week was short-listed and exhibited in the “Designs of the Year Show” at the London Design Museum.

I was in London for adFunture London Guerilla Store around that time, when I saw Milton sitting on a huge outer wall of a building (didn’t know where I was). Came back to the hotel, and successfully dug up who designed Milton. Milton led me to Oliver’s world of art, and I was instantly impressed. I’m sure you’ll like Milton too.

Indonesian artist, ARKIV, whom we have worked with on a number of occasions, will be opening his solo US exhibition at Toy Art Gallery in LA on Aug 5th. Not only will he be putting up quite alot of new artworks, his new figure made with adFunture, the SUMO, will also be available during this exhibition period. With Gino at Toy Art Gallery, we put together a first release of SUMO in form of a Black/Dark Gray colorway. 100 pieces exclusively made for TAG, and of course, to be sold exclusively by TAG as well. If you are still hunting for the ARKIV INSTANT figures we put out a while back, make sure you don’t let this SUMO slip your fingers this time.

Arkiv’s “Escapist” opens Friday at TAG

Toy Art Gallery is proud to present “Escapist”, a solo show from renowned Indonesian artist Arkiv Vilmansa. The exhibit will feature new painted works, sculptures, limited edition prints and a special preview release and signing of the new figure “The Sumo”.

“Over the past several years, artist Arkiv Vilmansa’s iconic character ‘Arkiv Instant’ has made the artist a household name within the lowbrow art and toy culture scene. Arkiv looks to develop his signature image, while debuting new characters and continuing to explore his unique style of combining the surreal and theatrical with playful and whimsical caricature.”

Opening reception is Friday, Aug 5th 2011 from 7pm-11pm. Arkiv will be in attendance with a live painting session. A signing session will follow on Saturday, Aug. 6th starting at 2pm.

The Show Preview will be available on Thursday, Aug. 4th. The exhibit runs from Aug. 5th to Aug. 26th, 2011.

Toy Art Gallery
737 Seward St. #1
Los Angeles, CA 90038
USA

As previously introduced, adFunture worked with G-Shock on a series of 4 figures this Summer. The series titled “Master of G” has its design concept directly linked to 4 G-Shock iconic watch models; Gulfman, Mudman, Frogman and Riseman. Each character was inspired by the various functions of each G-Shock Master of G watch models. The figures can also serve as a watch holder, designed for those G-Shock collectors who would like to display their watches at home or the office.These figures were designed and produced by adFunture Workshop for G-Shock, and were given to consumers when they buy a watch at selected G-Shock retail stores.

Continuing on with the introduction of adFunture x G-Shock “Master of G” figure series, here is model #003 code-named “DEEP SEA”. The inspiration for DEEP SEA came from G-Shock’s FROGMAN watch model. The diver watch can go as deep as 200m under water, FROGMAN now holds the World Record for its function and ability. On the DEEP SEA character, a new head sculpt was given and a pair of propellors were integrated into its legs.

As a series of 4 figures, the “Master of G” figures series is the third collaboration between adFunture and G-Shock. The first collaboration dated back to G-Shock’s 25th Anniversary back in 2008, that was when adFunture ask given the task of designing the Anniversary Watch Pack for G-Shock China.

adFunture worked together with G-Shock on a series of 4 figures this Summer. The series titled “Master of G” has its design concept directly linked to 4 G-Shock iconic watch models; Gulfman, Mudman, Frogman and Riseman. Here’s the #001 model code-named DEEP SEA based on the Gulfman watch.

These adFunture-designed-&-produced figures will hit the G-Shock stores nation wide in China on July 1st.

adFunture will be back in Taipei for another exhibition next weekend. It has been some time since “adFunture Taipei 2006″, and a solo exhibit feels very different than those toy conventions like the beloved Taipei Toy Fest. After 5 years since the last solo, this time around we rounded up our friends from the Taiwan streetwear scene, and put together the “YOKA Taiwan Series”. A series that involved 12 clothing labels, and each designed their own variant of our YOKA panda. This series will be available at the opening event of our exhibition. Besides this new series, visitors to the exhibit, titled “We are One Human Race”, will also see something big and related to the title. Go see for yourself!

adFunture Taipei Exhibition 2011
“We are One Human Race”

Exhibition Opening:
May 20th, 2011 – June 30th, 2011

Venue:
VEIL Taipei Store
2F., No.4, Ln. 96, Kunming St., Wanhua Dist., Taipei City 108, Taiwan

Thanks to our friends:
Revelator
Overkill
Remix Taipei
PHANTACi
BRAiNCHiLD
Provider
Machi
Mania
Hometown
B-Side
Saint of Rock
VEIL

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http://www.veil.hk

This week in Hong Kong, EastPak company will release a 3-colorway pack of its branded adFunture YOKAs figures. This collaboration was to tie-in EastPak’s new series of its iconic backpacks. Expect to see our YOKAs in EastPak stores if you are in HK. Exclusive to EastPak, we won’t have any to offer to our designer toy boutiques, so if you see them, grab them quickly!

If you are in Taiwan this month, remember to grab a copy of COOL Magazine. On the back cover, you’ll see this adFunture YOKA image. COOL Magazine did a 4-page spread on adFunture and a small recap of the YOKAs we previously released. Really excited to see they gave us so much love. For the occasion, we gave some preview shots of the next new series of YOKAs to them to publish. Go check it out!

Anyone remember these?

I was going thru our adFunture Archive for a magazine coverage we have to do in Taiwan, and I came across the Dunk Hi adFunture did with SBTG back in 2004.

These came out back in 2004, and were sold via FreshnessMag. Titled “Boulevard”, 24 pairs were made. Sold out pretty quickly, like 10mins. Of course, this was back in 2004. Fast forward to 2011, that might take a bit longer than 10 mins. Not to say SBTG’s work on these weren’t great, they are very nice even when I look at them today, but the sneaker market has changed quite a bit since 2004 to say the least. I have good memories from this project, SBTG was cool with work with, very talented. It was project like this early on that set adFunture apart from other designer figures company back in da day, I suppose; adFunture was never just about designer figures. We make other things, projects, whatever that interest us. Is more of a reflection of our own livestyles, the ones who work in/with adFunture. Anyways, just wanted to put this up here for record sake. Been there, done that, next~ We should look forward.