Made and Sold
Similar in concept to Stuffz: Design on Material, Made & Sold is another essential book for your library. This time, the works is divided by type (rather than artist), and emphasis is shown toward designer DIY. This format gives Jon an advantage over everyone else, as his work figures highly throughout. Witness toys, T-shirts, books, badges and much more in this great compendium. Stephan Bucher offered up a memorable soundbyte of wisdom: “He who writes the check, controls the type size.”
I wrote a longer review for Cool Hunting, but here are two quick snippets:
While there may be fewer rewarding commercial art contracts in the current economy, there is no shortage of artists with something to say. To get the message out, more designers are becoming entrepreneurs. Made & Sold, a new book from Laurence King Publishing collects the work of over 90 artists who are making and selling art products. Curated by Agathe Jacquillat and Tomi Vollauschek and of Fl@33, Made & Sold cleverly takes the form of an online store, dividing the content into shopping cart categories like: Clothing, Toys, Fonts and Zines.
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As we’ve seen with recent books like Stuffz: Design on Material and One Day of Design, artists are increasingly turning to 3D platforms. Made & Sold catalogs a nice array of toys, including hand-cast resin figures by Jon Burgerman, hand-carved wooden figures by Tado, screen-printed inflatable toys by DGPH and whimsical hand-knit plushes by Kate Sutton. Many of the designers in this chapter also make limited and mass-market production toys, but as Sutton puts it, “Even if I had a range of manufactured products, I would continue to make small runs as I love all things handmade, and it’s just part of what I do.”
Made & Sold is 240 pages with 1000 illustrations. You can order it through Amazon and Chronicle.
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