GID Hamsters launched!

Today we´ve launched a limited special GID edition of Cavy the Urban Hamster. The figure will come in two variants with or without articulated arms. The GID Version is limited to ten pieces and is available via Urban Hamster Big Cartel.

The figures are made of photoluminescent resin, glowing yellow-green.

Thanks a lot to Jeremy Brautman for posting http://www.jeremyriad.com/blog/toy-talk/glow-in-the-dark-hamsters/ in early january. You can also see some GID experiments at spankystokes . Thank you John :). Sorry for the delay, here they come...

Merry Christmas!

Toyarchitects and Cavy the Hamster want to thank you for your endurenced support over 2010! Established in January this year we approached so much love and help.

Originally made for my little son Linus as one of his first playtoys, Cavy met some awesome people this year. First of all Jeremy Brautman who supported the first launch of this little guy and every little step he made. Not to forget fantastic Wondercon 2010 and an exciting travel around the world to San Francisco. Thanks so much to Neon Monster, Jeremy and Kristy!

Thanks go out to Tomopop, Battlegrip, Sina, Scooter&Jinx, Banana Suicida, Twofeetdeep, Vinylpulse Plasticandplush, vinyl-creep, thunderchunky, sweetoy, collect3D and Smallstuff for all your articles! And a big big thank you to John from Spankystokes.com and Andy from toysrevil.blogspot.com for announcing everything new around the Urban Hamsters.

Cavy traveled to San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Texas, Singapore, Moscow, Great Britain , Indonesia, Switzerland, Canada and Czech Republic and even South Africa, … so, last but not least the biggest thanks to all friends, consumers, customers and artists in the world for your support and love!

Merry Christmas, may God be with you all and a happy New Year to all of you!

Thank you so much

Mathias

Charity Hamster for Andy Heng

In October unexpected news reached us. Founder of http://toysrevil.blogspot.com/ Andy Heng, one of the most famous blogger in toy-busyness was taken to hospital in cause of a minor stroke.

The health system in Singapore isn´t the same like in Europe and health insurances only pays part of your treatment. UK based toy-designer Cris rose reacted immediately and relaunched vinylhearts.com.

Together with many artists Toyarchitects take part in the charity work and produced a special "ToysRevil edition" of Cavy the Urban Hamster for http://urbanhamster.bigcartel.com/ . The figure is limited to 10 pieces worldwide and the whole benefit of the first 3 Hamsters and 30% of each additional figure of this style is used directly to support the hospital treatment of Andy Heng. The Recently solds and the more than friendly feedbacks like the one from Vinyl Destination, South Africa http://twitpic.com/389roa let us decide to even spend the whole of 5 sold Ham´s for the man who supported each toy of us since our launch.

If you are interested in donating or getting involved, check out vinylhearts.com where Cris Rose has set up a site for charity to support Andy´s treatment

You can also check out the ToysREvil facebook page for more updates.

If you havn´t got your hand on one of these little guys yet you maybe catch one of the last ones now :) urbanhamster — Cavy the Ham-Ster TOYSREVIL CHARITY EDITION / ToyArchitects . Please keep on donating to support Andy´s healing as good as possible.

The very best wishes to you and your family. Get well soon, Andy!

Cozy Cavy Robots by Cozyrobot

Urban Hamsters go colaborating with Amybean´s Cozy Robots!
The bay area artist also known as cozyrobot via twitter handmade a tag-team of Hamaster and plush-robot by using the same pattern. The result is an awesome set supported by both cozyrobot and toyarchitects. Even noticed by wellknown journalist Jeremy Brautman the team teams up on Neon Monster´s blog at http://blog.neonmonster.com/tag/toy-architects/


"I use my very own Iterative Soft Toy Development Methodology (ISTDM) as well as the newer Frequent Small Releases Methodology (FSRM). The plush doll is made of fleece stuffed with polyfiber and, having no loose parts, is perfect for a newborn or toddler, or collector of hand made softies. The matching Urban Hamster(tm) is your friend, who watches Life from the relative safety of your Collectibles Shelf." is how Amy describes her work.

Amy’s got 6 recruits for the Cozy Cavy Robot Army attired and ready for cozybattle. Each one-of-a-kind matching set is $60 only on etsy. Oh, and if you want to DIY a hamster, you´ll get them here.

Please make sure to visit Amy´s Homepage on http://cozyrampage.com/ and follow her via http://twitter.com/cozyrobot .

Thank you Amy for this outstanding idea and great work!

Hamster Custom by Vanessa Ramirez

Today a Hamster customized as a mouse or rat reaches us. This great work is done by Vanessa Ramirez. Vanessa is a Graphic Designer, Artist, and Jack-of-all-trades. She is currently based out of sunny Southern California. She spent the last ten years learning the ins and outs of the screen printing business and has since branched out to the promotional products field.

She currently oversees the Graphic Design Department at SafeHaven Products. For fun she likes to learn new programs, juggle freelance projects, and consume mass quantities of caffeine. She is currently accepting freelance projects and looks forward to hearing from you.

As Vanessa sais her DIY Hamster lost one arm so she decided to
remove both and customze it. A

Thank you very much Vanessa!
A great work!

You can follow Vanessa via twitter on http://twitter.com/vanessa_ramirez and make sure to have had a look at her Homepage on http://www.vanessaramirez.com/

"Sqook" Hamster Custom by Gareth Lancaster

WOW, finally I can show you some pictures of the latest Urban Hamster custom by moopf (Gareth Lancaster) from the United Kingdom.

As he told us this little guy follows the name "Sqook". I really like the colorway and even green and grey seem to be great alternatives to the actual movement of neon colors... :)

Thank you very much Gareth! Looking at this one I´d rather hurry up with exposition plannings of Hamster customs!

Have a look at Gareth´s Homepage at http://www.moopf.com/ and follow moopf via twitter on http://twitter.com/moopf.

Urban Hamster Custom by Daniel Goffin

The last time i met Daniel was about three months ago. So, visiting his last week studio I was suprised to be given the first Urban Hamster made by Daniel Goffin.
Painted in his specific flip-flop-style Daniel added a cyclopse eye in bright orange.
Some of you might have visited Daniel´s solo show at LA’s Toy Art Gallery in june this Year.

If you Want to visit Daniels web pages please have a closer look at: Reduced Figuration. You can also visit the Homepage of Daniel at danielgoffin.com

Thank you very much, Daniel. This piece is simply great!