Admins needed!

Hello there!

As you have perhaps noticed, Toginis was left unwatched for about a month. Due to my lack of time, mostly, which I very much regret, seeing how many great fans we have acquired last year.

Therefor, I am currently looking for a person to co-write this blog with me. How much is to write is up to you - the choice of your topic is also (mostly) free, as long as it belongs to the categories talked about on this blog.

So, why not? Do you have something to show the world (or at least those few thousand who visit us each month)?

Write now ;)

Mark Powell

For me the individual is a fascinating thing. Each person is as important or irrelevant as the next.

Chris Gilmour's cardboard objects

Besides sharing a surname with a famous guitarist, Chris Gilmour is recognized for a mastery in cardboard and glue, proving that you can master anything if you really want to. Subtle, yet curious on not only technical level - deconstructing the form and then renewing it in a completely unsuitable material is somehow reverse approach to design - how it forces us to re-think our frames and boxes and embrace the useless ideas, only to find out that uselessness is subjective.

Geometry Daily

If you, like me, happen to be a fanatic of clean, geometric shapes and simple colours, you will love this site. Geometry Daily is a tumblr blog created by a German design professor dedicated to proving the world with a new composition every day. Great inspiration for ascetics and simplicity lovers.

"The Way Things Go" - by Peter Fischli and David Weiss

I don't usually post videos. But an exception proves the rule. Or, judging by what I want to show you today it will become a rule. Because the Swiss artist duo Fischli&Weiss made something so exceptional that it has left me with my jaw dropped.

They specialize in making art out of trash - and this installation is too, made out of elements found on a junkyard.

from dan balul on Vimeo.

Sandra Backlund's crochet creations

Fashion? Yep. Fashion. Why? Because it is a kind of design - wearable art is, after all, usable art. Therefore, design. And Sandra Backland's creations deserve recognition not only as "clothes", but as sculptural forms, made entirely out of wool. I would love to see these outfits made for men, but for now, I'll have to be glad with my own crocheting skills...

Bruce Munro

Bruce Munro started to create after hitting forty, but based on the sketches he made in his teenage years. What might come out of it? As it turns out, something lively, colourful, light and playful, but in mature, experienced way. His installations are sure to bring attention to wherever they are being set.

Artist's page.

Nathan Skiles

Nathan Skiles is a sculptor from Florida, whose main series of works consist of fancy clocks. Apart from constructing these often perverse devices he often creates sculptures and abstract, black and white collages. And while the clock are funny, often a bit perverse pieces, in my opinion Skiles' skill is seen in the sculptures - simple, unique style and a meaningful message underneath it. What do you think?

Olivier de Sagazan

What kind of art would you expect from a man born in Congo who studied biology and philosophy and whose webpage looks like a 1994-ish serial killer portfolio? Whatever your answer is, you will not be disappointed (except if you wanted to see happy unicorns). Oliver de Sagazan paints, sculpts and performs in one style - nightmare. His creations are something between dolls, monsters, rotting corpses, mythological creatures and people. And the most horrifying realization that they're human to the most extent.

Slinkachu - Little people

A young British street artist with international fame. No, not Banksy. Not today at least. Slinkachu's works resemble those of Liliana Porter's with the little difference of being on a street and other themes. Slinkachu tries to represent the loneliness of a big city inhabitant - but with some optimistic humour beneath it. And for me, the humour is what I see here. Funny, little people with giant objects right in the middle of a street and their tininess that reminds us how tiny are our own problems.

Artist's page.

Will Sears - Collages

A painter, designer and sign painter from Portland, Will Sears enchanted me with his both innovative and traditional approach to art. Combining elements from different sources he creates emotions, such as lust, longing for a better world or a sense of lost past. I particularly like Sears' work with wood - genuinely capturing the warmth of the material, combined with his imagination.

Source: http://willsearsfineart.com/Will_Sears_Fine_Art/Home.html

Seymour Chwast - Packaging and illustration

A founder of Push Pin Studios, widely recognized lecturer, recipient of the most prestigious awards, designer. I start to feel bad featuring suck a character on my lowly site. His masterful technique connects frivolous drawings, rich hues and escapes gaudiness. I would buy anything in these packages!

Source: http://www.pushpininc.com/index.html

Patrick Gannon - paper cut-outs

Patrick Gannon is one of the people who can safely put "paper cuts" into "possible work-related injuries"on his insurance form. This American-Japanese artist creates his elaborate images through cutting pieces of colourful paper sheets from all over the world and placing them together in one. Both masterful execution of his rare technique and great composition supported with glowing ideas make his art so exquisite.

Source: http://www.pgannon.com/index.htm

Virginia Fleck - Mandalas

Virginia Fleck was born in New York and currently lives in Austin. None of theses places pride themselves as being ecologically conscious, but she cares about the environment nevertheless, creating these mandalas from recycled colourful plastic bags. For me at least it has more artistic value than it saves the world, but rate for yourselves.

Source: http://virginiafleck.com/

Vaka Valo

Unfortunately, I cannot say much about this artist. Sometimes, when researching for interesting content I find myself in "this weird part of the internet" - and Vaka Valo's site is a merge between the weird, the unsettling and art. Anyone with information about this artist - feel free to contact us.
Please visit the rest of his (her?) site. You won't be disappointed.

Source: http://vakavalo.com/