my toys

Hey, I recently made a coroflot folder for my toy designs: good times.

Nice stuff Mike!


lookin good!

K

as usual, great stuff.

your looser, playful sketch quality really works for the toy concepts, and great use of color.

R

Nice work!

You are one well rounded designer…not many people are capable of the range of styles you have in you have. I love the phone design and the VTech ride-on foam.

Thanks for posting it!

nice to see a more relaxed rendering style

Thanks guys.

Opto, when I started doing toys in '99 I really sucked at it, I took it as a challenge. It is a very difficult product category to get in child play patterns, costing, make it attractive to parents, shelf appeal… and sneak in some good design! Once I got kind of OK at it though, it became really fun. Aaron Szymanski and Scott Johnstone really taught me a lot while I was at Evo… I did a lot of toy work while there, I’ll have to pull some more off my archive CD’s, I have a TON!

The ride on is one of my favorites…
rideonSM.jpg

Thanks man, I admire your portfolio for the same thing! I just really love designing all kinds of things. Honestly, its fun.

The phone is another favorite of mine:
drV5.jpg

you guys do some great work

here is a favorite of mine