Prisoner

Scratch gets a big grin piglet with thanks to 2Much's intricate illustration, Riccardo Bucchioni summons a ferocious, one-eyed orange lizard, UK artist Mr Gauky debuts with his first vinyl toy and makes it typically terrifying and Andreas Krapf gets a mini version of his popular Nom Nom and Pinky — we warned you about Nom Nom and his horrid hunger! Ted gets the Bunka 'Chaos Monkey' treatment, Dust recreates his iconic 'Prisoner' and Alfa debuts with the sinister looking and blood splattered 'Butcher'. The Dude gets the Attaboy touch of brilliance with the character 'Gustav' from his 'You Might Be A Monster' book. Germany's Mike Friedrich uses his wicked sense of off beat humour to create something truly peculiar and France's Grapheart returns with an abominable ape named 'Hucky'. These are all limited edition collectable vinyl mini figures that come blind boxed. A "blind box" is a type of packaging that hides its contents. It is like a game of lucky dip, which one will you get? Producer of the ultimate limited edition vinyl toys. We set out on an adventure to 'Inspire to create'. A burning love for art, design and everything to do with creative culture forced us to sow the Dudebox seed back in 2010. We really had no choice! Pure creative energy can't be held back. We have been surrounded by exciting visionaries and creatives from all around the world for a long time. Now, coming together as Dudebox we want to give these talented artists a new platform to express themselves from. Our motivation is simple. We want to INSPIRE TO CREATE! This is our mission statement and our mantra. It keeps us in mind of who we are doing this for and that is the artists, the collectors and anyone else who is new to the world of vinyl toys and wants to discover more He has been working under the pseudonym “dust” since 2000. His artistic background is Street art. In 2005 he graduated as licensed graphic artist. Since then he has been working as a freelance Designer and Illustrator. Through this field of activity, respectively projects and orderings he is able to foster his freelance work. He does illustrations and conceptualizations, but his freelance activities in the fields Contemporary Art and New Art fulfil him artistically. To design and to experiment, as well as the creation of sculptures, respectively Art/Design toys fill him with enthusiasm. Moreover the creation of Design toys form the main part of his occupation. He started his first Design toy collection in 2006 and his first turnout were the “RAS” (Radical Action Suit), which could be found, initially only as stickers or paintings, at various places/exhibitions.Later that year he accomplished to take the next step and created a 75mm tall Mastermodel, that watched over his working table. Several months later the first „RAS“ arrived in stores. In 2007 the „RAS“ were followed by „the teddies“ with the motto “Angst vorm Sterben?”( “afraid to die?”). All his Design toys are lavishly produced limited editions. They are manufactured in Germany and uniquely painted.