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Rotofugi Designer Toy Store & Gallery, established in July 2004, is located on the border of Chicago's Lincoln Park and Lakeview neighborhoods in a beautiful vintage building. Since opening, Rotofugi has grown to become one of the world's premier sellers of designer toys from artists all over the world. Rotofugi features a diverse selection of vinyl figures, capsule toys, plush and more from both eastern and western designers. The adjoining Rotofugi Gallery features monthly art exhibits by a range of both local and nationally known artists. Beginning in late 2007 Rotofugi partnered with Chicago based product development specialist Squibbles Ink to begin producing artist-designed figures by the talented designers located in their home town. Click here for more information on Squibbles Ink + Rotofugi projects. Rotofugi is owned and operated by husband and wife duo Kirby and Whitney Kerr. You can find the couple in and around the store on most days. They love to talk about toys and art. Mark Brown spent his childhood in an imaginary world. On cool days, Mark could be found running amok in the woods designing, constructing, and defending tree fort cities from sudden attacks by blood thirsty ninja hoards. On hot days, he spent his time building and testing fleets of wooden rafts, which he needed in his search for strange undiscovered forms of aquatic life. On rainy days, he was usually lost in the pages of epic struggles or bizarre facts at the local library. One day, he decided to leave all that behind, and head out into the real world. Having nothing to show for his 12 years of schooling but the mountains of doodles and sketches he had secretly created when he should have been studying science and history, he applied to be an apprentice paste-up artist for a nearby print shop. Many years and many jobs later, after putting the finishing touches on an especially dreary illustration of a new dairy cow pregnancy test, he realized the real world wasn't quite what he thought it would be. Deciding that enough was enough, he tossed it all and headed back to his dreams, where he was surprised to learn that even in an imaginary world, time passes, Acrylic paint is fast drying paint containing pigment suspension in acrylic polymer emulsion. Acrylic paints can be diluted with water, but become water-resistant when dry. Depending on how much the paint is diluted (with water) or modified with acrylic gels, media, or pastes, the finished acrylic painting can resemble a watercolor or an oil painting, or have its own unique characteristics not attainable with other media.