As part of XFUNS Magazine’s upcoming 16-day XFUNS Gala to be held in May 2006 in Taiwan, 65 artists around the world have been asked to customize… an XFUNSer as part of the My XFUNSer design exhibition. What’s an XFUNSer? A block of maple wood shaped like an ‘X’ with eight holes — for legs, arms, shoes, etc. The concept is a little unusual, but the results so far have been pretty darn cool. Here are the XFUNSer pieces from designers around the globe including Tweeqim (miQ willmOtt and Thuy3), Jim Koch, Nathan Spoor , and Attaboy. I’m really enjoying the transformation of the simple block of wood into new toy forms — Tweeqim’s wood blocks (awesome painting Thuy!) and Jim Koch’s scary two-headed clown marionette. Thanks to Xenia and XFUNS for providing these great pics.
Tweeqim
Jim Koch
Katoh Rikiya
Erik Siador
Tim Tsui
NIN
Wei-Dong Huang
Rinzen
Tommy Li
Noriya Takeyama
Museum
Kaijin
Devil Robots
MakeOne
Mari Araki
Jackson
Lucien Shapiro
Crazycult
Mark Chang
Mad Barbarians
Furi Furi
Nathan Spoor
DOMA
UPSO
Jason Sho Green
The Little Friends
Erin and Kelly Carty
Attaboy
Alice Chan
Touma
Derek Welch (UnklBrand)
Ryan Bubnis
Anthony Ausgang
Jon Burgerman
Stanley Wong
The Erik Siador piece rocks.