POP MART, Funko, Mattel: who is actually winning?

In the video: 2025 financial results, comparison with Funko, Hasbro, Mattel, Bandai Namco, and Lego, character dynamics from Molly to Labubu, five reasons for the stock drop, and three scenarios for 2026.

What connects a Soviet spacesuit and contemporary design? The cosmonaut UNIO has the answer

UNIO cosmonaut by Hong Kong artist Jackie Lam (009) and an unboxing of the Space Walker mini-series by Pop Mart, 2023.

Labubu, KAWS, Murakami, and others: a walkthrough of the Super Toys: Art Inside exhibition.
A designer toy exhibition — a live tour through the halls with commentary on the artists, platforms, and cultural context of the art toy movement.

Danil Yad: how designer toys are made in Russia
We talk about finding the balance between someone else's imagery and your own artistic language, why explaining the meaning of your work matters, and what it means to make art that speaks for itself.

Pop Mart is not just a success story. It's the story of how a retail platform found the language of art toys, put it on a conveyor belt, and changed the collectible toy market forever.

The Inspector with a cloud for a head was created by illustrator Jonathan Edwards, shaped by the punk graphics of Deadline magazine in the 1990s. His line is rough, ironic, full of character — a direct inheritance from the British graphic school.

What if there's another Moscow alongside the real one — a celestial one, built by birds? The story of the Birds-of-Moscow project: how a 2016 sketch became a decade-long journey, from early drawings to a gallery installation.

The pilot episode of Center of Gravity — a long conversation about character design, artistic practice, and creative production.

Observer by Mars-1 and STRANGEco — a 2005 figure from the golden age of designer toys.

The story of Rat Fink — the ugly green rat that became a symbol of American custom culture and found a second life in Japan.

The story of Haircut Devil by Tokyo duo Gumliens. How a line of «cute» minimalist characters made as one-off resin art pieces led to abstract soft vinyl kaiju.

Four cities, dozens of names, hundreds of collaborations — the story of how designer toys, street art, music, and Japanese sofubi culture weave together into the fabric of contemporary visual culture.

2005. We bring designer toys to Russia — something nobody here was waiting for. That's how Lunohod-1 was born. A store in form, a cultural mission in fact.

A story about how an encounter with the inexplicable becomes a creative method.

Artist Carrie Chau created this figure in 2007. But she didn't know then that this image would change her entire life. A story about creativity that knows more than its creator.

Why Japanese artist T9G hides his monsters behind masks — and how the ugly-cute aesthetic turns a toy into art.

Sometimes a few blurry photographs are enough to create a legend. The story of the Biorobot Collie project — an example of how fiction wearing the mask of a document becomes myth.

The Dots figure connects Japanese collectible toy culture, mid-century design, and the legacy of the Bandai brand.

Ten styles of designer toys — and many ways to find yourself. I talk about how to recognize what resonates with you specifically, and how to turn that into your own unique voice — in your creative work, your collection, and your style.

Why is everyone talking about Labubu? And why it's not just «some plush thing.»