End inequitable orgasm!

[imomus]

A couple of cool things to show you before dashing for my Tokyo flight...

Rubenmichi are Ruben and Michi, a painter and a designer based in Madrid. They're branching out into making soft toys, and their latest 'rubenmichi pet' is... a Momus toy! Eat your heart out, Topo the rabbit! (Or mine, perhaps...)



The dolls are for sale, apparently.

I spent a few hours today writing my new piece for the AIGA Voice, 'Design as Religion'. These little sermons are commissioned by Steve Heller of AIGA. Steve is senior art director of the NYT Book Review and a one-man industry when it comes to design books. Googling for his e mail address I found this tremendously cool photo of Steve from his New York Free Press days (back in 1968, in fact) and thought I'd share it with you. 'End Inequitable Orgasm' is the most succinct fusion of Marx and Freud I think I've heard.

Comments

[sarmoung.livejournal.com]

Wonderful! I shall consider stocking Momus dolls when I open my shop next year. I was going to avoid character goods, but I may just make an exception in this case. Obviously I'd want a range of about four or so (Creation Momus, Shibuya-kei Momus, White Archer and so forth) to help establish a healthy pre-teen craze for collecting them. In which case I end up penniless in a flat surrounded by the little buggers when the bottom falls out of the market. I can already see tartan-loined schoolgirls waking in the morning to find one reclining on the pillow in a nod to the Black Magic adverts of yore.

For some reason, the doll made me think you should get little eyepatches made to decorate Jizo statues. Momus was here... (No intended mizuko kuyo reference there, I was thinking more of your roadside Jizo)