Designer Con 2013



















It's the most wonderful time of the year!

Hey all,

Tomorrow and Sunday, Designer Con is being held at the Pasadena Convention Center.

"What is DesignerCon?

Designer Con is an annual art and design convention that smashes together collectible toys and designer apparel with urban, underground and pop art!"

http://www.designercon.com/

Tickets are $5 online and $7 at the door:

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This is a great show. Probably my favorite convention of the year next to ALF Con.

It's 2 days this year so come on down and see how the toys are made.

It's great for kids too.

Here's a list of what I've got in store...

http://nathanhamill.blogspot.com/search/label/designercon

I'll be doing 2 signings...

Sat at 1pm at booth Urban Vinyl Daily booth #315
Sun at 2pm at booth 3DRetro booth #104


Hope to see you there.

Love,

N.

Octoplush
















"OctoPlush" is a Flat Bonnie x Nathan Hamill collaboration, based on the Octopup vinyl.

Flat Bonnie will be debuting the plush and taking pre-orders at Designer-Con this weekend.















Plush info:

OctoPup - OctoPlush

Limited Edition - Litter of 10
Handmade 12” Plush - $100 + shipping

Debut and Pre-Order at Designer-Con Nov. 9-10, 2013.


Flat Bonnie - Booth 705
Online pre-order 11/11/13 - 12/20/13
www.FlatBonnie.com (http://www.flatbonnie.com/)
Shipping will start Jan. 6th, 2014

Made of animal friendly vinyl pleather and soft fleece.
Comes with special edition, numbered sewn-in tag.
















UPDATE: Online pre-orders are now being taken: http://shop.flatbonnie.com/product/octoplush-pre-order-by-flat-bonnie-x-nathan-hamill

Pronto Pixel x Nathan Hamill : "Lavalifer" Giclee Print













































This Saturday,  at Designer Con,  I'll be releasing a limited edition giclee print of a collaboration with artist Pronto Pixel.  Entitled "Lavalifer," the print features my character, Lavabear, exploring Pronto Pixel's world. 

14 x 17"
Ed. of 8
$30

Available at Designer Con
3DRetro booth # 104

Strife & Sire: Firefly Ed.























3DRetro and I will be releasing an all new colorway of Strife & Sire entitled the Firefly Ed. at Designer Con this year. This glow in the dark, silver and black colorway stands 7" tall, is limited to 150 pieces and retails for $50.

 They will be available Sat., Novemeber 9th at Designer Con
3DRetro booth #104

 I'll be on hand signing at the 3DRetro booth on Sunday, November 10th at 2PM.























"Whispers and hints from days long past. Tell us tales of haunted spells cast...Strife, a Warrior Imp of Calendula, was an attendant and protector of the once mighty but now fallen god, Sire. Though only his skull remains, Strife is a loyal creature through and through. He still watches over Sire in death, awaiting his prophesied return."

Strife & Sire: Firefly Ed.
Vinyl
7"
150 pieces

Nathan Hamill x Urban Vinyl Daily: Curiosity "Haunten Edition"

















For this year’s Designer Con, Urban Vinyl Daily  are releasing an all new colorway of my ‘Curiosity’ resins. The ‘Haunten Ed.’ of this 5″ figure features randomly poured light blue glow in the dark in translucent resin. This limited edition release of 8 figures, produced by Oni Creations, will be signed/numbered, sold blind and retail for $70 each at the Urban Vinyl Daily booth #315 starting at 9am on Saturday, November 9th.
































They will also have the ‘Haunten Special Ed.’ This edition of 3 figures will also release at 9am on Saturday November 9th and will retail for $100 each. 
Urban Vinyl Daily will be making these available in the UVD store HERE at the same time (9am PST) for those that cannot attend the show.

 I'll  be on hand to sign at the booth Saturday at 1pm

Breaking Binks

"Breaking Binks"

for "The 99 Deaths of Jar Jar"

8.5 x 11"

Ink on Bristol

DKE Toys presents “The 99 Deaths of Jar Jar”

A two day only group art show exclusively at

Designer Con 2013

Saturday, November 9 & Sunday, November 10,  9am – 5pm

Pasadena Convention Center, 300 East Green Street, Pasadena CA 91101

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

DKE Toys presents “The 99 Deaths of Jar Jar”, a group art show featuring 99 artists. Each artist was asked to submit a black and white, pen and ink illustration on an 8.5 x 11 sheet of paper and chose one way to maim, torture, and/or kill our least favorite Gungan.

Participating Artists Include:

64 Colors - A Little Stranger - Doktor A. - akirophoto - Ardabus Rubber - Asaad - Atila - Jason Atomic - Super Cooper Berella - Bigfoot - Joemm Blanche of CBNC - Botsch - Jon Burgerman - Candy - Nate Carle - Luke Chueh - Nicholas Dewey - Luis Diaz - Mike Egan - Dez Einswell - Brent Engstrom - Gus Fink - Frédéric Fleury - Brian Flynn - Steve (Go Hero) Forde - Free Humanity - Renee French - Gregg Gibbs - Darren Goldman - Dan Goodsell - Grenadier Stinny - James Hakola - Gary Ham - Nathan Hamill - Joshua Herbolsheimer - Jesse Hernandez - Francisco Herrera - Kerry Horvath - I Heart Guts - Jay222 - Jeremyville - JSalvador - kaNO - KiLL! - Sun-Min Kim + David Horvath - Scott Kinnebrew - Jim Koch - Frank Kozik - Wade Lageose - L'amour Supreme - Leecifer - LiLJAPAN - Abe Lincoln Jr. - Jerome Lu - Madtwiinz - Jim Mahfood aka Food One - Man One - Manly Art - Marka27 - Randy Martinez - Mauricio Tubesteak - El Maz - MCA - William Luke Miller - Miso - Nate Mitchell Squid Kids Ink - Nick the Ring - Brent Nolasco - Mitch O'Connell - Odio - olive47 - Jordan Owen - Virva Peikko - Ritzy Periwinkle - The Pizz - Playful Gorilla - PodgyPanda - Poulin Eurlegg - Dave Pressler - Ted Rall - Rob Reger -   Renone - Jermaine Rogers - D. Ross "scribe" - Johnny Ryan - Phil Ryan - Dave Savage - SERBAN - Skinner - Bwana Spoons - Scott Tolleson - Triclops Studio - twerps! - Gustavo Alberto Garcia Vaca - valleyDweller - Denise Vasquez - Scott Wilkowski - Neil Winn - David Zajdman

Jar Jar Binks was contacted for comment about the event and noted about the show, “Why meesa so hated?”

This art show is not sponsored or endorsed by Lucasfilm, and has no relationship with them in any way. 

Jar Jar Binks and all related intellectual property is copyright and/or registered to Lucasfilm Ltd. & TM. All rights reserved. But who would really want to own the rights to Jar Jar anyway.  Go step in poo doo.

Rumor has it that there may or may not be a corresponding collectable program (er.. crappy zine.. er..something) but that remains to be seen. Show up for more details…

Images will be posted here  

http://www.flickr.com/photos/

dketoys/sets/

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