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Latex For Fun

Hurrah! Poor people need never be bored again! Or so say the team behind toy design project, Latex for Fun. Founder and designer Max-o-matic put forth the challenge to create an affordable toy using nothing more than DIY ethos and a balloon. ‘It started by chance’, he explains. ‘I found a bag of balloons at work and started drawing over them. It was so simple and so catchy and at that point, I knew this was something really cool and invited other people to join in. In that precise moment the Latex for Fun project came to life’. Entries have been pouring in from all over the world and the team will now narrow them down to a selection for display in a book and exhibition in Barcelona later this year. ‘The reaction was fantastic. It was quite a shock seeing that in only a few months we had tonnes of awesome submissions from great artists from all over the world. Gary Baseman said something that summarizes what many people thought of the project: “I love this stupid and incredible project”. It’s such a simple idea with so many possibilities – this will be quite an exciting year for latex lovers!’ [Tim Biskup's artwork above left; Sauerkids' work above right]

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