Since wrapping up our first project, the team has had many discussions on the direction of the company and who we should be working with next. Of course it helps having an OCAD student (Paddy not Patrick Leung) on the team to network with other aspiring artists from Toronto. Of all the artists she had contact with one stepped up big time and really pulled through with a proposal that we all thought was pretty dope. Upon discussing the proposal we all agreed that we’ve found our next project. So late last week all of us met up with the artist to layout plans for this upcoming project.

Introducing ENLEME. ENLEME is a graduate from OCAD. While majoring in Illustration Designs, ENLEME became fascinated with toys after taking a business course taught by Steve Cober (owner of Magic Pony). And during his 4th year of study ENLEME began designing and making his own line of toys which was featured in his Grad show and later in another Gallery show.

Citing inspiration from Michael Lau, KAWS, Ron English and various other established artists. ENLEME’s work features a healthy dose of bright colours to go along with his simple yet distinguishable designs. Which makes his work very eye catching and it’s definitely something to look for in a designer toy. Having said that we look forward to working with ENLEME. We already have the design of the toy finished, but that’s for another post. So stay tuned for more. Remember, you can keep up with us on Twitter or subscribe to our RSS feed or just keep coming back the site for future updates.

- David

darkmattersonline.ca is now up and running. This was quite a challenge, in a little over 3 weeks I managed to know absolutely nothing about making a website to making a fully functional one. Well the site is not perfect, for some reason some of the page shifts like 2 pixels, if somebody can explain to me why this happens, please let me know.

Anyways, feel free to click around and check out some of the contents. We got a feature interview with our friend/partner about our debut project “NGA4″. We also have some shots from our product shoot with Michael Ching uploaded in our gallery section, so be sure to check that out also.

Our online store isn’t ready yet for one obvious reason, because we’re still got some time before our actual release date so be sure to look out for that in about a week (NGA4 dropping 10/31/09).

If anybody is interested in working with us in future projects, please refer to the guideline in our contact section and email me at info -[at] darkmattersonline.ca.

I also want to thank the darkmatters team for being patient with me, since I took so long finishing this page. It’s my first and it was a heck of an experience.

Last but not least, I want to thank everybody who’s been checking up on us and giving us your support. We really appreciate it, and this is just the beginning for us. The best has yet to come!

- David

What’s up everybody, welcome to our page (don’t laugh I know that sounded funny). “darkmatters” is a small toy company founded by yours truly along a few good friends of mine. What we are trying to do with “darkmatters” is to work with different artists within Toronto to promote their art/bring them to life so to speak and to establish us as a Toronto based toy company. What started out as a normal conversation about our summers soon turned into discussions about the possibilities of starting and running our own business. A few months later and after countless hours dedicated to this project I am proud to say we are within arms reach from the starting line and officially dive ourselves into “the toy making business” (I know that sounded funny also). Initially starting out, I had some doubts of making all of this a possibility, because 1) we had no idea what we are doing or should be doing, 2) we needed funding 3) and as the old saying goes “never go into business with your friends”. But turns out those obstacles were not as difficult to iron out as we had originally thought and honestly the team that we have (Dexter, Jeremy, Teddy, Jefford + Paddy) there’s no other people I would do this with then them. Most of them I know for a very long time now (except for Jefford) and I trust them all, because at the end of the day that’s all we can rely on is trusting in each other to make this all work.

With this site as well as our Twitter page, you can see updates from members of the team. We’ll try to keep this as up to date as possible. With our first models coming soon, as well as various sketch ideas of upcoming projects, there should be a lot of interesting materials popping up soon. So keep your eyes peeled.