It’s been a while but here’s the first look at ENLEME’s figure; Mr. Douchamp.  The form is inspired by Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain but enleme has mixed his own playful nature into it. The figure itself represents Duchamp’s ideologies of fringe art, which enleme ironically calls “art of an anti-art form”.

“Clearly, I know making a toy that depicts an actual form of a human with a urinal shape as its head, it is really going against what Duchamp stands for in his “readymade” work. But making an anti-art into an art form is what I chose to go for. ” – ENLEME

Check out the images below to see the prototype. We will be making 100 of these, 45 white, 45 black and 10 mystery custom ones by the artist. These will go for $15 each. Stay tuned for the release.

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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