Guides, how-tos and collecting know-how for art toy fans.
Discover how GISMOW Hide & Seek brings character design into play through sitting and standing poses, interchangeable headgear and flocked textures. The story also looks at FUNCINATING’s approach to shared experiences through its GISMOW × SOURI collaboration.
Discover the creative network behind FUNCINATING, from Modian.com’s crowdfunding community to Lockerr’s original IP creators. Explore how these roots shape our approach to character collectibles and creative partnerships, including GISMOW’s collaboration with ZIYU.
Bag charms aren't slowing down in 2026. From charm stacking to post-Labubu characters, here's where the trend goes next and what to hang on your strap.
Priced out or sold out of Jellycat? These plush blind boxes and charms deliver the same soft-character joy, in stock and starting under $10.
KOUCOMI is Funcinating's attitude IP: a little troublemaker who runs her own subjective universe and crowns her own small rebellions.
CALOR is Funcinating's warm, dessert-bright IP, built around a little life artist and her Angel's Kitchen of emotion-spirit chefs.
If Labubu got you into collecting, here are the art toy series worth a look, a few of them ours and several of them not.
A six-step illustrated guide to attaching a KOUCOMI bag charm using its fabric loop and ring clasp.
