I’ve Never iPhone app

The I’ve Never iPhone application.

The I’ve Never… game that Monkey Doodle Dandy designed for INI Inc. now has an iPhone version! CLICK HERE if you have iTunes loaded. I am absolutely certain that this should be even more fun on the iPhone. Think about it… in this world where sound bites and video clips inform and entertain us more than ever, a quick game of I’ve Never could be just what you need to break up the monotony of that morning subway ride :)

I’ve never… bought an iPhone.
If true: What are you waiting for?
If not true: Why haven’t you clicked yet?

Squarey™ Monsters are here!

After a lot of work, we've finished designing the characters, and putting up the site. We are proud to announce our latest concept turned property available for license…

SQUAREY MONSTERS!
Please click above, and take a look

We’d love it if you would buy something from the store too ;)

Not Squared of success

Elaine’s friend Pete posted this pic along with a link to squaredycats.com today. We’re glad to see that people are liking our new Squaredy Cats. Thanks, Pete :)
See Pete’s Daily Booth post here, and click through to see more of his daily pics.

Squaredy Cats™ is go!

We’ve launched the site to our newest property available for license.

Monkey Doodle Dandy will be exhibiting at Licensing Show in June (booth 1153), and we have a few new surprises in store. We would love to hear feedback from you on the designs in the link below.

We are pleased to introduce Squaredy Cats™
squaredycats.com

If you like it, please pass it along.

Let the GAMES begin!

This link is to iVillage hottest toys of 2009 based on Toy Fair. #8 Of 15 is a Tara Toy game called Meatball Madness. It’s not something we worked on here at Monkey Doodle Dandy, but we have done games for Tara Toy, and even a few for other companies. It’s great to see Tara move in the direction of games.
We’ve done a lot of work for Tara over the years. We had our monkey paws all over some of what you see here.

Here’s a game we designed for INI, Inc. Last year I did this illustration for INI’s successful drinking game. It was repackaged with this illustration on the box.


Since the game is based on a classic, it made sense that it should be applied to kids. Pictured below is the game we designed for INI’s kids’ version. It will be in stores soon, but here’s a link so you can buy it now!

Wildlife Control

The studio is still new enough that it's still kind of messy. That explains why I was outside in a t-shirt in the snow breaking down cardboard boxes for recycling. That doesn't explain the funky Wildlife Control vehicle parked across the street.
I hightailed it back inside for fear that someone reported wild monkeys running around in the neighborhood. Hey, at least these monkeys recycle!

Here’s an image showing just some of the Christmas cookies Elaine baked. We sent them out to as many friends and colleagues as we could. There were somewhere over a thousand cookies that we put in our custom tins. Sadly, I forgot to take a picture of the tins, and we sent all 72 out!
Here’s the image I made to put on the tins as a sticker. We also based the holiday card on this.

New studio!

Monkey Doodle Dandy has moved into a new studio. We still have the 17th Street address in Park Slope, Brooklyn; but now we have another small space on 5th Avenue in Park Slope.

I’ll post pictures when the place is more presentable. Right now, we have things in working order, but we are having shelves put in. We’ll pose once the floor is cleared, and boxes are unpacked.

Hopefully there won’t be any more setbacks like the one where I started a fire in the shredder. That was a close one. Lesson learned. Keep screw drivers away from uncovered light switches ;) Phew! That was a close one!

TRU T-Rex

Elaine and the Toys R Us T-Rex.

Elaine and Kurt went to Toys R Us for research. If you’ve been to the TRU in Manhattan you’ve seen this, but we are riveted by their Jurassic Park life-size T-Rex every time.

Monster book by colleague

My old art director, Timothy Young, from my first toy industry job at the bizarre and now defunct idea factory has just had his first book published! It is called I'm Looking for a Monster, published by Random House. Lift the flaps and pull the tabs to find the monsters. I will admit that I haven't seen it in person, yet, but I'm pretty sure that it will be awesome and maybe just a little bit SCARY!