These slip cast porcelain wares are hand made in Brooklyn, NY.

Available to retailers only. If you want to get your grubby little hands on a piece, urge your local design store, table top shop, or gallery to buy into the line.

-Tonky

Whereas the acrylic stuff is funky and fun, these porcelain”lens” necklaces are elegant and delicious. Those words aren’t really dichotomously opposed pairs. Eh well.

Nevertheless, the single disks (black, red, white) are on long chains, so they can double as soy sauce dishes if you find yourself at a sushi picnic with no vessel.

The “constellation” necklace features white porcelain lenses connected with oxidized sterling silver hardware. Not too shabby if I do say so myself.

-Tonky

Howdy partners,

Not much sleep these days. Hard at work shooting some of my freshly minted designs.
What do you think of the new laser cut acrylic jewelry?

Above we have:
-Oversized Clinky Necklaces
-Back to Basics Bangles ( circle, square triangle)
- Transparent Color Paddle Necklace

-Tonky

We were up until 5am glazing our new line of functional clay wares. Everything is aesthetically tight and minimally glazed and the porcelain is so thin that firing will create a charming variation in each piece as a subtle warping occurs at red hot 2165 Degrees F.

The official drop date is August 15th at NYIGF here in NYC at the Javits center, but I wanted to give you a peak at some of the pre-fired forms. If you are attending the show come see us at Booth 3901 in the “Accent on Design” section.

The kiln is loaded and heating up so keep your fingers crossed. I’m really excited to see these things finished and glazed.

You can look forward to some tasty photographs within a week or so once the kiln has cooled. We have some gorgeous nesting bowls, modern platters inspired by TV dinner trays, and also ceramic JEWERLY for the first time!

all for now.

love,
-Tonky

Hello all,

We will be exhibiting our wall stickers, limited editions, and custom design services next week at the NYIGF (New York International Gift Fair).

The fair will serve as a launch platform for a number of never-seen-before new products and designs and hope you will consider stopping by to have a look

Tonky Designs can be found at booth #3901 in the “Accent on Design” section.

If you plan on attending, we would love to meet you so please RSVP by Jan 30 to receive free goodies ($35 Value) as thanks for your support and attention.

Please email us: info [at] TonkyDesigns.com with RSVP in the subject line.

See you there,
-Tonky

Just in time for the gift giving season we’re rolling out with a few designs made from 100% designer wool felt. Really excited to get these together in advance of NY International Gift Fair which Tonky Design will be showing at this Winter 2010.  Thanks for looking (and buying?)

-Tonky

Felt Sunny Side Egg Placemats ( 2pc. Set )

Silkscreened Die-Cut Felt – $32

Felt Martini Olive Coasters ( 4pc. Set )

Silkscreened Die-Cut Felt – $20

Alphabet Necklace

Sterling Silver & Laser Cut Felt – $75

Alphabet Wall Hanging & Table Mat

Laser-Cut Felt – $85

Hello,

Here is some new stuff to looks at, this time for the kiddies (or the young at heart). Stickers for your bathtub!

We are trying to keep prices down as low as possible for the holidays, so enjoy!
(Also note: FREE Shipping.)

-Tonky

Rubber Ducky Bathtub Stickies – 12-Pack – $24

Goldfish Bathtub Stickies - 12-Pack – $24

Variety Pack Bathtub Stickies – 8-Pack – $34

More coming soon.

Just wrapped up some health care advocacy propaganda for PublicOptionPlease.com. I designed these in the spirit of those great WPA posters advocating everything from worker safety to supporting the war effort.

The contest winner gets a cold $1000 and national distribution. The contest is being judged by Arianna Huffington, Margaret Cho, Aaron Rose, Jesse Dylan, Robbie Conal, Marshall Ganz, and Arlene Holt Baker

Hopefully they like the work!

I am selling an extremely limited edition of each design.
20″ by 30″ – Archival Ink Jet Prints
$50 ea. ( framed – $105 )
<CLICK HERE>

Every penny of profit gets donated to PublicOptionPlease.com. So feel comfortable voting with your wallets.

Click the thumbnails to see larger images:

-Tonky

This is one of the more labor intensive works I’ve made recently.

The title: The American Diorama refers to my ongoing thought experiment imagining this country a million years in the future.

Whether or not we are around still, I like to imagine what the dioramas depicting the USA will look like in the museums of a colonizing civilization of extraterrestrials.

This panel is made of birch and the medium is primarily acrylic paint layered and resisted. With some added collage elements.

-Tonky

If interested, For sale on Etsy HERE

Team,

Something new, an NYC Sewer Cover Wall Sticker. Like all of our Wall Graphics, this can be applied to any flat (clean) (dry) surface. Could look cool in a bathtub.

Yes, some might call it a “manhole” but that is a gender biased term and also possibly construed by a vulgar mind as R-rated.

-Tonky