Full Vinyl: The Subversive Art of Designer Toys
Ivan Vartanian is an author, editor and the founder of Goliga Books, Inc., a book-packaging company specializing in art, photography, and design. His publications on art include:Full Vinyl: The Subversive Art of Designer Toys, an overview of hundreds of the world's most popular miniature collectible figures and the inspired creators behind them,Andy Warhol: Drawings and Illustrations of the 1950s, which traces the artist's ten years of work as a commercial illustrator before his re-invention as a pop artist and impresario,Egon Schiele: Drawings and Watercolors, a comprehensive chronology of the artist's rapid development as a master of human expression before his death at the age of 28, andDrop Dead Cute: The New Generation of Women Artists in Japan, a survey of contemporary drawing in Japan. His design books include:Now Loading . . . : The Aesthetics of Web Graphics, a survey of cutting-edge web design,Graphiscape: New York CityandGraphiscape: Tokyo, a series of books about &#8220;found graphics&#8220; that define the graphic sense of major cities, andTypoGraphics, a look at the overlap between graphics and type. His photography books include the monographsStudio Portrait: A Documentary of Yoshitomo Nara,Kamaitachi: Photographs by Eikoh Hosoe, and the anthologySetting Sun: Writings by Japanese Photographers. Ivan Vartanian lives in Tokyo, Japan.