Description

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Recapture an innocent era of boundless commercial creativity in a beautifully illustrated tome featuring some of the greatest toys NEVER made (but wouldn’t your world have been a better place if they had been?). It's also a tribute to the unbridled imaginations and madcap design and illustrative skills of the toy creators who drew inspiration from the robots, movie monsters, comic books and military men that kids adored, as well as the limitless possibilities of the space age. Showcased in catalogs, comics, trading cards, drug store and department store displays, somehow these geniuses knew what we wanted before we did. Marty Baumann has drawn inspiration from these incredible creators and extrapolated on those outlandish and appealing ideas, developing and illustrating an amazing array of fictional toys that reflect that optimistic era.

About the Author

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Marty Baumann is an illustrator, graphic artist, and production designer. He has contributed to some of the most popular, Oscar-winning animated films of all time.

Marty has worked as an artist at Walt Disney Pictures and Pixar Animation Studios as an illustrator, graphic artist, and production designer on such films as Toy Story 3, Big Hero 6, Zootopia, Cars 2, Planes, Mater's Tall Tales, and many others. He also helped develop theme park installations, toy packaging, and Pixar corporate branding.

Marty has rendered illustrations and developed characters for toy manufacturers, magazines and newspapers, illustrated children's books, created logos, info-graphics, broadcast promotions and presentation art for Hasbro, Universal Studios, McDonald's, National Geographic, Scholastic Books, Nickelodeon and many others.

Recent projects include his role as concept artist for the new Mystery Science Theater 3000, and the visual development of Sir Paul McCartney's feature film, High in the Clouds.

He lives in Arlington, Va. with his wife, Pat, and their dog, Summer. He encourages everyone to adopt at least one dog.

More information is available at www.martybaumann.com.

Praise For…

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"I've loved working with Marty at Pixar. His brilliant typography and illustration have added so much to the quality of every Pixar film he’s touched. Marty’s a born storyteller, and in Toybox Time Machine he perfectly conjures a wonderful world of toys that really should have been!" –Harley Jessup, production designer, Pixar's Monsters, Inc., Ratatouille, The Good Dinosaur

"Marty is a creative juggernaut! His artistic sensibilities in print, animation, and overall design are fresh, fun and distinctive. He and his work are a delight." –Ferrell Barron, producer, Walt Disney Pictures

"An inherently fascinating and entertaining browse (especially for the Babyboomer generation), Toybox Time Machine: A Catalog of the Coolest Toys Never Made will prove to be an enduringly popular addition to personal and community library collections." —Midwest Book Review