Designer Activity through Open Source Knowledge: Designer Toys Movement

In this study, it was planned to define and classify designer/art toys movement which is a movement that has effect on 21st century consumerist culture and design approaches, shaped with urban small manufacturing workshops or garage manufacturing and has become widespread with the help of Web 2.0“Desi gner Toys” which is also named as “Urban Toys, Urban Vinyls, Art Toys” which has been developing since the end of 1990's and defined as artistic/design movement today occurs with the perception of aesthetic and production-consumption which improved with DIY culture in the sense of approach and idea.In this study, movement of designer toys will be analyzed and classified focusing on DIY culture and its original object within the scope of DIY argument and activity.