UnBeige@NYIGF: Write On, DFC!

Today’s installment of covetables discovered at the recent New York International Gift Fair (NYIGF)’s Accent on Design division is heavy on the whimsy. Even the most recession-ravaged gift buyer couldn’t walk by DFC‘s Mexican fiesta of a NYIGF booth without smiling. Welcoming visitors to the maximalist world of design duo Tony Moxham and Mauricio Paniagua (proud purveyors of “pretty things, big things, bright things, and shiny things”) was this four-foot-tall fiberglass bear, whose hand-painted coat doubles as a blackboard.