the Wry Baby Blog

My pal, the genius copywriter, Andrew Tonkin (see his work at www.wordsandrewtonkin.com), sent me these wonderful childrens records. While they are scratched up beyond belief, they are sure still pretty to look at. Not many people know that I do the art and design work for Wry Baby’s entire line of fun baby clothes and shower gifts. When I look at these records, I totally want to get into children’s music just so Wry Baby can make something like this. A set of these would be such a great baby gift. Even as wall art.

The illustrations are just fab. I can never figure out why modern kids stuff isn’t made like this anymore. It makes me want to get Wry Baby into the kids record biz.Not that there aren’t cool baby things out there now, but wouldn’t you totally buy this today? These records were released by The Record Guild of America in the late 40’s - early 50’s. They’re similar to super spendy Vogue picture discs that I’ve seen in used record stores. Andrew got these for a song (get it?) but they go for about $15 on ebay. I so wish Wry Baby made something like this today.

If you like these, you may like the retro coolness of our not-as-dusty line of baby toys, games for Mom and Dad and cool baby books at www.wrybaby.com