*A prototype is shown. Final product may slightly vary.

Hi all,  

I am Ilya and I am from Russia. Me and my friends, we live in Moscow and we are into photography, graphic design and book design; apart from that, we have a collection of designer vinyl toys.  

Today we would like to present a project, which is unique for our country – an art book fully dedicated to designer collectibles. The book is a collection of fantastic photographs made by our good friend, one of the most well-known Russian toy collector and toy photographer Roman Shevchenko, aka AlPred on the net. 

Roman started collecting designer toys in 2009 and his collection had been growing bigger and bigger up to 2014. Within five years he created a unique collection featuring a lot of rare and exclusive action figures. Some of them were produced as a single copy and some were even custom made personally for Roman. 

Roman was an active member of the toy community; he visited fairs all around the world, talked to designers. He was so open, communicative and enthusiastic that he got along with everyone who had a chance to get to know him. He became quite well-known in the global toy community; so after he passed away in 2014, Coarsetoys released an action figure of Omen Fade as a tribute to him. We are grateful to the company founders Mark and Sven for granting us the right to use the sketch of Omen on our book cover. It is extremely important for us.    

Roman was the biggest contributor to the popularity of designer toys in Russia, largely thanks to his photographs. He did not just take photos of the action figures, every time he told a little story and introduced the figure from a very special, different angle. The figures were not just part of Roman’s collection, in his photos they came to life and acted as characters of lots of stories. His pictures always stirred interest and motivated the others not just to collect figures, but to be creative while doing it. 

This book contains photographs of toys by various designers, from mass produced figures by Ashley Wood and Coarse to single custom-made ones by Jon-Paul Kaiser and Squink.  

The book is truly valuable because many of the figures in it are rare or unique, it is not easy to find their photos even online. Moreover, the book is made up not just from standard catalogue shots, these are awesome pictures – at times funny, at times sad, at times gloomy, at times romantic, but never leaving the viewer indifferent. We also included in the book Romans ideas on collecting, photography and on his own collection.  

The following designers can be found in the book: Ashley Wood, Angry Woebots, Blamo Toys, Captain HH, Coarse, Ferg, Jon-Paul Kaiser, Kenny Wong, Luke Chueh, Michael Lau, Mr. Clement, Squink and many others.  

The main goal of our project is to treasure Roman’s memory, show and share his creative work with the public. Besides, we are hoping that the funds that we manage to collect will not only cover the printing, but will be enough to pass on to Roman’s family, his wife and children. 

At the moment the book has already been made up, a proof copy has been printed and we are ​gathering money to start printing the whole lot. 

Specs:

• Text language: Russian and English 
• Hardcover 
• 21х26 cm (8.2 x 10.2 inches) 
• 320 pages

Perk details:

​Choose your perk by selecting it from the right hand column at the top of the page.

• $150   Hall of fame  (Hardcover Book + acknowledgement in the Book )  
• $5       Thanks!
• $10     Thank you!          
• $20     Many thanks!              
• $50     Hardcover Book     
• $100   Two Hardcover Books          
• $150   Three Hardcover Books

Timeline:

• November – December 2016 – Indiegogo Campaign
• January 2017 – Production and quality check
• February 2017 – Start shipping

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Other ways you can help:

If you can’t contribute financially, we completely understand. There a still other ways you can help! Share the campaign on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat and other. Or just copy-and-paste this page’s link and share in any way you wish! Don't forget to use our hashtag #alpredbook

We hope that you find this project interesting and worth being part of it!

Thank you!

Our team:

• Maria Kaner - Art direction and design
• Ilya Kaner - Production and design
• and our friends who very helped