Newswhat others say...awww, thanks! |
Bust Magazine  We have loved Bust a very long time, and feel honored to be included on its Page O' Sh*t, comprising all sorts of menses-related gewgaws. Here's what they said: "A friendly stuffed uterus? Awesome! This plush could moonlight as the mascot for the National Bowlers Association!" {Aug/Sept 2008} |
LA Weekly  There's a lovely little story about Sarah Jo Marks, the wonderful woman who curated the Stuffed plush food show at Munky King late last year. I Heart Guts got a little teeny mention alongside the Frankenfoods Friends: "Frankenfoods (a.k.a., cheese with fangs, green steak, bloodthirsty martini). Also, human organs in plush format." {July 18, 2008} |
Geekologie  "First it was particle plushies, followed by microbe plushies, and now, for the win and trifecta, come plush guts. Each organ is about 6"-8" in size and run between $16-$20 (except for the limited edition heart of gold, that one will set you back $30). I personally just bought a backup liver and uterus but was disappointed to find they don't sell my favorite organ. You do know the one I'm talking about, don't you? The spleen, how can they not sell the spleen?" {July 2, 2008} Guts note: the spleen is coming...someday... |
CBS Life Sciences Education  "The steadily growing body of biological information makes it more challenging to preserve places in the curriculum to provide organismal and physiological context for students, and to cultivate deep thinking about how complex biological systems function through emergent properties of molecular mechanics. We are all interested in how our bodies work and are obsessed, if not enthralled, by our innards, or as one website would put it, 'we heart guts.'" {June 2008} |
Why Did the Insulin Die in My Pancreas?  "The folks at www.iheartguts.com are devoted to making internal organs come to life with snappy little catchphrases, and their products are perfect for those with a troublesome condition that is usually wrapped up in a stockpile of seriousness and only ever mentioned in hushed tones." {June 2008} |
Design You Trust  "I Heart Guts is the brainchild of an anatomically obsessed illustrator who loves internal organs and all they do. Founded in 2005, the company strives to offer the best in stoopid slogans paired with happy gloppy guts. They started out with one T-shirt and now their apartment is filled with tote bag guts, button guts, sticker guts, tons of tees, and now plush toys. Oy vey. If ever you need a gut, go on over and they’ll bust you one." {Mar. 31, 2008} |
Associated Press: Cuddly "Food" for Guilt-Free Fun  "At her friends' urging, 'Stuffed' curator Sarah Jo Marks made the move from kitchen curator to the real deal: organizing a plush food show at a local gallery. More than two dozen artists from around the world contributed items ranging from super-realistic cupcakes to Frankensteak, a green felt T-bone with a screw in his neck and a pained expression stitched across his face. "There's just something fun and cute about a doughnut you can cuddle,' said Wendy Bryan, creator of the 'Frankenfoods' line, which also features 'Night of the Living Bread' and 'Count Drinkula.'" {Mar. 24, 2008} |
 Plastic and Plush"The I Heart Guts group of plushies have grown by four internal organs. Brain Power (brain), Gimme Some Sugar (pancreas), Womb Service (uterus) and You've Got Gall (gallbladder) are the newest in the plush toy line. So when does this line go from being cute to just being creepy?" Answer: Quickly. Really quickly. {Mar. 13, 2008} |
Museums & More |
 Action Figure TimesWe'd like to think of the guts as action figures, but I guess you have to provide all the action yourself. "I remember reaching into my own toybox for my favorite plush toy when I wasn't feeling well. Back then it was a nice friendly bear. Well times have certainly changed and these days when you reach for plush it could be just about anything! Today we take a look at plush body parts by I Heart Guts. They have made a series of cool plushies based on human body parts. Each one comes with an informative tag and of course is soft and nice to hold. Take a look." {Feb. 24, 2008} |
Thrillist LA  "Only a jerk gives a Teddy Bear on V-Day. Instead, grab one of these smiling, plush internal organ dolls: heart, liver, lung, or kidneys -- which'll tell her, 'I thought I knew love before, but this is the renal thing.'" {Feb. 13, 2008} |
Toy Directory Monthly  "This entire guts set can be yours to cuddle or to give away (donate organs without having surgery)." {Jan. 2008} |
Cool Hunting Gift Guide  "A little gross and a little cute, the first collection of I Heart Guts plush toys include a liver, heart, lungs and a kidney and work as educational tools, "get well" gifts and props. Individual organs are $18, gift packs with t-shirts are $42 or all four go for $68 from I Heart Guts." {Dec. 1, 2007} |
BoingBoing  "I Heart Guts sells a line of plush internal organs for your little nipper to play with and chew on. " Comments: "Ah, plush Kidney. The sweet sweet memories of holding and whispering my dreams to it every night as a child." and "Awwww . . . those are so cute! Although just thinking about it, I'm not sure a kidney with a mouth and eyes would function very well." {11.02.2007} |
Dave Barry's Unofficial Blog  "Just when you think all the really useful products have been invented...vital-organ plush toys." Comments: "Awwwwww, ain't that cute! Sadie has her Momma's eyes, and her Daddy's liver!" and "Of all the Gall. I almost missed it 'cuz I was intestine for a new job. I'd like to buy a bowel, Pat." {11.03.2007} |
LAist
 "Currently running at Munky King on Melrose is a really great exhibit called Stuffed: A Plush Food Show. The show features over 30 different artists creating amazingly fun and cute stuffed foods of all kinds....One of my favorites from the show is the Frankensteak above which was created by I Heart Guts. I was able to see more of their work at Felt Club earlier this year, and their stuff is really great." {11.28.2007} |
Express
 "You'll never want to smoke/eat bacon/binge-drink again! The new I Heart Guts plushies — a ticker, kidney, lung and liver ($18 each, $68 for set, Iheartguts.com) — sport bright smiles and intelligent eyes. Do you really want to destroy your organ friends with foul habits? The cute/dumb slogans, such as "I'm a liver, not a fighter" and "When urine love," make them even harder to resist, though perhaps not if you're low on the transplant list. As we're also fans of Giant Microbes, we plan to stage a dramatic reenactment of tuberculosis, or perhaps hepatitis, as soon as possible." {11.14.2007} |
ToysREvil's I Like Toys  ""I'm a Liver Not a Fighter" ... "When Urine Love" ... pardon me as i bust my guts laughing, and no, these are not the latest pop nor retro tunnage titles, nor self-health novellas = these are the hangtag descriptions that come with I HEART GUTS' new series of Plush Internal Organs! featuring soft and cuddly, happy and (obviously) healthy plushed representations of heart, lung, liver and kidney, the hangtags also describe the inner lives of your organs and how they work (delightful and education = *nice*). distributed by DKE Toys, the plush-sizes measure around 8" X 6.5"-per organ and they are also currently available individually (US$18) or as a set of 4-plush organs (US$68) HERE - and now you can hugs your heart close to you... heart, and lung, and liver and kidney :)" {11.03.2007} |
| PopGadget  "A new line of plush guts has been released by i heart guts!, and we're giving away three of them over at Babygadget. The winners choose: heart, lung, kidney, or liver. The company also sells great t-shirts, stickers, buttons and totes for kids AND adults, that say things like "when urine love" and "I'm a liver not a fighter." How about a Black Lung t-shirt or a Gutsy Gift Pack (heart t-shirt, plush, button and sticker)?" {11.03.2007} |
BabyGadget  "i heart guts just debuted their new line of plush guts and we're giving away a gut of choice (heart, kidney, liver or lung) for three lucky winners. If you aren't familiar with the company, definitely visit the website as they have t-shirts for adults and babies, totes, stickers and buttons, all featuring clever little illustrations and humorous designs from creator Wendy Bryan. In addition to her wares, the company also teams up with transplant and other health organizations to raise funds." {11.02.2007} |
Black Book  "Looking for a unique way to express your love this holiday season? Check out these anatomically-correct plush internal organs from I Heart Guts, a clothing and accesories line that revels in your insides. In a number of bright colors, the plush guts run the gamut from five inches (the “When Urine Love” kidney) to nine inches (the “Don’t Hold Your Breath” lungs) to 13 inches (sorry, that’s a different thing altogether). For $18, these furry toys can transplant love back into any tired relationship. Creator Wendy Bryan explains, “We’re all just walking bags of guts anyway.” If you disagree, take it up with us, but liver alone. Get it, liver alone? —N.H." {11.01.2007} |
Cookie  Indulge Your Inner Kid is back, with lots of toys that are just too plain awesome to waste on your ungrateful children. Do you heart hearts? Or perhaps you harbor a special fondness for your liver, working overtime to rid your body of all the crap you inflict on it on a daily basis. And there's your lungs, sucking all the oxygen out of the air so you can live. Organs are cool. Yay for organs! The website I Heart Guts loves organs too. They've even created a line of organ stuffies. My personal fave, the Kidney Plush -- When Urine Love, which renders these useful little guys in all their purple and orange plushness. {11.06.2007} |
E-log.ch.net  Somebody in Japan likes guts and we heart Babelfish translations: "The internal organs it seems lovely and it is the sewing involving which the deformation is done. For the present there are four types of heart & kidney & liver & lung. It seems that is also goods such as T shirt and the small article where internal organs ?L????n are printed. It is what, the feeling independently may move about favorite selfishly, does. Don't you think? just a little "also the bean sprouts are" with make the fungus which appears in the cartoon which is said closely resembling." |
Little Oslo  More pure joy from Babelfish Translations, this time from a Chinese blog: " Internal organs cloth partner. body waste baby. virus wool doll. Fearful lovable, the bloody internal organs will change into the cloth partner, *&^$%@# will change is the baby, will enlarge the naked eye blind virus bacterium microorganism million times to make the wool doll the appearance, but the fear also will be lovable." Comments: "Good wants to buy dark boils doll Li K'uangou to be discouraged"... "Doll not nuclear suddenly, under the microscope bacterium is not fearful, But your title is good wants to vomit, ha ha. wink "... This one is practically a haiku: "I make a sound Stockholm to see the excrement with own eyes with the urine 2 dolls Side still has the black, red, the decadent restroom sells." {11.20.07} |
Taggeschau  Eben diesen wurde jetzt eine eigene Kuschelserie gewidmet: Bei "I heart guts" - in etwa: "Ich liebe Eingeweide" - kann man Herz, Leber, Niere, Lunge zum Kuscheln kaufen, entweder einzeln oder im Set. Auch Sonderanfertigungen wie eine Raucherlunge oder ein Herz aus Gold sind gegen Aufpreis zu haben. Weniger prominente Organe kann man auf Buttons, T-Shirts, Einkaufs- und Sporttaschen erhalten. Alle Teile der Kollektion sind in Farbtönen gehalten, die jeden Pathologen begeistern werden. Wer vor dem Kauf genaueres wissen möchte, kann die Organe auf ihren jeweiligen Myspace-Seiten besuchen. Dort erzählen sie, was sie gerade tun und wozu sie gut sind.{11.10.2007} |
Extreme Craft  We've all been around hospitals. It's a wonder that anybody gets well in them, considering the "get well" gifts that people send patients. Honestly, what's a teddy bear or balloon bouquet going to do for somebody? Pink ribbons? Yellow rubber wristbands? Thankfully, the world of health care has I Heart Guts, a craft business catering to people who love organs. These cuddly organs are the creation of illustrator Wendy Bryan. Bryan isn't content to rest on her laurels, though. She donates considerable amounts of her time to worthy charities and hospitals who want to go beyond the fuzzy bunny for their fundraisers and public awareness campaign. Do you have a worthy charity? Bryan will design buttons or other material for you, GRATIS. There's nothing like good design to help a patient pull through. {11.05.2007} |
Street Anatomy blog |
Gnome Sweet Gnome  Nice lady in Provo, Utah gives the guts a shout-out. "I love these shirts! I want one for every member of my family- check them out- funny & witty! My favorite is the URINE one." {October 1, 2007} |
I Heart Badges!  Straight outta Spain is the wonderful new book I Heart Badges, which the guts are so happy and proud to be included in! The book chronicles the joys of buttons and lapel pins from all over the world. Published by Monsa. {August 2007} |
 Post Punk KitchenWhat a delightful suprise to see an old design my pal Noel and I worked on for Yum Pop on one of the fine ladies in the first episode of the amazing and wonderful Post Punk Kitchen cooking show, home of the vegan riotgirrrl cupcake. They wore the tee to demontrate their tasty-looking tempeh roll. Yummmm. Don't miss their other episodes. {July 2007} |
Playgirl  Uterus is especially proud of her first full-frontal feature in a major magazine -- Playgirl put an I Heart Guts uterus tee alongside a glow-in-the-dark vibrator and TongueJoy Turbo. When asked to pose with one of the Playgirl models, uterus blushed a bit, then she went for it. {June 2007} |
Los Angeles Times  Okay, I know this doesn't even count, but the Guts appeared in the Los Angeles Times when I appeared in a story about taking bags to the grocery store. Miraculously, I won the Trader Joe's bag contest! Anyway, they wanted to take a photo, so I was a media whore and wore the "When Urine Love" tee. Here's what they wrote: "Wendy Bryan, a West L.A. graphic designer, promises that reusing bags can pay off. She recently won her local Trader Joe's bring-your-own-bag raffle — and hers wasn't even a Hermes. 'Just an old "I Love New York" bag with this really dumb underwater scene on one side,' she said." {05.07.07} |
Ready Made  My family and my husband's family banded together to buy me an ad in Ready Made magazine as a Christmas present. It was as if someone turned back the clock and took care of something I should have done months ago. It was so sweet, it made me cry. So look out for our ad! {12.2006} |
 Pictoplasma Character EncyclopaediaI Heart Guts is honored and excited to be part of this latest installment of Pictoplasma. Details: "Since the beginning the Pictoplasma project has closely accompanied the character movement with publications, exhibitions, festivals and conferences. With the long awaited follow-up publication, The Character Encyclopaedia, Pictoplasma delivers an in-depth exploration of the latest tendencies in current character design and art, spanning from drawing, design and painting to its use in installations and sculpture." {11.2006} |
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Foam magazine  I Heart Guts was featured in Foam magazine's Fall 2006 gift guide. Hooray! This is the third time the "Don't Lose Your Lunch" tee has been featured -- I have no idea why it has such editorial appeal. Thanks to reporter Jessica Ridenour for showing us some love. {Fall 2006} |
BlackBook magazine  "The image on the left was emblazoned on a T-shirt we received this month. The delightfully-packaged Italian aperitivo on the right, which the UPS guy delivered the same day, wasn't swathed in said T-shirt, but if it had been, it would have been a moment of mailroom celestial alignment worthy of a hearty toast." {07.01.2006} |
Entertainment Weekly magazine  "Who hasn't dreamed of owning a shirt with a bright, animated uterus on the front? Guts creator Wendy Bryan makes that fantasy come true with buttons, bags, and clothing illustrated with cute bodily organs spouting catchy slogans like "I'm a liver not a fighter." {06.16.2006} |
MTV2  Reporter and all-around great guy Evan Narcisse wore his "I'm a Liver Not a Fighter" tee as a talking head on MTV2's Kickass Combat special segment on military video games. The irony was not lost on anyone. {5.19.2006} |
The Big Mo |
CIncinnati Weekly  Designer Wendy Bryan, who's based out of Los Angeles, has created a line of cute, colorful shirts, buttons and bags called I Heart Guts! Her graphic T-shirts feature little smiley-faced organs, suxh as lungs, livers and hearts (the guts) with catchy phrases including "I'm a Liver Not a Fighter." ... Bryan got her design experience by working for the company that produced Emily the Strange. "I've just always been fascinated with biology," Bryan says. "And these guys just make me happy." {06.27. 2006} |
Over My Med Body! |
Cool Hunting  "The latest from the Los-Angeles-based label I Heart Guts (covered over in Spear-land earlier this month) is 'Don't Lose Your Lunch' (baby style pictured). Like the rest of the I Heart Guts line (the brainchild of a designer/teacher with a penchant for Japanese pop art), this tee anthropomorphizes organs and pairs them with puns in both English and Japanese. The upshot is a collection of bizarre, giggle-inducing designs. Available in gray for adults, the stomach themed shirts (as well as all I Heart Guts tees) are printed exclusively on American Apparel, and start at $18." {2.22.2006} |
Joshspear.com |
Drawn! The Illustration Blog |
Preshrunk  "A-freaking-dorable. That's the only way to describe Weeber World's "I Heart Guts!" line...The art is delightfully pop and very kid friendly -- which is fortunate seeing as how the shirts also come in sizes for the little ones as well as adults...Tell me I'm on crack if you'd like, but these designs really remind me of Paul Frank's early Julius and Friends line. Very clean, very simple and very cute. I've also gotta admit that I can't wait for the others to hit the site. Especially the kidney." (1.04.2006) |
Awesome!  "I have been cracking up all morning at this website called I Heart Guts. They have stuff you can buy (buttons, stickers, etc) but what is particularly making me laugh are all the corny puns such as 'I'm a Liver, Not a Fighter' and the stomach featuring the line 'I Ache for You.' It's official, I am 12 years old." (2.07.2006) |
Varshava Not-so-great translation: " I loes each fail to imagine without they majorities of internal organs life sobi?. So, time blesses on towards their trybut! It is possible to learn color friends on this part 8 dokladniej, buy stamps, t-shirts and other devices. Adorable crew. " |
Caymag  "Su I Heart Guts è possibile comprare magliette, adesivi e borse con disegni un po’ particolari. Si tratta di una serie di illustrazioni di organi umani: cuore, intestino, rene, fegato, polmoni e cosi via, tutti belli sorridenti, quasi a ricordarci che siam tutti belli e sani. I prezzi variano a seconda del prodotto, le magliette a 21$ circa, le borse a 30$." {2.02.2006} |
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A blog about anatomy? Sign us up! Here's what the anatomy people said: "Big thanks to Megan for turning me to iheartguts.com, a fantastic t-shirt company selling shirts and other accessories with cute little organs on them. It’s the brainchild of Wendy Bryan, an illustrator, designer, writer, reporter, and more." {August 30, 2007} 
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