Diamond Select Toys Acquires Art Asylum
Diamond Select Toys and Art Asylum have had a long standing relationship. It was the perfect fit, Diamond had the distribution and marketing resources, Art Asylum had digger and his team of very talented artists.
Effective immediately, Diamond Select toys announced on May 16, 2007 that is acquired select assets of Art Asylum. The result? Now DST has their own, high quality design house to work underneath their growing umbrella of products and services.
Art Asylum was founded in 1996 by Digger T. Mesch and Donna Soldano as a development and design house, and quickly became home to some of the most talented designers in the toy industry. They sculpted much of the figures that Diamond sold under the DST moniker including the most popular mini block figure on the market today, the minimate!
“Art Asylum made its mark on the toy industry with its unique style and top of the line development,” said Director of DST Chuck Terceira. “We are excited to have access to all the tools that built the company and utilize them to help grow our business even further. The acquisition takes DST’s level product development and production departments to new levels, and we are excited on all fronts.”