Who we are

The team behind the characters

An independent design studio where every character is drawn by hand before it's ever made.

OTOTO founders Ori Saidi and Daniel Gassner, side by side in black T-shirts

Ori & Daniel

It's the creative spark that brought Ori Saidi and Daniel Gassner together when they met at the Ascola School of Art and Design. From there they founded OTOTO — an independent studio making functional household items with a playful twist, now shipped to over 30 countries and found in museums and design stores.

Meet the characters

An independent studio

Every character starts as a drawing

We do not license artwork or pick a mould from a catalogue. Every character is drawn here, by hand, by us — argued over, redrawn, given a name and a job, and only then made. These are the actual pages.

Red — studio drawing — **Red**crab studies

Blade — studio drawing — **Blade**on the desk it was drawn on

Splatypus — studio drawing — **Splatypus**finding the beak

Cthulhu — studio drawing — **Cthulhu**“symmetric for easier mould”

Speedy — studio drawing — **Speedy**six angles

Dunk N' Egg — studio drawing — **Dunk N' Egg**a basketball habit

Hot-dog Mitts — studio drawing — **Hot-dog Mitts**one dachshund

All 128 characters in the range began on a page like these — and the drawings, like the products, are ours.

Meet the characters