Rick Lynn, Founder and Artist

Rick is the owner and premier artist at The Bobblehead, LLC. One of the benefits to one of our bobbleheads is it's attachment to Rick, being know as a "Rick Lynn Bobblehead." By pairing the artist with the art itself, your bobblehead becomes a collector's piece and its value is and will continue to be much higher than other bobbleheads you'll find today. Instead of some nameless factory cranking out stock bobbleheads, you help create something you can call your own that was skillfully designed with the help of a named creator.

Here are a few words from Rick and his history with the casting business:

"Over the years, my brother David Lynn and I worked as freelance artists and have been involved in a number of projects that required teams working together to bring a concept into reality. Not so long ago the task at hand could involve twenty to thirty people working over a period of two or three years to bring the idea to market.

In the past, assignments or sub contracts could be for any phase of the overall process. In the case Of Hallmark Card’s “Keepsake” division we were on contract as “inventors” and served as problem solvers with new products. The National Wildlife Federation looked to us for casting the yearly trophies for all of the participating states. At the Smithsonian we manufactured a miniature of the Elephant found in the rotunda of the Natural History Museum. Even designed and manufactured “Ghosts and Slimers” under license from the movie Ghost Busters.

Norman Deaton of Deaton Museum Studios www.ndeaton.com taught us the Museum business and we assisted in dioramas, reproductions, botanical specimens, murals and all around fabrication for museums worldwide. At the Smithsonian he created the Big Elephant in the Rotunda of the Natural History Museum. We assisted in the manufacture a miniature of the Elephant.

It has been a great honor to work alongside of some of the most prolific artists of our time."

On The Bobblehead LLC:

"The fundamental change between what I did in the past and what we do today with The Bobblehead, is that we are engage the client directly with the artwork. Traditionally, art is presented through a gallery or a creative department directed at a particular cliental or market. The gallery must have enough pieces to justify a marketing program and pay for overhead. The creative department is designing a product or series of products that will satisfy a marketing strategy.

Now however, the client becomes the creative department and the artist assumes the role of translator and brings the concept to reality.

Bobbleheads are the most fun I have ever had with the art world. What once would have cost several hundred thousand dollars and two or three years in the making can now be done for less than a fraction of that investment in less than two months. The best part is the client gets to participate in every phase of the creative process.
Unbeliveable! Sometimes I have to sit down and just take a minute and wonder in amazement at the fundamental change in the art world.

Rather than trying to interpret the artist’s vision the artist is creating the client’s Idea without regard to number or pieces. The linear-integration (Time and number of steps from concept to end user) is almost non-existent!

Each project is an original one of a kind sculpture that has been commissioned by the client.

In our time period Bobbleheads are perceived as inexpensive novelty collectable items that achieved popularity as give aways for sports events. Due, in part, to the sheer number The Bobblehead, LLC has undergone a metamorphosis and evolved into a collectable art form of contemporary effigies that reflect individual personalities in their respective time. The attraction is global and has been growing each year."