Author Archives: Matthijs Kamstra

Tribute to Heavy Bramble: papertoy Brummble

Updates: I moved them to the bottom of this post, just click here to jump to the updates! This is my first of my monthly “big” – post (read more about the changes I will make this year). I had this lying around for some time (made it before Christmas), but didn’t take the time [...]

2011 vs 2012

Update #1: I joint a gym to learn how to KickBoxing and Muay Thai! Here is the link to the site: http://www.samuraisports.nl/ (little warning: this website is not a beauty) Update #2: Brummble the papertoy tribute to ThreeA vinyl: Heavy Bramble is online and ready for downloading: here. It’s been a while … haven’t posted [...]

Introduction of Squeezzrr a C-Myk papertoy

Finally I join the papertoy world again and enter a contest…. (popsetpaper.com, Happy Colours’ Attack) But for I can’t finish the papertoy in time (my live is changed a lot!) (participate) Damn I just couldn’t get more time in the design/build… I wanted to compete but there are more important things to do… I could [...]

Lightweight CMS For simple projects

I use WordPress for this blog, and happy with it. But it’s not for everybody: you need a database, it’s very impressive, plugins, themes, users, comments, regular update, kinda geeky install and the default installment is 7.9 mb. And I needed a CMS for a small website/portfolio; it needs something small, not impressive (visually), easy [...]

Papertoy Monster Day

Never heared of it… That because it self-proclaimed. And I’m one of the people who will do the self-proclaiming. I have written about it, showed you images/photos and now there is a special day for it! Papertoy Monsters: Make Your Very Own Amazing Papertoys! The papertoy book I have designed two monsters for published by [...]

FDT and ANT – part 2

Trying to build the ultimate build.xml in ANT: debug/production zip ftp version … etc: will save a lot of keystrokes in FDT4 source: http://twitter.com/MatthijsKamstra/statuses/25194997777 All the information about the ultimate build.xml can be found on the internet, so I will post the links and you can figure it out for yourself. I used the build.xml [...]

Papertoy monsters poster

Castleforte posted a promotional poster for the “50 papertoy monsters” book which will be released very soon. Castleforte: here is a sneak peak of all 50 monsters from my new, soon to be released book, “50 papertoy monsters”. thanks to workman publishing for this wonderful, promotional poster. enjoy! This is a freaking awesome book!!! what [...]

WIP Papertoy: MacTen

My latest papertoy Revolvrr is a great success (at the moment of writing this blog: 1731 downloads)! So what should I do with that knowledge? Nick Knite suggested that I should make a “Urban protection series”. I thought about it…. and I think he’s right! So here a little progress: based upon a MAC 10 [...]

Revolvrr papertoy

I have been busy… Not really with my papertoys But this one is just so you don’t forget me: Revolvrr is a papertoy that I made as a part of an other papertoy. Nick Knite and Dolly Oblong advised me to share it with you. So here it is: it’s only a blank version because [...]

Twitter updates on my blog will be removed

If you want to see what I’m doing (on Twitter) follow me. But I will not update my weekly tweets here anymore (and remove the once that are here). It looks kinda ugly, I thought it would be better then posting nothing for weeks in a row.. but it’s not