A while back I was asked to participate on a very special project: Shove-it. Note te self: I love that papertoys take me to different places! Papertoy artist {bay} {kid} {dead} asked me join a elite team of 30+ artists to design a skateboard deck and customize his papertoy Spyro. Besides that it is awesome [...]
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 [...]
February 16, 2011 – 09:00
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 [...]
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 [...]
By Matthijs Kamstra
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Posted in Design, Urban papercraft
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Also tagged Book, Brian Castleforte, designers, Paper Model, PaperToy, PapertoyMonster, PaperToys, toy designer, toy designers, Workman
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As I mentioned before: I always wanted to do a papertoy sneaker. When I finished my first PUMA sneakers, and posted it on NPT (Nice Paper Toy), some people mentioned that they liked the model but that there favorite PUMA sneaker is the states/suede/clyde. I didn’t know that the PUMA states/suede/clyde is a b-boy classic. [...]
December 23, 2009 – 16:14
I’m in the latest edition of the II LOVE magazine from Marko Zubak In this issue we will remain on the first phase of creation, the form. Here the accent is put on the sculptural aspect of denuded paper toys, giving an impression that each one of them represents it’s own species. Here is shown [...]
September 10, 2009 – 09:45
I wanted to make a custom for Dolly Oblong, but I guess Dolly didn’t want to wait anymore… At the Urban Paper Toys exhibition at Subwalk in Arnhem (The Netherlands) Dolly asked all designers present to do a custom… on the spot. Hand drawn Paper Totem! pieces by the artists participating in the Urban Paper [...]
I should have posted this a lot sooner, but here it is: the official invitation to the Urban Paper: book launch and papertoy art show at Subwalk. (in Dutch and English) Op zaterdag 1 AUGUSTUS opent SUBWALK ‘URBAN PAPER: book launch + paper toys art show’. Naast de Europese release van het boek URBAN PAPER [...]
One of my most popular post is about how to create papertoys (How to create your own papercraft). It seems that a lot of people are interested in papertoys and how to make themselves. But there is not a lot of information about it, so I started this series. Do you want to know more [...]
The latest issue of the German family magazine Luna features some great shots of papertoys by some great papertoy designers and me I need to make a photo/scan of the pages I’m in, but for now a image made by Marshall Alexander There are models and customs by Sal Azad, 3EyedBear, SaltnPaper, JustUs, Nick Knite, [...]
