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 [...]
I have mentioned before that a friend of mine made a Grumm. But for some reason I never made a download link… So this is a post about that: and some reminder for this Grumm. Symen Veenstra aka Enkeling is a very talented illustrator and a good friend. We both went to the same art [...]
This is a strange entry in the Urban papercraft series: jins studio22cool pet rangeland paper model and toy design I normally would write about this project: you can adopt a papermodel for the right amount of cash. Especially the fact that you have to pay for a papermodel is something that I don’t like, but [...]
Update #1: I’m sorry: it seems that the deluxe series is no longer available. Ric pointed out to me that there is an update on the SPIKY BABY DELUXE SERIES from Shin Tanaka: This is a special one, you don’t want to mis this series: the master himself is giving some new models away in [...]
Update #1: I still haven’t got the time to build it myself, but you can download GrummBunny it now on the Grumm homepage. I haven’t got time to build it myself , or create a downloadable template, but I had to share this with you. The first custom Grumm in 2008 and more will follow! [...]
Update #1: I’m now part of the Hedkase family Why have I never written about Nice Bunny? Probably because of the controversy around his first designs. The first time I saw a design of Nice Bunny was the “Nice Bunny Paper Toys” (Tagger, DJ, Samurai, etc.) I wanted to write about him immediately, but I [...]
Matt Hawkins started a book about papertoys which will be publish early 2009 (read more about this in a previous post). I contributed Son of a Grumm, which is an exclusive custom Grumm design, to this book. This is: Son of a Grumm If you curious about the first half of the papertoys for the [...]
Update #1: I got the complete list of paper toy designers from Matt Hawkins Paper Toy Book preview, originally uploaded by Custom Paper Toys. Last year I was invited to joint a group of 24 of the most talented paper toy designers in the world. Matt Hawkins (you know him from his site Custom Paper [...]
I read in an article about Shin Tanaka that he started creating paper models and templates for all his favorite sneakers he couldn’t afford when he was a student… We seem to like the same sneakers! Nike One of my favorite Nike is create in paper by Shin: the Nike Air Force 1 is created [...]
Last week I talked about the collaboration between Shin Tanaka and Nooka: nooka boxboy. Which was a good reason to visit Shin Tanaka site, and there it was: another cool papercraft project called BOXY (traveling over the world). Shin wants custom designs for BOXY, but instead creating a downloadable link on his site (like Spiky [...]
