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 [...]
I always wanted to do a papertoy sneaker. The bad thing is that a few papertoy designers did this before me. Shin Tanaka – Onitsuka Tiger (Mexico 66) / Nike Air Force 1 / Nike AF-1 / read more on this blog PHIL – AIR CUBE FORCE 1 / AIR YEEZY TRIBUTE DMC – Vans [...]
A while back Nick Knite asked me to create a custom for his MechaBunny. I’ve created NOISSGrunny: But the Mecha6 are made by a all-star papertoy team: Scott Schaller, Shin Tanaka, Tougui, Castleforte, Marshall Alexander and ME. The Mecha6 have arrived!! Here the Nick Knite – MechaBunny slideshow on Flickr (including my custom):
When I started to write about this Griant Robot there was not a site for it; now there is: Gaint Robot Shin. This website is for a contest: “Customize the template with your own designs”. But before you start designing: you need to read the rules (.pdf)…. But to make a long story short: basically [...]
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 have written a post about Jerom Update #2: Read about Macula I have written about the paperToys book from Matt Hawkins before: it’s a book about the most talented paperToy designers in the world! (and I’m part of that group ) Because the list is so impressive I should write about these [...]
At the beginning of this year Shin Tanaka came with a secret project: the SPIKY BABY Deluxe series. This project had two tags “Real Arts for Everyone” and “Change the Game”…. So this project must be something Today SPIKY BABY DELUXE SERIES is revealed: As other SPIKY BABY series you can download all models at [...]
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 [...]
