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Urban papercraft: Shin Tanaka (part 3) – Boxy

Last week I talked about the collaboration between Shin Tanaka and Nooka: nooka boxboy.
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).
BOXY -traveling over the world

Shin wants custom designs for BOXY, but instead creating a downloadable link on his site (like Spiky Baby or Mask Hoody), the designer has to take a picture of his design and send it to Shin. He will put it on his site, and you will get your 15 minutes of fame….

Want to? Go to the page that explains what you need to do!

You should visit the BOXY page, because there a regular updates, but you can view a couple entries here:

BOXY by Shin TanakaStart slideshow here

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BOXY_travel/Boxy_photo_%5BPHIL%5D.jpg

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Urban papercraft: Shin Tanaka (part 2) and Nooka

Shin Tanaka, one of my favorite urban papercraft artists, teamed up with Nooka.
Before this post I had never heard about Nooka, but they make very nice watches (which are difficult to find in the Netherlands).

Nice to know, but what has that to do with papercraft?
Nothing and everything, in a collaboration between the two, they created a papercraft project with the name “nooka boxboy“.
Check out NOOKA Collab | SHIN TANAKA.

Or some of the pictures:




And you can also submit your own designs, although I’ve been checking this site regularly but haven’t seen any updates in the Gallery.
But submitting won’t hurt, or you can make a custom just for yourself: save the nooka boxboy blank template and start designing.

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Shin Tanaka – Spiky baby [series 8] is out

SPIKE BABY series from Shin Tanaka is starting with SPIKE BABY[SERIES 08].

So you know what to do, check it out

Shin Tanaka papertoy series are only active for a short time and you missed it 🙁

And here are the individual locations for the download:
ADRIAN_GANDER
Aliceandthecat
EL_GATO_CHIMNEY
FINGERPRINTS
FRUITY_LOU
IZUMI_FUJIWARA
Jeff_Martin
Satoshi_Okano
SLUGLIFE
BOX_
S
P
I
K
Y
B1
A
B2
Y

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Shin Tanaka: Mask Hoody [series 03]

You probably noticed it, if you’re a fan of Shin Tanaka: he updated the Mask Hoody series.
You can start to download (and build) Mask Hoody [series 03]

You can download them, and the nice guy I am: this is what you get in Series 03:

Shin Tanaka papertoy series are only active for a short time and you missed it 🙁







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Urban papercraft

Shin Tanaka – Spiky baby [series 7] is out

SPIKE BABY series from Shin Tanaka is starting with SPIKE BABY[SERIES 07].

So you know what to do, eck it out


Shin Tanaka papertoy series are only active for a short time and you missed it 🙁

And start downloading: the download pages for you on a platter:
(if haven’t got much time, so no names with the links… but workable)
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Urban papercraft

Shin Tanaka – Spiky baby [series 6] is out

SPIKE BABY series from Shin Tanaka is starting with SPIKE BABY[SERIES 06].

So you know what to do, t it out


Shin Tanaka papertoy series are only active for a short time and you missed it 🙁

And start downloading: the download pages for you on a platter:
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p
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y
Bryan_Rollins
claupre
ELGIROGRAFICO
Gaurav
GGG
HELENA
Hixtri
LUNA
MSB_BLUE
MSB_GREEN
MSB_PINK
ocularinvasion
SB06_BOX_

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Urban papercraft

Shin Tanaka – Spiky baby [series 5] is out

You need to be quick… the SPIKE BABY series from Shin Tanaka is starting with SPIKE BABY[SERIES 05] and before you know it, it’s gone and series 06 is there.

Dark horse

This time with :ad:86 , addfueltothefire , Angello , ANO , DARK HORSE , LACKO , PHONETICONTROL , PLAY HARD , Triclops

View all









Shin Tanaka papertoy series are only active for a short time and you missed it 🙁

And the total download list is here:
box
AD86
addfueltothefuture
Angello
ANO
Dark horse
LACKO
PC
PLAY HARD
TRICLOPS
S
P
I
K
Y
S 2
P 2
I 2
K 2
Y 2
box

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Shin Tanaka – Mask Hoody [series 01]

Shin Tanaka has created for us to download and build: Mask Hoody [series 01]

Mask Hoody

there is a blank Mask Hoody for the designers, who want to participate in the next series.


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camo2
camo3
camo
face
fake
rainbow
rough
ska
sporty
stab
blank

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Shin Tanaka – Spiky baby [series 4] is out

Shin Tanaka | Spiky Baby Series 4 is out now.

MacMeier design

With designs from:
(and now you will see how impatience I am: I don’t want to wait and see all different Spiky Baby randomly, so I “hacked” the swf and got the url )

Update #1: all these downloads are limited time only :: that time has passed… the links don’t work anymore….

accent.tv | view Spiky baby
Arte Vettoriale | view Spiky baby
COM RAID | goto 1 | goto 2 | goto 3
Epic | view Spiky baby
Macmeier | view Spiky baby
Nagua design | goto 1 | goto 2
ONESIDEZERO | goto 1 | goto 2
REACH | view Spiky baby
TIMROBOT |view Spiky baby

And the stuff that Shin Tanaka adds:
goto Spiky Baby “S”
goto Spiky Baby “P”
goto Spiky Baby “I”
goto Spiky Baby “K”
goto Spiky Baby “Y”
goto Spiky Baby box

Happy cutting!

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Urban papercraft

Urban papercraft: Shin Tanaka

Shin Tanaka updated his site so check http://shin.co.nr/ out.
And he added T-BOY HOODY to the list of paper toys you can customize or design! Just drop Shin one of the following email in his mailbox: “T-BOY HOODY” , “GRITTY” , and “SPIKY BABY”.

I decided to share a “hobby” of mine (read more about my “hobbies”).

But I will only share the cool part of it: I’m talking about urban papercraft.
The cool customizable paper toys who are similar to that of the vinyl scene.

Shin Tanaka is my favorite (well …. I can’t find a lot of builders who approach papercraft with a urban style). I like the simple shapes he uses to create the figures and that they fit on one pace of paper. But what makes him a genius is the fact that he makes DIY paper toys. And it works…. I want to design one too. So this will be added to my wish list. I especially like the GRITTY.

An example: darkimey X GRITTY
GRITTY darkimey
One of the master himself: QRCOD GRITTY
GRITTY QRCODE

So if you have some spare time try one of these: the custom designed paper model collection especially made as a canvas for graffiti writers and designers who want to present their work for public! Or design a SPIKY BABY or GRITTY

Basic Spike from the SPIKY BABY [SERIES 3] – box
SPIKE basic

SPIKE bichorabioso << An example from bicho

The only “comment” I have about Shin that his portfolio-site doesn’t let us see everything he made in the past: he also made some papercraft based on figures from Michael Lau (Michael Lau creates bad ass figures!!): Davy (red), Davy in different colors, SF.M.L.F, and a “Special Paper Model Download Page” in English.

Update #1: An article about Shin Tanaka can be found Pingmag – The Tokoyo-based magazine