
Hi Folks, Matt Hawkins here in my first post on Paper Forest. I've been a big fan of this blog for a long time and I'm real excited about contributing. I love the idea of paper toys online. It's like a matter transporter. An artist creates a 3D object, flattens it, sends it through cyberspace, it crosses the globe as ones and zeros and then it is built back into a 3D object!
Shin Tanaka makes some of the coolest graffiti/urban paper toys and art around. His spiky babies are a free download. 
He does a lot of great collaboration with other artists. Click on the "OTHERS" tab on his site to get blank toy templates you can download and customize yourself!
Get your graffiti on!
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Shin Tanaka my first post
Monday, February 26, 2007
Minny Cinny

Hello, Fine Forest Dwellers, Shelley Noble here, to share a tempting paper find. Jaime and I seem to both be fascinated by paper movie machines, a.k.a. miniature cinemas. She posted a hella great example a few months back.
A week ago I came across another exciting model, this one standing just 2-1/2" high. It's made from a pattern with instructions and a mini flip animation on cardstock by famed cartoonist, Chris Ware. It can be found on the back two pages of his "Acme Novelty Library Volume #3" and can be purchased for $3.95, plus modest shipping. (I ordered mine on Friday at 5 pm and got it in the mail today from the fine folks at Fantagraphics!)
UPDATE: The results of my first (thrilling) assembly and testing of this model can be read on my blog.
Saturday, February 24, 2007
Business Card Holder
Saturday, February 17, 2007
News and the Wonderful Jen Stark
Friday, February 16, 2007
Paper Castle
Saturday, February 10, 2007
From Russia With Love


Dear Jaime, Have I got you covered! Because you put your faith in me to be one of the contributing bloggers to the Paper Forest, I really wanted to bring some remarkable works that perhaps neither of us had seen before, and moreover had that certain "top drawer" PF sensibility. Tell me if I've done it.
Talented Russian designer and artist, Tatyana Stolyarova (aka; Tekuila) posted her new remarkable lotus flower paper pop-up (shown above, with a variation) to both her site and this Russian Live Journal Origamic Architecture page. She provides a pdf for download with diagrams for its construction there at the bottom of the description!
This flower is a rather nice variation on Robert Sabuda's lotus and even more feasible to construct than previous OA blooms that required a difficult thread matrix in the mechanism in order to open up. I am rabid about this flower, it may be my all time favorite pop-up to make for myself.
Also on her Live Journal page, new to me, perhaps new to you too, was a paper artist that is off the charts exciting. Dutch paper artist, Annelies Smit van Hüüksloot has been captivated by something in paper I'd not heard of, Caleidocycli, or Kaleidocycles "art that moves". She has taken Fellow Dutch artist, MC Escher's works and translated them onto this new 3D form of rotating rings of tetrahedra and the results are nothing less than spectacular! From there, click on "Escher" in her left side nav bar and don't miss seeing the steaming videos to see how they all move.
Your alter ego, Shelley Noble
PS: A friend living in Japan is hand-delivering the Harac paper cutter to my hot hands next week. A full report coming on that little treasure believe you me!
UPDATE: Erin Dillon wrote to tell us that there is a wonderful book with, as she describes, "...all of the M. C. Escher kaleidocycles models pictured in Annelies Smit van Hüüksloot's blog in full color on thick card stock with instructions." It's from the 70's, but seems to be available if one keeps their peeps open. Amazon has it, as do many smaller local shops, like Half Price Books
Thanks, Erin!









