Spikey Baby Deluxe Series

Shin Tanaka has released his new Spikey Baby Deluxe Series.
He's got a Stellar line up of collaborating artist in this series.
Lots of cool ones to nab all in Virtual "blind boxes". So click away to find your fave. Their are some cool variants buried in there too if ya keep looking.

Nice Paper Toys

Another bit of niceness from NiceBunny, introducing an online community/social network for papertoy artist and fans called Nice Paper Toys. Join up and post pics, share news and discuss all things papertoys. Already quite a few of the artist I featured on this blog have signed up. So if your into papertoys go check it out and make a little nice place for yourself. I think this is a great idea and I would love to see it really take off. This could turn into the ultimate resource for papertoys on the net. Nice!

Paper Calendar

For those of you who still haven't made your resolutions (like me) because you haven't realized that January is already almost over because you thought New Year's was just last week, here's some cute little desk calendars you can download and make right now to remind you. Where does the time go? Here's the link.

(thanks Jazzman for the heads up!)

Paper Birds

I'm a sucker for birds. And things made of paper. So these are worth a post from me. I want a collection of little paper birds to keep me company in the studio. Choose four designs to download, or create your own here.

We Want Paper Call for Submissions

A few years ago when Paper Forest was started, I would have to go to foreign sites to find most of the opportunities and models on my list. It seems that the popularity of paper art and toys is really taking off in the United States over the past year or so, because there are too many opportunities to keep track of these days. Here is an opportunity for budding designers to create their own art from the template above for a chance at some good exposure. Check it out here. ( Thanks Shiho! )

Moneygami

I used to be pretty obsessed with money folding, but there wasn't too much out there once you made the few popular available models. This set of pictures is quite fun and inspiring. I love how they use the graphics on the bill as integral parts to some of these designs. See more by following this link.

Cubotoy contest

I think the pic says it all. Name this Cubotoy buddy and win him! Just send Angello an email with your name, your country, address and the name you want to enter to cubotoy@gmail.com.
Good luck.

Burlabox

Here is an interesting papertoy project I've come across lately, Burlabox from Viareggio, Italia. It's a simple little globe trotting paper toy version of Burlamacco.
From Wikipedia
"Burlamacco is the clown-like figure which presides over the Carnival in the Tuscan town of Viareggio, and is the town's mascot."
And from the Colosseum to the Playboy Mansion this little guy gets around! Check his Flickr.

YeboMaycu Paper Shirts

YOUR YEBOMAYCU is a new project in collaboration with Boonika, whose aim is to create a gallery of paper-shirt toys from creative people from all over the world, so here is your chance to contribute to the global paper toy movement. Design your own with the blank template to participate or browse and put together those already created!

Samurai Paper Theater

Paul's closed theater on the upper left, composed of curves, upper right, the card nearly finished with the original moving card designed by K. Takayama in red seen on table behind. Below left, the finished card open revealing the warrior inside. On the bottom right, the little theater seems illuminated like a real stage.

Forgive me a personal pleasure Paper Peeps, but today I must feature my husband Paul's newest creation. Truth be told, it's his brand spanking new Art Medium of Choice. He takes his collection of Japanese Samurai art and images, composes them, cuts them up and creates moving, dimensional pop-up paper diorama with them. This is an exciting development for him and an incredibly satisfying exercise in creative expression.

He loves all things Japanese, especially Samurai (likely having been one himself at some distant point), he loves all things paper, he loves all paper pop-up designs. Put them all together and well, you get... Goooooooood times.

This one sits enticingly partially open on a shelf in his office. Neither one of us can wait for his next one!