Paper Matez: Just Glue It

Jay Edwards of Paper Matez is having a show of his urban inspired papertoys March 4th @ Division 9 Gallery South in Riverside CA. There is a nice interview with Jay and his work here.

Mary Beth Cryan @ Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa

If your in the Tulsa area check out this event at the Philbrook Museum with paper engineer and illustrator Mary Beth Cryan .

Date: Saturday, February 27, 2010
Times: 1:00pm to 3:00pm
Free with Museum Admission
Room: Patti Johnson Wilson Hall

Meet the Princess of Pop-Ups, Mary Beth Cryan, an award winning paper engineer, illustrator and toy designer. Cryan has designed pop-up books and greeting cards, many of which
are currently sold at the Museum of Modern Art and Target, among other places. Discover how she got her start and learn cool tricks of the trade from Cryan to make your own original
pop-up card with your family.

Thanks Mary for the heads up!

Daniel Mar , french paper artist

"Papa, maman, le monde et moi", 2009
Today I found him at http://www.crookedbrains.net/2010/02/paper.html , see the infos there.
And here is his website: http://www.artpapier.fr/Art_Papier/flash.html

Sipho Mabona (CH), origami artist

This young Lucerne based artist is now one of the leading origami artists in the world. His website: http://www.mabonaorigami.com/ See also his multiple-awarded origami animation short ad for japanese sport shoes ASICS:

Origami In the Pursuit of Perfection from MABONA ORIGAMI on Vimeo.

and this videoclip for the song "Dreaming of your love" from Tony Williams:

Tony Williams: DREAMING OF YOUR LOVE (KOFT video contest WINNER!!!) from MABONA ORIGAMI on Vimeo.

The Dream Ball -Packaging Fun with Cardboard

Unplug Design has engineered an interesting cardboard tube that can be made into a cardboard ball. The concept here was to design packaging for aid relief articles, so that children can recycle the packaging and have a ball to play with in the most impoverished places in the world, where any diversion is a welcome one. The idea is also to encourage some friendly interaction between aid workers and the children living in these countries.

Sure, the Dream Ball probably won't hold up for more than a game or two of soccer, but that is more than nothing, and it is an interesting solution for a cardboard tube that would have been otherwise ignored. The structure is also quite elegant and interesting.

Poketo Paper Series Wallets

Poketo wallets have showcased some great artists and illustrators of the past several years, but now they have some wallets that actually qualify for a Paper Forest Post.

The Poketo Paper Series wallets feature whimsical paper cut art work by Jayme McGowan, Joe Rogers, Thereza Rowe, and Jared Schorr.

Check them out at Poketo. Fun Stuff.

Paper animation "Papierkrieg"

The german shortfilm "Papierkrieg" by Matthias Bäuerle is a brilliant example for origami related paper animation. Thanks Glaserei( http://blog.stuttgarter-zeitung.de/)

Papierkrieg from Makaio Tisu on Vimeo.

Japanese paper automata at "Kuralica"

Nozomi Sakuma offers under his label "Kuralica" 10 cutouts for mechanical paper toys and automata. The sites with the spinning gears are under construction.
http://www.kuralica.net/birthday/index.html

Pinning My Hopes On You

Jaroslav Juřica, who graduated at the Swedish Lund University School of Industrial Design, has posted a very clever working paper pin-hole camera for free download on the Hubero Kororo site:

Rubikon is a cut-out, which becomes a functioning camera (camera obscura) after putting together. In 1979 the ABC magazine published a jigsaw called Dirkon, which paraphrased the at that time very popular single-lensed reflex cameras. Rubikon, as a redesign has come back to react to the digital techno.

The cut-out Rubikon was first published in 2005 in the 8. issue of the ABC magazine, 25 years after introducing Dirkon. Since that time it has been also published in foreign media dealing with photography. Rubikon is also used as a teaching aid at some schools of photography and elementary schools.

Technical description

The Rubikon – camera obscura is distributed free of charge in PDF format. Its further utilization and propagation is subjected to Creative Commons license - some rights reserved. Rubikon is also available for download on our website. Before putting it together, read the manual carefully, please! I will be very grateful for any feedback, comment and idea for improvement.

PDF - Rubikon 2 beta 2009 (560 kB)
PDF - Rubikon 1.2.2004 (406 kB)

Much paper pages becomes a book - much books becomes a building !

See the nice compilation at CROOKEDBRAINS:
Book installations.

http://www.crookedbrains.net/2010/02/books.html

Cheshire Cat Paper Toy

Cheshire Cat is a character of Tim Burton's new movie "Alice's Adventures in Wunderland"(March 2010). Here you can find a printable cutout kit for that expressive paper sculpture.
http://alice2010.blogspot.com/2010/02/exclusive-cheshire-cat-papercaft.html
(Via Boing Boing)

Michel Ocelot: "Les Trois Inventeurs"

Inspired by the Scherenschnitt-Chapter I remembered the Lotte Reiniger paper cut animations. We can find a lot of videos on Youtube. Today I found between the neighbourvideos a remarkable 1-min. sample of Ocelot's 'The 3 Inventors'(original length 13 minutes). What a 3 decades old treasure !!