Saturday, April 24, 2010

...and the third Keith Newstead:

"Gladiators". K.N. put a lot of photos in his blog to see how to build it:
http://www.keithnewsteadautomata.com/blog

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

We Are Paper Toys!


Heads up on another book We Are Paper Toys by Louis Bou. You can preorder it from Amazon here. It's also available in Spanish check out some preview pages here.
From the publisher:

"An amazing collection of paper toy designs and design techniques from innovative contemporary artists and designers around the world, We Are Paper Toys includes sketches of the toys, and step-by-step instructions on how to create the toys and make them your own. Additionally, We Are Paper Toys is packaged with a DVD featuring the templates for the toys in the book. These templates can be printed on your choice of paper and folded and glued to make the paper toys from the book."

Another paper automaton from Keith Newstead: Contraband Cat

Two days ago Keith Newstead published this second paper automaton:

Thursday, April 15, 2010

Amazing Surfing Dog paper automaton

Keith Newsteads old paper cutout kit (1993)"Life's a Beach" is now as download from his website available: http://www.keithnewsteadautomata.com/blog
See also this new video:

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

In addition to "Between the Folds"

On December Shelley Noble mentioned this extraordinary film with the official 2min- trailer as appetizer. Now I found a 10min report, a TV documentary:



And here a 30min. Google-Talk with some artists from this film:

Monday, April 12, 2010

Peter Dahmen's Pop-Up Paper Sculptures

20 years ago as a student he built this very impressive work of popup sculptures.
Peter Dahmen is a german graphicdesigner (http://www.peterdahmen.de/index.html), who works now most twodimensionally. Nearly forgotten he rediscovered his old work and films them:


(Via papierstadt.de )

Friday, April 09, 2010

Paper Wonderland


Coming soon Paper Wonderland a book of 32 super cute papercrafts by Michelle Romo. Check out the book site here for more info. Looks like a heck of a lot of fun!

Monday, April 05, 2010

Jumping Easter Greetings

Dutchpapergirl from Youtube has made this jumping pop-ups based on Haruki Nakamura
as a greeting video for this easter days (thanks to Hector Ugalde):