A wonderful kind of paper theatre

Bad Things That Could Happen from This Is It on Vimeo.

Made by This-Is-It-Collective, a London based group of illustrators and animators (click the title).
Thanks Peter Glaser with his blog "Glaserei"

Free Toy Friday:Zooguu and Goobeetsa

Free Toy Friday just in time for Halloween from from husband and wife team Zooguu and Goobeetsa! This great little paper squid is available at Zooguu.com and the masks below are available at goobeetsa.com.
Boo!

Guerilla Popuping in a train

In analogy to the well known guerilla gardeners London based Dominic Wilcox has made a train intervention. Its from his last september project "speed creating", everyday an artwork, the second from 30. See the video:

Kyle Bean (GB) : Police Dog Hogan

The british cardboard sculptor Kyle Bean has made this commercial project for the british rockband Police Dog Hogan as the mascot and used it for cover photos of the new album. See also the very interesting portfolio of the artist:
http://www.kylebean.co.uk/portfolio/
Thanks gBlog, click the title.

Free Toy Friday

I'm reinstating Free Toy Friday, every week I'll post a free papertoy for you to download and build.
First up Blocks by papertoy master Marshall Alexander. You can grab it from Marshall's site as well as lots of other amazing free toys. Enjoy!

Wireframe Me

Artist Eric Testroete created an extremely well designed wireframe self-portrait for his über-clever Halloween costume last year.

Be sure to read his full step-by-step of the meticulous process it took to make such an imaginative paper sculpture real!

Much kudos to Eric!

Free Pop-Up Pumpkin at RobIves.com

A fun little project for Halloween! Courtesy of Rob Ives at RobIves.com

The (purely paper) Flower Shoppe

THE (purely paper) FLOWER SHOPPE from David Stark Design & Production on Vimeo.

Okay, so I somehow missed this (Thanks Megan for the link!) But back in May, this amazing paper flower shop came to life. The video and pictures above will hopefully inspire something creative for all of you. I just love the concept and execution here.

"Cardboard Design Now" Book Deal for Paper Forest Readers!

Paper Forest readers can get this new book from Black Dog Publishing at 40% off!

Following on from the success from Paper: Tear, Fold, Rip, Crease, Cut, Outside the Box: Cardboard Design Now takes a detailed look into this versatile material, and how it is used in a creative, artistic and practical way in contemporary art and design.

Once overlooked as a material with predominantly staid practical uses, cardboard design is now perceived as a medium of infinite possibilities. From packaging, product and furniture design, to large-scale interior and exterior architecture and art, Outside the Box reveals just how far it is possible to push the uses and potential of this once overlooked material.

Outside the Box charts the material’s evolution through to modern practices, profiling some of today’s most inspirational and provocative artists and designers working across the fields of art, design and architecture. Among those featured are Frank Gehry with his iconic range of corrugated cardboard furniture for Vitra; Shigeru Ban, whose cardboard disaster relief housing and deconstructable cardboard schools have put him at the forefront of eco-design; and artist Thomas Demand whose cardboard models have gained him international acclaim.

If you'd like to get your copy with the discount, just e-mail jess@blackdogonline.com with "Paper Forest Offer" as the title, and include your address.

Origami Fireworks!

I used to make a simpler version of this lovely piece that would turn inside out for a kaleidoscope effect, but I love how elaborate this one is.

19 short videos about some exhibits

You can see 19 short videos about the movement from the exhibits, but only one popup
in every book. Click the title and you will find the FLICKR site of the Smithsonian Library with the videos.
Thanks to the exhibition blog:
http://smithsonianlibraries.si.edu/foldpullpopturn/2010/10/featuring-tony-sargs-surprise-book-look-listen-smell-taste-and-feel.html

Blog "scissors + paper rock !"

Kylie, based in Brisbane (AU), makes this blog dedicated to artistic papercraft on high level (click the title). The last entry is related to Molly Bosley (Brooklyn,NY), who has made a series of boxes filled with papercutted scenes,it's a part of her work named "Remember Sebastian".

Giant popup - a belgian commercial

Popups and papercraft becomes more and more important for advertising. As example this belgian commercial for PEARLE Opticiens (the campaign made by the creative team
'tom & hanne", Brussels, with the help from paper engineer Kees Moerbeek (NL). I mentioned him recently with his rare paper ratchet mechanism in my blog http://kugelbahn.blog.de/ . Here is the first video:



Very interesting too - the making of (the gentleman with the grey hairs is Kees):



By clicking the title you get all 4 videos.

(Thanks to Uli Tietz !)

Eric Power's amazing paper stopmotion musicvideos

Austin TX based papercut and stopmotion artist has finished his last videoclip for "Tatooine" from Jeremy Messersmith. His tasteful combination of colours, shapes and motion makes it to an artwork (see much more on his website by clicking the title )
Thanks to http://feingut.com

Meggendorfer Prize 2010

News from today: this eminently respectable biennial prize for movable books goes to

Marion Bataille for "ABC3D" (2008)
(Movable Book Society)

(Thanks to Boutique du livre anime, Blog, click the title!))

50 Papertoy Monsters

Coming soon from Workman and Brian Castleforte, Papertoy Monsters! 50 monsters created by 25 of the top papertoy designers, how can you go wrong? Precut and ready to fold, glue and boo!

Robot Wars

I'm super excited to introduce, Robot Wars! It's a Barnes and Nobel exclusive paper robot kit I did with Becker & Mayer books. You build the pre-cut paper bots and put them on the wind-up mechanism a let them battle it out!
Paper Robots by me, Design by Katie Stahnke and words by Erika Kern.
Available at Barnes and Nobel stores or on-line while it's on sale for 46% off!