Sunday, January 30, 2011

Kyle Bean: Mobile Phone Evolution


Awesome papercraft of the british artist Kyle Bean with this paper mobiles collection of a kind of russian dolls. Clicking the title you will find more pictures and a video (not possible to embed here).
Thanks to Neatorama.

A picture collection of paper art ...

for iPhone or iPad !! See the trailer for this "PAPER ART trends" application:

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Paper Toy Monsters book and Giveaway!


I'm really excited to announce that the seriously awesome Papertoy Monsters book from Workman is here. My good friend Castleforte has put together an amazing collection of paper beasties designed by 25 of the best papertoy designers around, and me too. All the toys in the book are precut all you gotta do is add the clue. Grab your copy here! And check out more Monster mayhem at the papertoy monster blog.
Workman has given me a couple copies of this amazing book to give away! So if you want to win one, comment on this post of what your name would be if you were a monster, be creative. The winner will be pulled at random from qualifying comments. The contest closes at Midnight central time tonight 1/25/09. Good Luck!

Friday, January 21, 2011

Free Toy Friday: Monster Maker by LouLou

Talented papertoy creator and illustrator Loulou designed this cool Monster Maker that lets you design your own monster papertoy online and then print it out and build it. It's in Dutch but it's pretty easy to figure out.

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Take a look in the studio of Walter Ruffler (DE)


You can see a 5,5 min. long TV broadcast on Center TV Bremen, where Walter Ruffler shows some paper automata. Here's the path: click the title, search Weserzeit from 17.Januar, click "anschauen" and then track forward to 23.25 and the broadcast starts.

Friday, January 14, 2011

Free Toy Friday: Owl by 3EyedBear

First new toy of the year from 3EyedBear is this delightful little owl. You can download 6 different designs from the 3EyedBear site here.

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Lovely poster



...of a current pop-up-exhibition in Asturias, Spain, click the title with more infos
and a catalogue (via Hector Ugalde's mexican blog "Libros Pop-Up Books Cards")

Juniper Tangpuz: Paper sculptures

J.Tangpuz created movable paper sculptures, whitch he directs like a puppeteer in a kind of paper theatre. As a sample his "Fortune Teller"


And here a sample of his "Extremely Rare Paper Creatures" the Climbing Wizard Beast
(some more you can see at his Youtubechannel):

Thursday, January 06, 2011

Free Toy Friday: Paper Pop

For 2011 I've decided to go back to offering a free papertoy every month on my website. I did this several years ago and really missed doing it.
First up Paper Pop a tribute to Andy Warhol I designed for a holiday party favor and my day job.
Download him my site and check back every month this year for a new toy!

Tuesday, January 04, 2011

Yeti Calendar papercraft

Kick off the new year with this awesome yeti papercraft calendar from the Curiosity Group and then check back every month for a new calendar all year long!

Monday, January 03, 2011

Ben Hopson's Workshop in Umea (SE)


Ben Hopson is the founder of the discipline "Kinetic Design", what he teaches at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. He made a guest workshop in Sweden at Umea Institute for Design and he documented it with a lot of short videos (click the title).
See a sample kinetic object of a participant:



Much to see and to learn making a trip through the website of Ben Hopson !