Very cool papercraft
Matt Hawkins started a book about papertoys which will be publish early 2009 (read more about this in a previous post).
I contributed Son of a Grumm, which is an exclusive custom Grumm design, to this book.
If you curious about the first half of the papertoys for the book (working title ‘Urban paper’), goto the Custom Paper Toys-account at Flickr.
if you want to more about Grumm visit it’s homepage and perhaps make a custom.
Last year I was invited to joint a group of 24 of the most talented paper toy designers in the world. Matt Hawkins (you know him from his site Custom Paper Toys or his contributions to Paperforest) started a book which will be publish early 2009.
On the image you see the first half of the papertoys:
Just visit flickr and see the notes on the picture, so you see who made what….
My toy is the one with the gun: I call it Son of a Grumm.
When I have my own pictures of it, I will post it here
I read in an article about Shin Tanaka that he started creating paper models and templates for all his favorite sneakers he couldn’t afford when he was a student…
We seem to like the same sneakers!
One of my favorite Nike is create in paper by Shin: the Nike Air Force 1 is created by Shin in paper and can be found on the internet:
NIKE AIR FORCE 1 paper model and LMAC BABESTAS
download the Nike Air Force One (.PDF) here.
And the Nike AF-1 can be found here:
http://www.govacant.com/shin.html
(or download the Nike AF-1 here (.PDF))
Shin has even had an exhibition with these sneakers:
Shin also worked together with Onitsuka Tiger and created a template for
Onitsuka Tiger – Mexico66.
You can create your own Mexico66: just download the blank version here: Onitsuka Tiger – Mexico66 (.PDF).
This project has it’s own Flash site: http://shin.onitsukatiger.co.uk/.
And you can send in your customs on the same site.
Last week I talked about the collaboration between Shin Tanaka and Nooka: nooka boxboy.
Which was a good reason to visit Shin Tanaka site, and there it was: another cool papercraft project called BOXY (traveling over the world).
Shin wants custom designs for BOXY, but instead creating a downloadable link on his site (like Spiky Baby or Mask Hoody), the designer has to take a picture of his design and send it to Shin. He will put it on his site, and you will get your 15 minutes of fame….
Want to? Go to the page that explains what you need to do!
You should visit the BOXY page, because there a regular updates, but you can view a couple entries here:
Shin Tanaka, one of my favorite urban papercraft artists, teamed up with Nooka.
Before this post I had never heard about Nooka, but they make very nice watches (which are difficult to find in the Netherlands).
Nice to know, but what has that to do with papercraft?
Nothing and everything, in a collaboration between the two, they created a papercraft project with the name “nooka boxboy“.
Check out NOOKA Collab | SHIN TANAKA.
Or some of the pictures:
And you can also submit your own designs, although I’ve been checking this site regularly but haven’t seen any updates in the Gallery.
But submitting won’t hurt, or you can make a custom just for yourself: save the nooka boxboy blank template and start designing.
Very funny, and only the dutch understand really why this name is funny: PlayRoll.
(and I’m not going to explain it, because they don’t do it either)
Humans live on earth like pigs in a borehouse. Valuable resources are depleted and transformed into nuclear waste, CO2 emissions, chemical pollution and mere trash. The ending of our planet will come to pass. Emerged from human filth, resistant to all pollution
The first time I read about PlayRoll project was via PaperForest and it sounded very interesting.
But when I visited the homepage there was only one download: the Crash Test Bunny
Nice, but not a reason to write about this project.
But today I saw in one of my Flickr feeds, that the PlayRoll characters can be customized!
Beside a kit that you can buy, there are blank templates of 4 characters!
So visit the download section of PlayRoll.
Template CO&O
Template T-Rash
Template Nuke
Template Toxi
[via the excellent Paper Forest and Flickr]
Another excellent papercraft model made by 3EyedBear.
A one piece papermodel of a bear with…. 3 eyes.
Maarten Jansen also created other papermodels, but I’m interested in
3EyedBear
And the reason why is the custom blank template:
(to get creative with…)
3EyedBear is ready to dominate the world but can use your help!
[via Paperforest]
An awesome combination: Flash and papercraft.
Papercritters is an online application to create and share papertoys.
Now possible to create a skin and see it in 3d.
It’s ideal for people with no Illustrator skillz, or who are not able to see objects in 3d. Its Pepakura and Illustrator in one!
You start of with a simple papertoy and you design a custom skin online (no need for other programs then you browser and a Flash plugin).
At the time of posting the site reached its maximum number of users, and when you do get the chance to get in it will take a very long time to load… It’s probably suffocating by it’s success. Try again some other time!
[via paper forest and the FWA]
Another skull from Glue² chronicle
It has more detail then the previous post, but can be customized. (although it will not be easy)
Good luck with the customization of this skull
A cool articulated paper skull from skull a day.
It’s probably inspired by readymech but with the nice addition of an articulated jaw.
Just click on the picture below and download the .PDF:
(download link: http://spacepirate.org/skulladay/papercraftskull.pdf. You can use acrobat to open the files)
This is one of my other ‘strange’ hobbies; I like skulls, not to have, but fascinated by it in art, clothing or when I’m scribbling on a piece of paper…
Start slideshow here
