Grumm

Meet Grumm, a moody piece of paper…

When I started writing about urban papercraft, I got inspired by Brickboy and Spiky Baby (and recently added to this list: e440): I wanted to create my own figure.
And so I did!

Grumm evolved in time, which is documented in a couple of post.
To give some highlights of the process: the beginning, prototype pictures, near completion and my first Grumm design Grumm the screamer red. (read everything)

In my definition of urban papercraft, there should be a design made by me and a blank version for other to customize…

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Grumm The Screamer Red

This is my design for Grumm:
Grumm The Screamer Red

Get the template here (Preview a thumb):

(The .ZIP file contains a .PDF)

For extracting data from a ZIP file you can use Filzip or 7-zip (both for PC and for free)
For reading a PDF you can use Adobe Acrobat Reader (for Apple, PC and for free).

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Artist series

Every papertoy designer starts a Artist series: invite all you friends, force them to create a custom skin for Grumm and post the results here:

GrummBunny by NiceBunny
GrummBunny is created by NiceBunny, check out his site and his HedKase series (which includes my custom: Grim Grinning Grunt)
Do you want to know more about NiceBunny, goto his site or visit my post about him.

Get the template here:

(The .ZIP file contains a .PDF)

Grummeling by Enkeling
Symen Veenstra aka Enkeling is a very talented illustrator and a good friend. We both went to the same art academy where we both studied graphic design
He called this Grumm: Grummeling

The .ZIP file contains a .PDF
(You can use freeware like FilZip or 7zip to extract a .ZIP-file and read a .PDF with Acrobat or Foxit)

Pink Grumm by Petra van Breugel
Petra van Breugel designed a Grumm in her favorite color: pink. And that simple reason is also the base for it’s name: Pink Grumm 🙂

The .ZIP file contains a .PDF
(You can use freeware like FilZip or 7zip to extract a .ZIP-file and read a .PDF with Acrobat or Foxit)

Little GrummerBoy by Hardy
Little GrummerBoy is a Grumm custom by Hardy. Hardy is a German graphic designer and allround creative.
You can visit Hardy on his own blog: thepaperjam.de, it’s in German so not readable for everyone 🙁 .
More into English? Perhaps you should visit him on myspace: Hardy has the most awesome myspace I have ever seen which is dedicated to his papertoy Bottecc

The .ZIP file contains a .PDF
(You can use freeware like FilZip or 7zip to extract a .ZIP-file and read a .PDF with Acrobat or Foxit)

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Grumm blank template

And here is the blank version for custom design (preview):

You will get a an Illustrator EPS file (Illustrator CS), where the different parts are positioned in the most easy position for designing a custom skin for Grumm. If you want to show your design here on this site, contact me and I will send you my email address.

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FAQ

Sometimes you just need answers, so here is my Frequently Asked Questions:
(it’s no list right now, but very soon I will collect all the questions asked, and put it here… )

[Q] How did you come up with the name Grumm
[A] I didn’t: a good friend (Enkeling) did.

[Q] What can I do with a zip file?
[A] Zip files are compression files. You need a program to extract these files. For extracting data from a ZIP file you can use Filzip or 7-zip (both for PC and for free)

[Q] What can I do with a pdf file?
[A] For reading a PDF you can use Adobe Acrobat Reader (for Apple, PC and for free).

Soon more faq, but keep em coming!

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Thanx to:

People who deserve some props:

Design Grumm site

• The Sandbox is a theme for themers. I’m loving it!
• Kaiser font by Chank
• Baron Kuffner font by Bumbayo Font Fabrik
• Stock.XCHNG, the leading FREE stock photo site for the images used in the design
• The background pattern by squidfingers.
• Mike Davidson for the creation of sifr which gave me the possibility for using the fonts described above
• And CHAITGEAR for creating a really good WordPress plugin to easily use sifr

Misc

• Creative Commons – This work is licensed under a CC Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 License.

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Other cool papercraft projects:

• Antlor
• Brickboy
• CardBoy
• e440
• SIZZA
• Jonny Chiba
• Matt Hawkins
• PHIL
• Readymech
• Shin Tanaka
• Speakerdog
• Toypaper
• 3 eyed bear
• Papercritters
• Paper forest
• Toypaper
• Carlo Giovani
• Illectronics
• Marshall Alexander
• Nice bunny by Brain Castleforte
• P.P. Bear 100% loading
• Big Chief
• LouLou
• Bryan Rollins
• Christopher Bonnette
• Jerom

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