Tag: Marshall Alexander

Categories
Design Urban papercraft

Urban papercraft: PaperToys book Artists

Update #1: I have written a post about Jerom
Update #2: Read about Macula

I have written about the paperToys book from Matt Hawkins before: it’s a book about the most talented paperToy designers in the world!

(and I’m part of that group 😉 )

Because the list is so impressive I should write about these people…..
And I already did that: a lot of these paperToy designers are part of my Urban papercraft series

But there are some where I will not write about: not because they are not talented, but they don’t meet the requirements for my definition of Urban Papercraft. So I hope I don’t offend someone, but this group of designers will be striked out (like this)

  1. Shin Tanaka — 🙂 read my posts yes, wrote about him more then once…
  2. 3eyed Bear — 🙂 read my post
  3. Speaker Dog — 🙂 read my post
  4. Toypaper — 🙂 read my post I love papercraft/Flash
  5. Sjors Trimbach — 🙂 read my post one of the first paperToy designers a wrote about.
  6. Ken Munk — 🙂 read my post I really like the idea of hunting trophies
  7. Carlo Giovani — 🙁 very talented though
  8. E440 — 🙂 read my post
  9. Illectronics — 🙂 read my post
  10. Jonny Chiba — 🙂 read my post
  11. PHILL — 🙂 read my post
  12. Marshall Alexander
  13. Nice Bunny — 🙂 read my post very recently
  14. SIZZA — 🙂 read my post
  15. P.P. Bear 100% loading
  16. Big Chief
  17. Lou Lou
  18. Bryan Rollins
  19. Christopher Bonnette — 🙂 Update #2: read my post
  20. Grumm — nice dude! 😉
  21. Jerom — 🙂 Update #1: read my post
  22. Burlabox
  23. Rommy very, very, very cute, but no blank template
  24. Cubotoy — very beautyfull, can’t find blank template, pitty 🙁
  25. Matt Hawkins

I see I have my work cut out for me….

Categories
Design Urban papercraft

Urban papercraft: Nice Paper Toys

Some time ago Nice Bunny started a social network about papercraft.
Nice Paper Toy

There are a lot of very talented people who are already part of this network and you don’t need an invitation. The only thing you need, is the “love” for paperToys… 😉

And the nice thing about people who are all doing the same thing, you get really informative discussions!
I specially like the discussion about “Sharing Designs – How to Protect your Brainchild” which can be read here, with input from Sjors Trimbach, Nice Bunny (who had some ‘trouble’ with his first papertoys), Marshall Alexander (who started creating papertoys with a custom design of Readymech) and Matt Hawkins.
This discussion is not only very helpful for papertoy designers, but it’s very nice to read: people tell there horror stories, toes are being stepped on, history of some designs are explained, …. 😉

And what is a social network without the promotional stuff: here we have a Network Badge (Large)

Visit Nice Paper Toys

So visit me at Nice Paper Toys and join.

Categories
Grumm Urban papercraft

Paper Toy Book preview

Update #1: I got the complete list of paper toy designers from Matt Hawkins


Paper Toy Book preview, originally uploaded by Custom Paper Toys.

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

Here is an updated list of designers featured in the book put together by Matt Hawkins.

  1. Shin http://shin.co.nr/
  2. 3eyed Bear by Maarten Janssens http://www.3eyedbear.com Maarten Janssens
  3. Speaker Dog by Ben the Illustrator
    http://www.bentheillustrator.com/speakerdog_index.html
  4. toypaper http://www.toypaper.co.uk/
  5. Sjors Trimbach http://www.sjorstrimbach.com
  6. Antlor Ken Munk http://www.antlor.net/
  7. Carlo Giovani http://carlogiovani.com/
  8. E440 by Ringo http://alle440.blog.com/
  9. illectronics http://www.illectronics.com/work/misc/misc.html
  10. Jonny Chiba http://www.jonnychiba.blogspot.com/
  11. PHIL http://www.myspace.com/philtoys
  12. Marshall Alexander http://www.marshallalexander.net/
  13. Nice bunny by Brain Castleforte http://www.nicebunny.com/
  14. Sizza by Nick Knite http://www.nickknite.com/blog/
  15. P.P. Bear 100% loading http://www.100loading.com/
  16. Big Chief http://think.bigchief.it/toys
  17. Lou Lou http://www.echslectir.com/loulou/
  18. Bryan Rollins http://youdontseeus.blogspot.com/
  19. Christopher Bonnette http://www.flickr.com/photos/macula1/sets/72157603506573129/
  20. Matthijs Kamstra http://www.matthijskamstra.nl/blog/index.php/grumm/
  21. Jerom http://www.flickr.com/photos/11176587@N06/sets/72157603321627858/
  22. and Matt Hawkins www.custompapertoys.com