Tag: Matt Hawkins

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Design Urban papercraft

Urban papercraft: Nice Bunny

Update #1: I’m now part of the Hedkase family

Why have I never written about Nice Bunny?

Probably because of the controversy around his first designs. The first time I saw a design of Nice Bunny was the “Nice Bunny Paper Toys” (Tagger, DJ, Samurai, etc.)
NiceBunny Paper Toys
I wanted to write about him immediately, but I read somewhere that this series was base upon BrickBoy from Sjors Trimbach and he was not happy about that.

This all has been cleared up, and you can see that the series is now with a little footnote:

The NiceBunny Paper toys are Brian Castleforte, inspired by & built on the BrickBoy template Sjors Trimbach, with permission.

(read about this story here, where Nice Bunny explains the whole story)

After all this was blown over I was to lazy to add Nice Bunny to the urban papercraft series.
(….)
And Nice Bunny exploded: he got a new site, started an online shop, started Nice Paper Toy (read my previous post), and started the Hedkase Artist series Paper Toys
Hedkase Artist Series Paper Toys
And with an impressive lineup:
Ben the Illustrator
Ben the Illustrator
PHIL
PHIL
Nick Knite (SIZZA)
Nick Knite
Matt Hawkins
Matt Hawkins
and the list goes on and on (check it out)

What can I say…. I’m sorry 😉

You can get the template here with an explanation how it works
hedkase Template
or use this direct link to the blank hedkase .PDF template

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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.

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Design Grumm Urban papercraft

Son of a Grumm

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.

This is: Son of a Grumm

Son of a Grumm

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.

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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