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One of the many, many little projects I’ve been working on are The Squidulons. I’ve teased photos of these in my Flickr for months, and my blog, but I’ve finally assembled the first set of five into one awesome wave. Please stay tuned as the story emerges. There are dozens of sketches for other citizens [...]
Continue reading...11. May 2009
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Sure, it’s killed a bunch of people, but it’s kinda got a funny name – like if we suddenly had a deadly epidemic called ‘Bananamortis’ or ‘Clownitosis’. I, for one, support the interpretation of potentially deadly epidemics into cute dolls and figures. Cubeecraft brings us ‘Swine Flu’, which is not only a really great set of [...]
Continue reading...11. May 2009
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After a grand reveal at the Urban Paper launch party on May 2nd, more of Jack Hankins’ user-generated Calling All Cars project has become downloadable, hot on the heels of last week’s initial wave. This week’s set of five includes the kinetic Machintoy, the redneckery of TheDayDreamKid, the villainous Macula (fro whom I regularly download new [...]
Continue reading...5. May 2009
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The kinetic, exciting art of phoneticontrol meets the organized limitations of papercrafting. They tussle for a good 30 minutes before they come to an understanding and totally start making out, getting along far better than anyone had ever anticipated. Things slip into a heavy R-rating, but the end result is the the very neat seventh [...]
Continue reading...5. May 2009
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While I anxiously await the release of my own Horrorwood-based octopus car in a future wave of Jack Hankins’ Calling All Cars series of papercrafts, I’ll be sated by these initial five releases, free to cut ‘n’ paste and make screechyvrooming noises all around the kitchen table with. Tear ass around those Cheerio racetracks, avoiding [...]
Continue reading...28. April 2009
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The guy’s 15 and he already has a papercraft series happening. When I was 15, I was probably watching Batman Adventures and drawing half-naked fairy chicks in the margins of my Humanities notebook. Things must be different in Australia. I bet it’s all of that kangaroo juice. You can’t take a step without getting it [...]
Continue reading...23. April 2009
I’ve been an avid papercrafting enthusiast since my early teen years when I spent my summer evenings listening to Jethro Tull’s ‘Heavy Horses’ and cutting out tiny strips of paper to make into dragons and stuff, but it’s never really been an organized creative front like the ‘designer toy’ thing – so I’m really pleased [...]
Continue reading...10. April 2009
This is the kind of thing I love to hear. Papercrafts plus me equals tingles in the ol’ scissors and glue. That’s not a euphemism, and if it were, it would be supremely gross. Horrorwood’s Jack Hankins has put out a call for artists to customize his original papercraft for his ‘Calling All Cars’ project, done [...]
Continue reading...1. April 2009
Jeremy’s mom did an awesome French translation for our bilingual interview with Skwak which sold me on the whole Skwak approach to art. So anyone seeking out an artifact from this crazy Frenchman can now print out & construct their own Skwak Hoophy. We’ve reached the halfway point in Shin Tanaka’s epic series of paper collaborations, [...]
Continue reading...20. March 2009
I’ve always loved papercrafting because it’s the ultimate in communal art toy freebies, available to anyone with a printer and the ability to use scissors without the risk of grievous self-injury. I might make an exception to this no-cost rule for the Piperoids. Given yesterday’s trip to the ER, I make no promises about the [...]
Continue reading...6. March 2009
You read his writing on ToyCyte. He writes about your paper toys and your custom figures. Now, Mr. ResonantFish himself has made the leap from behind the scenes to Patch Together. We knew Collin David was going to fit in at ToyCyte when he revealed his love for tentacles. You can see a handful of [...]
Continue reading...27. February 2009
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For a man who has built his own unique empire on the unwitting back of George Lucas, The Sucklord’s finally getting some much-deserved respect from the scary Skywalker Empire themselves. Buy a pack of Star Wars Galaxy : Series 4 trading cards (without blushing) and you just might snag one of 3000 cards featuring original art [...]
Continue reading...27. February 2009
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I’m not exactly sure why this particular group of seven papercrafters has united against the threat of ‘Fake’, which they clearly ‘Don’t Need’, but I’m always grateful for whatever catalyzes new papercraft designs. I’m on a budget, people. If papercrafting were ever to unite and need a slogan, I’d like to suggest ‘Papercrafting : Since [...]
Continue reading...24. February 2009
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ToyCyte bud Mike Leavitt is back, and this time, he’s trading clay for cardboard. In “Don’t Stop Object Shopping,” Mike has faithfully recreated signature sneakers in cardboard. From a distance, or with my poor vision, you’d be hard-pressed to tell leather from paper with this level of detail. In this exhibition, Leavitt signals an art market [...]
Continue reading...2. February 2009
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We’ve already had a preview of Shin Tanaka’s March Hoophy collaboration with David Horvath, but the glorious first days of February have now revealed Hoophy Issue #04, created by Superdeux and seen here in the wild, posing before Japan’s imposing Mount Godzilla. Which he is very happy about. As with all other Hoophys, he’s free to [...]
Continue reading...30. January 2009
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Anybody who has every pondered the planning of a wedding knows that the fine art of letterpressed paper is not cheap. However, here’s the rare instance where letterpressed is free. Two of ToyCyte’s favorite papercrafters: Letter Pressed and Matt Hawkins have collaborated on this downloadable Presston mascot. Writes Letter Pressed’s Mark: “We knew it would [...]
Continue reading...23. January 2009
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Readers of Giant Robot Magazine might already be aware of this, but you’re 2 issues deep into a vast collaboration between Hoophy-master Shin Tanaka and the car-mo-trons at Scion. Starting with issue 56, Shin and Scion began publishing a three-part papercraft, which consists of three roboty guys which can then be assembled all Voltron-style into [...]
Continue reading...14. January 2009
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The march of Shin Tanaka’s papercraft Hoophies continues with the quiet announcement that David Horvath will be contributing one of his Uglydesigns to Hoophy : Issue 05, to be released for download in March (after February’s mysterious, unrevealed Issue 04). Rampant blogger Horvath, of Uglydoll fame, has created a paper-friendly version of his Bossy Bear to [...]
Continue reading...6. January 2009
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Intrepid paper craftologist Shin Tanaka has been bustin’ out his newest urban-paper line, the Hoophy, in fairly consistent volumes since last year – but 2009 marks the beginning of a series of new collaborations, beginning with this black ‘n’ blue guy by Mr. David Flores. You’ll probably recognize Flores’ interesting, geometric, stained-glassy style over the [...]
Continue reading...1. January 2009
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The flat-packed freedom fighter is back with a 2009 calendar. This year’s design from CardBoy is based around the Chinese Zodiac (year of the Ox). The free papercraft calendars should tide you over until the previously-blogged t-shirts and book come out later this year. You can download them at the CardBoy website right now. Since [...]
Continue reading...23. December 2008
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So, your mantelpiece is looking a little barren this year. The dog ate your little porcelain Jesus, and the candlesitcks are someplace in the attic, buried under a shantytown’s worth of tattered coats. You do, however, have a printer this computer, so before it’s too late, make something special happen. Lord knows that my family [...]
Continue reading...19. December 2008
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Maarten Janssens dropped us a line alerting us to this Dutch papercraft site he’s been running. The website is dedicated to supplying folks with free, imaginative paper creatures, no strings attached! Go download all the .PDF paperkits by clicking [...]
Continue reading...11. December 2008
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The innovative folks at Mi2 Studio have released a paper toy (designed by Hugo and Mi2) based on their Buddha’s Delight figure that dropped my jaw back in September. The paper toy (which, happily is sans-swastika) can be downloaded for free here. Mi2 hopes that this paper doll can spread love around the world and [...]
Continue reading...9. December 2008
From the paper mills of the Miskatonic comes Jerome Thieulin’s Ktulu, by way of France and John “Dork Tower” Kovalic’s vinyl ‘My Little Cthulhu’. Judging by the continued presence of Kovalic’s un-eviscerated head on his shoulders, Cthulhu tolerates this kind of cute interpretation. Hail, Cthulhu! A neat approximation as close as single-sheet papercrafting can accomplish, Thieulin’s [...]
Continue reading...6. December 2008
I sometimes wonder if Frank Kozik gets tired of answering the same questions over and over. While I was circulating the VTN floor, Frank was attended to by various camera crews and fans waiting for signings. He had a ton of merch from hand-painted exclusives to Sharkys and Muttpop and kaiju figures to some Qees [...]
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13. June 2009
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