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2009 Papercraft Calendar From CardBoy

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 [...]

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CardBoy Update

The folks over at CardBoy have posted a couple teasers on upcoming projects. Chapter One, A 48-page fully illustrated book, featuring CardBoy and friends and a few new characters, is coming soon. They’re also working on an animation, some new downloads and possibly a Halloween 2009 calendar. To celebrate the completion of Chapter One they’re [...]

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CardBoy @MoMA: Reinventing Color (and Toys as Art)

CardBoy Cartridges, created by UK-based graphic designer Mark James, have been selected to accompany the Color Chart: Reinventing Color exhibition at New York’s Museum of Modern Art. The exhibition celebrates a paradox: the lush beauty that results when contemporary artists assign color decisions to chance, readymade source, or arbitrary system. Color Chart is the first [...]

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