WELCOME TO CUSTOM PAPER TOYS!

Hi friends, welcome to Custom Paper Toys! This is home for all the little paper creatures I make. There is a list over to the right of all my free paper toys you can download and have for your very own. I'll post a new free Paper Toy of the Month every month. I'll also be posting a stray paper toy here and there as well as my paper toy commissions and collaborations.
PAPER TO THE PEOPLE!
Matt

Arnie for Urban Paper at Subwalk

This is a papertoy I designed exclusively for the Urban Paper show at Subwalk in the Netherlands this August. I named him Arnie after the first boss i ever had. Rough and abrasive on the outside but a a real good guy on the inside. Also Subwalk is in a town called Arnhem so it works as a nod to that too. Soon I'll post some making of photos if your interested on my flicker.

And yes I did lose it once or twice gluing all those damn little spikes together.

Seems my papertoys are always made of flat or curved surfaces. I have be seeing tons of geometric paper folding online. So this idea came about from me trying to incorporate a geometric dimensional texture into one of my goofy papertoys.

Dudley bottle rocket papertoy

Here is Splodey's brother Dudley. He's well, a dud.
But on the plus side he's free! Download him right here.

Splodey the Bottle Rocket free papertoy

Okay so it's been a while since I've posted a free papertoy so I give you Splodey the Bottle Rocket just in time for the 4th. He's simple to build and free to download just click here for the PDF.
I'm also in the process of switching all the toys over to direct download, like Splodey here, so you don't have to mess with the hideous mediafire download thing to get my toys. Should have them all transferred by the end of the week.

CPT featured in Bang Art!

Check it, I got featured in issue 3 of the Italian arts magazine Bang Art. Build-O-Bama was featured on the back cover. Awesome! Thanks to the folks at Bang Art.

Signed copies of Urban Paper now available at my shop.

Signed and doddled copies of Urban Paper are now available online at The Custom Paper Toy Shop.
Yeah! Each book sold will help me make the fortune cookie fortune I got this weekend come true
I really want to make it out to the Netherlands for the Subwalk show. Then I get this fortune this weekend!!! It's fate don't ya think?

Urban Paper X Subwalk

Very excited to announce that Subwalk in the Netherlands will be hosting an Urban Paper show in August! More details soon!

CPT X Pink Hobo in the news!

How cool is this? I made the local news in Minneapolis, thanks to the good folks at Pink Hobo!

Urban Paper X Spanky Stokes

Spanky Stokes was at the Urban Paper launch in LA this last weekend and did some great coverage. Check out the video above and pics and more at Spanky Stokes.
Thanks Spanks.

Hand cut colored paper papertoys

Here is something new I've been working with this week that I'm really getting excited about, making papertoys with only glue and hand cut colored paper. I've been looking for a way lately to get more hand crafted goodness in my toys and little less digital. I really enjoyed making these and definitely want to explore this technique more. These are also bigger than the download versions. I'm also working on foot tall colored paper version of Oliver Ollie.
I'll be debuting these and more at the Urban Paper Launch show May 2 at Mobius 3300 W. 6th St., Los Angeles, CA please stop by if your in the area. It's gonna be a blast, hope to see you there!

Paper Toy & Pop Out Show

Here's some late breaking news! I'll have a few pieces in the Papertoy and Pop Out show at Pink Hobo in Minneapolis MN, Saturday April 18th! Due to my email dumping the original call for artist into my spam folder :( I didn't get an invite till last Friday and wasn't able to send them anything new for the show. I will have a few hand built toys from older templates, letterpress prints, and signed copies of Urban Paper there so if your in the area check it out. Lots of great artist involved for more info on the show click here.

CPT on the road

Doing a little travel this month stop by and say hi if your in the area of any of these events!

April 11- I'll be at the Papershapers show in LA at the Scion Instilation where my winning custom for the Giant Robot Shin Tanaka paper robot contest will be on display.
April 18-19 I'll be at SPACE (small press and alternative comics expo) in Columbus Ohio.
And finally the big one...

I'd like to invite everybody in the Los Angeles area to come out on May 2 and help us celebrate the release of Urban Paper. Nicebunny, Christopher Bonnette and myself will be on hand to sign books. There will be a papertoy art show too featuring one of a kind works from many of the designers featured in the book. See ya there!