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. PAPER TO THE PEOPLE!
Matt
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.
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.
Here is Splodey's brother Dudley. He's well, a dud.
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.
Very excited to announce that Subwalk in the Netherlands will be hosting an Urban Paper show in August! More details soon!
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!
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.
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!