Since we accidentally broke the tradition of publishing an annual mini-calendar last year we’ve been receiving virtual bags stuffed with mail begging us NOT to ever break it any more. We are sorry and pick up the lost trail again with this new little camouflaged puppy-desktop-kit forecasting all the dates and days for the whole year of 2013. Since the Mayan calendar just is about to crash, we figure lots of people are in desperate need for a new one.
Now we are hoping for the same amount of emails thanking us dearly for this nifty and sweet gift.

Happy New Year everyone: CLICK!

The Snorfs are your friendly little home-gnomes to brighten up any place. They are small and quite easy to assemble so we believe we did all we could to have you build him a friend. And another one. Or fourteen!
And since we are design-savy, we’ve created many different colours to choose from. Your friends will be amazed about how magazine-worthy AND funny your crib looks like. We also made sure to hand-pick our Snorfs from all around the globe, because the interwebs simply makes a world small. You see? We try to make EVERYone a happy camper. We can not help it.
Don’t forget to share your adventures and photos with us.

Below are all the different Snorfs. Just click any friend for the template to be flying over to your browser in an instant. Ssnnorrff!

If you experience difficulty in choosing which one to be your favourite, we’ve put all the Snorfs in one image: click here.

Update:
-MaryAnne (UK) picked 12 Snorfs to help her out with Christmas.

August 11 and 12, Matthijs Kamstra (MCK), Marshall Alexander, Nick Knite and 3Eyedbear will host the “Urban Paper” exhibition in picturesque Arnsberg, Germany. Original artwork from all over the world (including Hawkins!, Tanaka!, Togui!, Azad!…) will be shown in the paper world created by the hosts. It’s like the Olympic games for paper engineers without the sweaty hormonal sports but with loads of cardboard, precision-knives and colourful paper. And an opening-ceremony with Becks! I hope  

3Eyedbear will introduce a brand new model, the Snorfs, so keep coming back: they will be released right after this show is over. In the meantime, we encourage everyone to rip the poster and spam the interwebs.

Update:
-We’ve uploaded a few pictures of Stage being built bigger than life.
-Here’s a (moving) impression of the show by Marshall Alexander.
-German newspaper article with Snorfs.

There are a few legends around the Maneki Neko. She (or maybe a he) supposedly saved some rich guy’s life long long ago by waving him to go away from under a tree that got hit by lightning. Also there’s a story about a beheaded cat that brought the grieving owner luck after being reincarnated into a wooden statue or appearing in a poor woman’s dream with a good business-proposal.
Point is, since the 17th century this cat brings Luck, Health, Wealth and Love, so we felt the need to repay his duties by recreating him in the purest and delicate canvas of all: paper. May Maneki Neko keep on being our beloved good luck charm and live his paper-life in good health, prosperity and full of love himself. It’s the least we can do.

We have four Maneki Neko’s to choose from:
-Gold, for  Wealth
-Pink, for Love!
-White, for Prosperity
-Black, against all bad luck

Good luck everybody! Feel free to fill the commentbox with your good wishes for the world, or background information about Maneki Neko that can help us improve the kits 

Last months seemed to have been very quiet? Au contraire, but a lot of stuff got prioritized over posting, that’s all. Headquarters moved to a new place on the other side of town (A place that got to be build first) and to another server in cyberspace. We still are looking in boxes for stuff we lost during the move a few weeks ago and get confronted with little bugs, but we feel confident to pick up things where we left them, to begin with some custom designs.

First of all we were happy to be invited to produce another custom-bear to celebrate the joyous fact an immensely huge bear-statue got revealed in the pro-active ‘New West’-part of Amsterdam. Everyone could bring home a tiny version of the same sleepy colossus thanks to designer Iwan Daniëls. If you don’t mind the Dutch gibberish, just click ‘download’ on this page to get your own bear and complete your collection.

Also, lovely Darla, master-chef from sweet pie heaven Bakingdom customized Howie Owl into 3 new Harry Potter characters Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw and Slytherin. You can also bake a cake (or ten!) while you are at it getting these beauties (scroll down to the end of the post).

Another new bear-custom was sent to us by French designer Merrci. From being a fanatic papertoy-collector, he naturally moved up via customizing to designing (great) kits of his own. He’s an example to us all, thankks for that   Get his custom here.