From July 4th until the end of the year the Dutch National Museum of Printing runs the fine little show “Creative Paper”, showing what to be done with (printed) paper other than just scribble and print upon. In an old landmark farmhouse in Etten-Leur stacked with shiny and working (!) old industrial printing presses in the south of Holland, visitors will be able to discover gems of paper art ranging from classic origami, cut-out and pop-up to modern urban paperkits. Even without this exhibition, I love the museum for all the big moving, puffing, smelly, almost fantastical and dangerously looking machines from a Jules Verne kind of era when creating machinery was done with pride and creating books was a legitimate art form in itself. You are allowed (but safely guided) to make prints yourself and see a bookbinder or typesetter work their craft. It made me realize what has been lost nowadays where printing seems to be reduced to ordering books as cheap as possible online from some anonymous factory in cheap-laboured China.

Working back in the days almost looks romantic

“Creative Paper” tries hard to inspire a new generation in showing the beauty in paper as it still can be found today, but especially the context makes the trip worth wile.

Safety first

Up close and personal

Saturday June 26 all summer-afternoon 3Eyedbear and his friends from StraatPapierHollandKlik will give acte de présence at the ABC Urban Arts Festival at the Spui-square in Amsterdam. Together with Matthijs -Grumm- Kamstra, 3Eyedbear will give a workshop and sign the new art-book on papertoys: We Are Papertoys. Come say hello  

More info about the festival:
-workshop promo-clip
-ABC-Blog
-Facebook

Tonight is FightNight at the Paper Fight Club! 3Eyedbear has created and sent new model/warrior Oempf to do the fighting. He will go against Wu Xing, created by host Zerolabor and the winner will enter the first tournament as the Champion, defending his titel. Go there to support Oempf and/or download him.
The idea behind the club is to let Toys be toys, so paper-engineers are invited to bring their price-fighters into the ring to determine which one will be a true champion and which one goes back home bruised and broken.

Of all the fighters presented a blanco template will be made available so you can customize a fighter of your own and if you dare bring to the next series of bloody fights. Yes, I typed blood, but the honour of being victorious shall be sweet too
Click on the belt to glaze at it’s utter beauty!

From March 30th for two weeks you can see what paper-doctors have done to Rodrigo de Papel, a character designed by French graphic artist Guillaume-Tougui-Pain. The line-up is A-ok so if you are in Paris to visit Le Louvre, you might as well hop into sub11 and check what’s happening in the art-scene right now at Dune Café .

We did a custom too, something with a TV and 3EyedBear-channel playing I believe, but you will have to go to find out, Right? 

(Click the banner to get to see the poster)

Update:
-Download them all!
-Photos by Café Dune here.

For all those customizing designers out there: here’s Stage, our very own catwalk-model to show us your personal vision on (the future of) hoodies. Here’s your chance to show the world what a great fashion-designer you really are. And it’s quite simple too. Just download the custom model and start sketching. And when you think your design will do Stage and your vision justice, you can send your design back to us. Stage comes with an attitude, so only the designs he feels comfortable with will make it to 3EyedBear’s own catwalk-show. To start with the winter-collection.

For all those who just want to build Stage: you can download his first set called ‘Bling’ by clicking on his picture upper left.

Digital catwalk preview. First one is ‘Tabula Rasa’, by us 

Creations by:
Tougui, France || Grave, USA || Pandakroo, France

This month, in the final episode for the Urban Paper travelling show it’s the last time you will be able to see the work from artists featured in the Urban Paper book all-together. Everything will be for sale also, so bring money to the Rivet art-gallery in Columbus, Ohio to get your hands on real hand-made, signed and unique paperkits (and some swag) by these fabulous paper-engineers. Thanks to Colleague-Extraordinaire Matthew Hawkins who brought us together, put what we do in lime-light and changed some careers along the way. Again, this is your last chance to see why.

Paper has always been beating rock, right? So…

Update:
Matt Hawkins took photo’s of the show here.

Let’s kickstart 2010 punctual with this well-dressed time-manager who will tell you what day fits a date and if the moon is full or new. He’s small enough not to snatch necessary space on your desk and big enough to have your eye on the ball: planning! Don’t ask him why you only need a precision-knife and a bit of time, he doesn’t have a glue.

Best wishes everybody!

In December this year, there will be a little expo around Maarten Janssens and his work for 3Eyedbear in the foyer of theater ‘Tramwerkplaats’ in Winschoten, the Netherlands. December 15, he will open the exhibition at 20:00hr with a lecture about his work after a day of visiting local schools. So he might be a little tired-looking, but please be nice to him.

Update:

We (obviously) think the expo deserves a trip through the snow to be seen. Not only did we have to adept the environment into solid cardboard to pull you in 3Eyedbear’s world, we also show never-before-seen work, a little behind the scene-peek into our future and some original analogue artwork. Everything you see will be explained, so even for an exhibition almost entirely consisting of tiny creatures, you will spend more time investigating the whole than building just one small element of it. Do the math. It’s the first time the WHOLE 3Eyedbear-universe comes together like this and to celebrate that we created this very limited-edition package with some random and unique stuff you can only buy here.
If you are still not foaming in the corners of your mouth by excitement, did I tell you that you can write on the walls? Bring Pens! But please respect the stuff that took us two days to build and hang 

The end of the show:

We thank Tramwerkplaats for sticking out it’s neck and Smurfit-Kappa for supplying us with the source-material!

More links:
-Het Streekblad, in Dutch (don’t mind the wrongly chosen picture, it’s NOT me!)
-Woest en Ledig, blog by Joep van Ruiten, in Dutch. Also published in Dagblad van het Noorden.

3Eyedbear has supplied the FabFibe-show with a custom Bear.
Everyone come and see an endless line of custom Lovebears and BoxyBats, all collected and assembled by lovely Nana Roomism at the Sculpture Square in Singapore-City this weekend. Also, I guess an evenly impressive line of fabric dolls are on display, so it’s ok to bring your girl 

Opening: Friday December 18th at 11:00
Ending: Sunday December 20th at 20:05

Look at this fine steampunk-era bear! It’s designed by Vincent from Vinsart and we love it so much we adopt him into the 3Eyedbear-family. Maybe we can help him with the eye he probably broke during transmission in cyberspace. But that’s another era 

Go download it here.