Last week benefit-event Paper People, took place in Pordenone, Italy. Set outside and around it’s centre multiple exhibitions and workshops were held about nothing else than paperkits. Well, thát and with the profit all going to be used to buy material for the children ward of National Cancer Institute of Aviano we said: “Sure we join!”. Our bear got customized ‘live’ by artists Truetaip, FogoKromo, Corefolio, Hounworks, Marko Zubak, Nic Saloquin, Jack “Horrorwood” Hankins, Dyadic, We Talk About, Nicolas Vavassori and Mario Bosse but also already classic design by Vinsart, Kawaii-style, Matacho Descorp and SalAzad was featured. An impressive collection all together!

Look at PG Slis go, with his professional shiny gloves and all:

We just LOVE fluffybear (hands up for Nicolas Vavassori!), in front.

Don’t forget, it’s for a good cause.

update:
-Find all the new bear-customs here.

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

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.

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.