Pandacrew, the streetart-collective from Paris, grabbed some of our platform-toys to tag their infamous Panda onto. With determination to dominate the world leaving their mark combined with the ease to travel through desolated cyber-space it was only a matter of time before they would reach these shores…
Stage got pimped by both Ant and Etc. Etc. also transformed the bear into a futuristic biomechanical lighthouse he called ‘Headlight-Bot’. Wow!

Luckily for us, these 3 great new customs can be downloaded by simple clicking on the images.

Last year was kind of hectic, so we decided to prepare ourselves better for 2011. With this friendly table-calendar we will know what kind of weekday our birthdays will be. And how many weeks we still have to wait for it. Next whole year we will be a little bit smarter and a tiny less lonely with a new paper girlfriend from around the world every month. Wow, let’s get downloading it!

Happy New Year to everybody!

Long long time ago Mike Wohlwend from Egg Up had this idea to have paper-artists join forces in a visionary, massive collaborative paper project. 3Eyedbear and no-less than Shin Tanaka were invited to kick off a series where heads and bodies of paper characters were meant to be designed separately to mix and match between different designs. A good idea, better than the plan to have it all be featured in a printed magazine. Long story short: trees have been saved and now the project finally is launched online.

Go get them tigers!

Update:
EggUp didn’t last long unfortunately. It’s a shame interesting projects like this little off-beat magazine are not allowed the time to blossom fully. One day I hope someone with patience WILL crack the code. Art in combination with philosophy is interesting enough to deserve a chance.

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