Thanksgiving Turkey

It's Thanksgiving time! Here is a Turkey Paper Foldable you can make: www.paperfoldables.com/turkey_foldable.pdf

Awesome V Collection

I am honored to have my "My V Friend" Paper Foldable included in this AWESOME collection of ol' skool V memorabilia! Photos were uploaded by "heilue" in the My V Friend Flickr group! Download and make your own V pal and post your pics!

Make My V Friend here: www.paperfoldables.com/vguy_paperfoldable.pdf

Finger Football Game

Here's a project I worked on back in 2008 for Manchester United. I was illustrating assets for a CD-ROM and came up with this idea for a fun downloadable Paper Foldable soccer game. The original idea was to have a single "finger footballer" character that you can slip onto your pointer digit and use it to try and flick a piece of popcorn into your friend's mouth hole. They liked the idea and we expanded it into a full-on desktop game complete with goalie, ball, and net! One player uses his finger footballer to try and flick the ball into the net, while the other controls the goalie to try and block the shot (you may have to tape the net down to your desk). I also made an animation demonstrating all you need to know to get started!

Make the Finger Footballers game set here: www.paperfoldables.com/fingerfootballgame_set.pdf

Hot Paper

Alexander Gwynne's animated paper toy review show, "Hot Paper" reviews my CommanderVideo BIT.TRIP Paper Foldable in the latest episode!

TWIKI from BUCK ROGERS

I got the sudden urge to make a "TWIKI" Paper Foldable last night, so here it is. TWIKI (TWKE-4) was the goofy little robot with the bowl haircut from the show, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century. He would stumble around saying "BIDI BIDI" and stuff. I vaguely remember watching this show when I was a little kid, so it's burned permanently into my childhood memory bank. Attached to Twiki's chest is this talking computer thing called "Dr. Theopolis"... and this was BEFORE Flavor Flav rocked the giant clock! I used to call my little brother Twiki, because he had the same haircut.

Make TWIKI here: www.paperfoldables.com/twiki_foldable.pdf

Friday the 13th - SANDY

Happy Friday the 13th! I am a big Friday the 13th movie fan. Sometimes my birthday falls on a Friday the 13th, I have a collection of Jason actor autographs, and I even go camping where they made the 01st movie! It's a healthy obsession. So to celebrate, I wanted to start a new Paper Foldables tradition. On every Friday the 13th of the calendar year, I'll release a new Paper Foldable based on a Friday the 13th movie character!

Jason seemed the obvious choice for the debut Friday the 13th Paper Foldable, but I love the obscure and went with "Sandy", the diner waitress from part 01! Sandy is only in the movie for a minute or 02, but they are memorable moments... trying to figure out if that's a man in drag or what? Alas, Sandy, played by Sally Anne Golden, is indeed woman... a handsome woman! She flirts and serves up Steve Christy's last meal before his fated trip back to camp.

"Two and a quarter... and that's it!"

Make Sandy the Diner Waitress here: www.paperfoldables.com/f13sandy_foldable.pdf

Atari 2600 Business Card Holder

I made this promotional business card holder in the form of an Atari 2600 console system for Austin Tech Realty. Fit up to 35 standard size business cards in the cartridge slot!

Make one here: www.paperfoldables.com/ataribizcard_foldable.pdf

BIT.TRIP CommanderVideo

Here's the Paper Foldable of "CommanderVideo" I made for Gaijin Games to promote their awesome BIT.TRIP WiiWare game series. I am a big fan of these retro-inspired chiptune rhythm games, so I jumped at the chance to design their Paper Foldable hero! If you have a Wii, check out the BIT.TRIP games, "BEAT" and "CORE", with "VOID" coming out soon too!

Make CommanderVideo here: www.gaijingames.com/files/commandervideo_foldable.pdf

Adult Swim Animation

Supposedly, I have an animation airing all this month on Adult Swim at the 4:30am slot on the show, "Paid Programming: Icelandic Ultra Blue".

Screenshots: www.envisionboy.com/portfolio/icelandicultrablue.html

Kid Niki Contest Winner!

Congratulations to Michelle Chen of Tempe, Arizona for winning the Kid Niki Paper Foldables contest! Michelle's name was chosen out of a hat and she wins the complete set of handmade Kid Niki Paper Foldables and the ol' skool NES game cartridge! Thanks to all who entered and for all the kind words!

Business Card Holders

I designed a couple of business card holders for the Creative Direction/Motion Design/Animation studio, Flock of Pixels. Check them out here: www.justinkatz.posterous.com/papercraft-biz-card-holders

The bird is the word: blog.flockofpixels.com/papercraft-templates-free

Papercraft: Design and Art with Paper

Look for me on page 72 of the cool new book, "Papercraft: Design and Art with Paper"! Definitely lots of interesting stuff in there that should be inspiring to all papercrafters. I also have some stuff on the supplemental DVD-ROM.

Kid Niki Contest!

Win the complete set of hand made KID NIKI Paper Foldables by Bryan AND the original Nintendo NES KID NIKI video game cartridge!

To enter send email by October 31, 2009 with “Kid Niki Contest” in subject line to: bryan@paperfoldables.com

Winner will be chosen at random via name-in-a-hat lottery technique!

The Visitors Are Landing

I was psyched to see this giant billboard in Manhattan today promoting the upcoming remake of "V"! The original series from the 80's was a huge part of my childhood. I even had a V club, which basically consisted of me and my little brother spelling out "V" with pine cones in our backyard. I also used to make V glasses out of paper that had crayon coloured eyes that were removable to reveal the scary lizard eyes! In case you missed it the 01st time, be sure to check out the "My V Friend" Visitor Paper Foldable! Yay!

Make "My V Friend" here: www.paperfoldables.com/vguy_paperfoldable.pdf

Princess Margo - Kid Niki Paper Foldables

OK, NOW I am officially done with the Kid Niki Paper Foldables set. I figured I couldn't have the Kid and all those bosses without the reason for his journey- his prized dame, the lovely Princess Margo, in all her 08-bit bondage beauty!

Make Princess Margo here: www.paperfoldables.com/princessmargo_foldable.pdf

Kid Niki - Radical Ninja

I figured we'd need someone to defeat all these bosses, so here is our hero, Kid Niki! This is the final piece to my Kid Niki Paper Foldables set! Included is his mystical spinning sword! Again, Kid Niki was my favourite Nintendo NES game when I was a kid and I had a great time making this set... I hope you like it!

Make Kid Niki here: www.paperfoldables.com/kidniki_foldable.pdf

Round 7 vs. Stone Wizard

Here is the final boss of my Kid Niki series, "Stone Wizard"! This is the guy who kidnapped Kid Niki's girlfriend causing the radical ninja to fight through all of the previous levels and bosses to try and save her. At level 07, Stone Wizard stands atop a set of stairs spitting fireballs at you. You can see the girlfriend/princess tied up just beyond waiting for her hero! You have to dodge the fireballs and attack the Stone Wizard, who upon defeat, turns into a little spirit thing and flies away. Then Kid Niki can go get his girlfriend for some points! The End! ...or is it? UGH! Level 08 what??? Well I guess after you save the damsel, you have to chase after the bubble blowing Stone Wizard and finish him off for good to become the ultimate radical ninja of all time. Yay! So there it is... the Kid Niki Boss series! I guess I have to make the Kid himself now.

Make the Stone Wizard here: www.paperfoldables.com/stonewizard_foldable.pdf

Urban Paper Art Show - Kansas City

Here's a couple photos from the latest Urban Paper show in Kansas City that featured my Paper Foldables: Sickly Cat, My V Friend, Fried Chickenhead, and Jellyfish! Thanks to Matt Hawkins for these pictures. See the Flickr set here: www.flickr.com/photos/custompapertoys/sets/72157622394445669/

Also be sure to check out the Urban Paper book:

Jail Correspondence - Hipster Grifter

I am sending Kari Farrell, aka- "The Hipster Grifter", a jail care package to thank her for inspiring the Hipster-of-the-Month Paper Foldables series I have been doing for FREEwilliamsburg.com! Please feel free to send her more Paper Foldables of herself! I am sure it gets lonely in jail: www.freewilliamsburg.com/archives/2009/10/write_to_the_hi.html

If you missed it the 01st time around, check out the story and the foldable here: www.freewilliamsburg.com/archives/2009/05/hipster-grifter-foldable.html

UPDATE:

Unfortunately, the Hipster Grifter did not receive the Paper Foldable I made of her. I had packaged it with a couple packs of Garbage Pail Kids and did not know that stickers were on the list of contraband! Return to sender :(

Hipster With the Skinny Jeans

Here's installment #04 of my Hipster-of-the-Month series for FREEwilliamsburg.com, "Hipster With the Skinny Jeans"! Hipsters like standing out by dressing alike. Dress code usually include the SKINNY JEANS (or cut-off jean shorts) base, complimented with tight, loud chic shirts (anything with snap buttons are cool), sweatbands, Rachel Ray terror scarf, mustache, trucker hat, tattoos, vintage sunglasses, etc... anything "ironic" (like rain on your wedding day). I live in Brooklyn, so hipster poseurs are unavoidable. I saw a guy wearing a John Deere hat (a popular item) the other day, the irony being he's probably never done yard work (now you're getting it!). That gave me the idea to put some irony ON the irony and make it into a "Dear John" hat! "Dear John" was a TV show in the 80's starring Judd Hirsch, who replaces the deer in the logo on the hat. I thought it was clever. I spent about a half a day working up the illustration of Judd Hirsch's face, only to shrink it down to a quarter-inch for a joke nobody will get. I think it's worth it!

This hipster is designed to sit on the edge of your desk or computer or whatever... I wanted him to have long dangly legs. My original plan was to include shoes, but that would push the template to 02 pages and I want to keep things as simple as possible.

Make a Hipster With the Skinny Jeans here: www.freewilliamsburg.com/archives/2009/09/hipster_foldabl_1.html

Dear John

My next Hipster Paper Foldable will be sporting this ironic trucker hat I designed. Too obscure?

Gutter Punk Crusty Bank - Hipster #3

Here's my 03rd installment of the Hipster-of-the-Month series for FREEwilliamsburg.com, "Gutter Punk Crusty Bank"! I guess Williamsburg, Brooklyn is being overrun with these gross homeless punks who annoy people by panhandling for beer change and squat in various buildings. This is probably the most nauseating research time I've ever spent... track marks, tattoos, piercings, those tight plaid punk pants... ecch. I designed this punk to act as a bank too! So instead of giving your hard earned change from your iced coffee to a punk, save it in your very own Gutter Punk Crusty Bank! The coin slit in the punk's mouth is big enough to fit a quarter, so don't go and try forcing a half dollar down his throat or he'll choke. I had a fun time thinking up silly tattoos and patches. For example, I thought it would be funny that a punk would spend time cross stitching a Norman Rockwell picture and you can also find a nice "Shaq Fu" patch on the jacket! How counterculture is that?!

You can read all about Gutter Punks and make your very own Paper Foldable version here: www.freewilliamsburg.com/archives/2009/07/hipster_foldabl.html

The Depreciation Guild

I made a Paper Foldable for one of my favourite bands, The Depreciation Guild, to promote their new record, "Dream About Me". The foldable is based on their album cover artwork, which features a sort of isometric pixel cityscape. Be sure to check out the band and the foldable here: www.thedepreciationguild.com

DUSHI SUSHI

I had an idea for a Paper Foldable character this morning and just had to crank it out. DUSHI SUSHI! "Dushi", like "douchey" AND it rhymes with sushi! I thought it was funny. I went out and got sushi at lunch and actually scanned in my shrimp/asparagus roll and asked for a sheet of that green seaweed wrap to scan as the skin. Then you just add the popped collar shirt and instant DUSHI SUSHI! Yay!

You can make DUSHI SUSHI here: www.paperfoldables.com/dushisushi_foldable.pdf

Paper Foldable Promotion Blankets NYC

Here's some sightings sent in to me of my typewriter Paper Foldables promoting the Christopher Herz novel, "The Last Block in Harlem". Canal Publishing is making a bunch and distributing/littering them all over NYC. Have you found one yet?

Be sure to check out the foldable and the book here: www.canalpublishing.com