Urban Paper: Book Launch & Paper Toy Art Show @ SUBWALK, The Netherlands (August 1)

PRESS: Gallery SUBWALK in Arnhem, the Netherlands opens on Saturday August 1st Urban Paper: book launch + paper toys art show. The show will be a celebration of the European release of the Urban Paper book and a showcase of the newest paper pieces by both national and international artists which will be on view throughout August. [CLICK THRU for more, including a little video preview of the Urban paper book]

The Urban Paper show opens on Saturday August 1st at 8pm with a slew of Dutch designers on hand and will be on view through August 30th (Click thru to view list). On Friday the 21st of August a lecture is held by paper toy pioneer Sjors Trimbach (creator of Brickboy and paper-sculptor of PHONETICONTROL's Thought Processor).

SUBWALK urban art + culture [www]
Hommelsestraat 65 - 6828 AJ Arnhem - +31 (0)26 4420904 - info@subwalk.nl -

PRESS-CONTINUED: Paper toys are the fastest growing trend in the designer toy world. Through their free online availability they form a unique platform or both designers and collectors. Urban Paper is the first book to capture these toys. It contains 26 ready-to-build paper toy templates by top designers, interviews with the artists and a step-by-step how-to on designing your own paper toys.

SUBWALK’s Urban Paper show brings the best one-of-a-kind handmade paper toys by all Urban Paper contributors such as: TETSUYA WATANABE, BRIAN CASTLEFORTE, BEN O’BRIEN, FILIPPO PERIN, MATT HAWKINS, MCKIBILLO, JACK HANKINS, SHIN TANAKA and KENN MUNK. It will also premier new paper toys designed exclusively for the expo by Dutch artists: LOULOU, MARSHALL ALEXANDER, MAARTEN JANSSENS, MATTHIJS KAMSTRA, RINGO KRUMBIEGEL, DOLLY OBLONG and SJORS TRIMBACH.

For more info: get in touch with Roos (info@subwalk.nl) or Sjors Trimbach (sjors@sjorstrimbach.com).

(cheers for the headsup, Dolly!)


[Urban Paper in 90 seconds / via]

Product Description:
Hip designers will love this collection of 25 paper toys ready to be cut out and built. This fun project book includes step-by-step instructions, diagrams, and a section about how to design your own paper toys from scratch. Plus, a bonus CD-ROM features patterns for all 25 toys and even more templates to print out. Complete with interviews from the toy designers, this fun guide gives you everything you need to build and even design your own cutting edge urban paper toys.
About the Author:
Matt Hawkins is an incessant doodler. He lives in Kansas City with Alicia, Henry and Lily. By day, he works at a C3, a children's marketing agency as an illustrator/papertoy designer. By night he stays up way too late in his attic studio making designer papertoys for his own amusement and freelance papertoys for clients. He shares his papertoys with the world at www.custompapertoys.com. He's always cutting or folding or glueing something.

[All product info & text via Amazon / previously posted on TRE]