Paper Punk

Check it out Paper Punk friends…our newest titles have landed! Get some for yourself and for a friend pronto…here’s a snapshot of the complete family of punks!

Courtesy of the artful hands of designer Maria Janosko:

Look at what’s coming down the pipe for Paper Punk…..a GORILLA. A little online digging informed us that a gorilla is an ape like a square is a rectangle, but NOT the other way around for either of the two. Due to cover space constraints, this kit will be aptly titled APE001. We’ll share where our chest pounding primate’s colors and patterns land, hunch posture intact, very soon.

Paper blocks look like artful pixels when waiting in line to be glued into paper toy sculptures. View includes partial components of 5x PUPs, BOTs and RIDEs. Made models headed to the Schulers Books and Music stores in the Midwest. They just hosted a summer Paper Punk camp….how cool is that?!

To kick off the summer, wanted to show you a couple freeze-free friends we’re getting ready for you later this year. Meet SNOWGUY/SNOWGAL! This new title has a double cover and a smaller package of goodies, but chock full of the same Paper Punk goodness. Loving the warm weather, but cannot wait for people to make a bunch of these guys+gals. Coming your way when the first leaf falls off your tree.

Look at the album of pics from PUNK-A-THON-001 held this past Saturday at the Youth Rebuild Rock Concert in Marin, CA! An all-you-can-make buffet of shapes/stickers/fun was made available for all attendees! All profits went to the Windhorse Foundation for an orphanage in Laos. The teen version of Michael Hedges on bass performed…it was cool!

Made my day…

Good thing lots of ink/airtime has been following Jonah Lehrer‘s new book IMAGINE: HOW CREATIVITY WORKS. Because now that the topic of creativity is in the spotlight, we have to draw a heavy dotted line to the importance of PRACTICING it to build your creative potential. It’s interesting enough to learn about how, where and why, but let’s roll up our sleeves and actually activate it. One simple way is to get busy with your hands and make something…anything. (a Paper Punk can help you)

Here’s an interesting interview with Jonah on his book: Jonah Lehrer interview via TechCrunch

Lots of gems, but my personal favorite in this moment: “We have to stop holding ourselves back…” AKA and note-to-self: We gotta get out of our own way!

Thought it would be cool for you to see where the white-ghost KITTY001 prototype landed for our Fall 2012 release. I am in love with our new feline friend! Can’t you already hear the cat calls and whistles for this purr-dy lady? Everyone, get ready to pucker up!

Super cool exhibit, DO NOT DESTROY: Trees, Art, and Jewish Thought, opened at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco today. It explores the subject of the tree through the eyes of an international group of contemporary artists. As part of the exhibit, fifty-seven artists were commissioned to make a piece incorporating reclaimed wood into new works of art, inspired by the themes of the Jewish holiday of Tu B’Shevat (New Year for the Trees). It is a beautifully staged show and runs through late May. Here’s the Paper Punk inspired piece I made for the exhibit.