EGGBIRD (LIMITED FREE DOWNLOAD) - I’m still playing around with curved surfaces and ways to make it easy to fold them. This model is the result of a few folding tests and consists of a simple one sheet model you can put together in about half an hour. For a LIMITED time you can DOWNLOAD the model, including a blank version for customizing. So be quick before it’s gone.

SURPRISE - I grew up on a steady diet of caramel spread, licorice allsorts and Kinder Surprise, those chocolate eggs with a yellow capsule inside that contained a gift. Visits to my grandmother were usually rewarded with one those milky eggs with a surprise inside. This is my tribute to the many many surprise eggs I consumed and the tiny toys inside that I built. By the way, I did a little research on them and found out they are illegal in the US. So I guess this model is for non-US residents only :)

BRIGHT RED 1 & 2 - This is my tribute to two bright plastic toys I was totally fascinated by when I was a kid, the Viewmaster and the Etch-a-Sketch. I remember peeking into an empty viewmaster trying to see the inner workings and spending a whole afternoon scratching the window of the Etch-a-Sketch completely clean. Instead of creating exact paper replica’s I chose to do very simple interpretations that fit on a single page and are very easy to construct.

MONOLITH - This paperscene is based on an illustration I did a couple of years ago. It’s a mash-up of two of my favorite movies: Planet of the Apes and 2001 A Space Odyssey. Two movies that feature apes evolving into beings of higher intelligence. Or in my take on these movies eventually evolving into something of lower intelligence again.

SWANKY - The smoking jacket / fez combination is a fascinating combo that I noticed in works from a couple of my favorite illustrators, Derek Yaniger and Shag. So I wanted to try to create a papermodel inspired by those illustrations. Throw in a little Hugh Hefner, Cary Grant, Tommy Cooper and the moustache of Clark Gable. Add some alien DNA. Then you have Swanky, and he’s ready for a swell evening. Dean Martin’s ‘Ain’t that a kick in the head’ is on the record player. The cocktails are shaken and stirred. Time to party.

KAIA - Let me introduce you to Kaia, a surfer girl from the island Oahu and my tribute to the beautiful ladies from the Hawaiian Islands. It’s been a while since I did a female model (the twins Ulrike and Annika), so I thought I’d give the female shape another try. Always a challenge when you only use straight folds like me. I cheated a bit and kept the body slightly abstract, so no hands and feet. And I gave her a nice vintage bikini, because I love everything retro :)

TOO EARLY FOR BREAKFAST - This basically represents what I feel like every morning. The clothing and hair are separate parts, something I’ve played around with in my latest models and gives it some nice extra depth.

BLOCKS - Here’s a tribute those good old alphabet blocks.

ULRIKE AND ANNIKA - Meet Ulrike and Annika, your friendly flight attendants of ‘Free Space Airlines’.

BUT IS IT ART - For this project I designed the clothes as separate parts that are folded and glued over each other, instead of illustrating it on a single piece of paper. Even the tie is a separate piece. This was done to create some extra depth in the model, that I hadn’t achieve yet in earlier models.

EASY LISTENING - After a long series of personal projects created out of one piece I wanted to do something different for a change. This is my first model that was created from multiple parts. And not only that, it’s not only a single papertoy, but actually more of a paperscene, consisting of a character, a chair and a stereo-cabinet.

OCTOBERT - While working on my models for the book Papertoy Monsters there were some leftover concepts I still wanted to experiment with. This model came from some concepts sketches where I was playing around with tentacles.

BIRDY NUM NUM - While working on my models for the book Papertoy Monsters there were some leftover concepts I still wanted to experiment with. One of them was doing some multilayered effects like feathers and scales in a relatively ‘simple’ way. This model is the result of that.