Collectible papercraft toys – Cubicity
I decided to start a ‘line’ of very, very simple papercraft toys. I’m calling it Cubicity, as these have a, well, rather square shape, and the overall topic is slightly urban. Well, actually the cubicity people come from all walks of life, and if you look closely you will even discover that some are from fairy land, but I’m happy enough with ‘cubicity’.
These are essentially small boxes (3cm high) which are extremely simple to assemble. The idea is to have toys that are fun to play with and robust enough to last some time. The boxes can be opened and flattened in an instance, making these very portable. The ideal toys to take on a trip, or have the kids kill some time while on an errand with mom/dad.
Making these from paper based on downloadable PDFs, it’s no big deal if they get lost or damaged. Replacement is a matter of 5 minutes of printing and folding (and glueing one flap, so that you can rightfully say you ‘constructed’ these).
I have started a dedicated page for them – they won’t appear on the home page, as there will be a lot of updates – one for each boxy person, and the collection is still growing.
Click here for details and downloadable templates.
July 24th, 2012 at 8:18 am
Awesome… going to scale the figures and use them as party boxes!!
July 24th, 2012 at 8:23 am
Sounds like a cool idea – if you don’t mind, I’d be happy to see pictures of the party boxes…
July 23rd, 2012 at 8:27 pm
Great job! I’m going to print it for my kids. Is there any chance to have more than Cubicity in the same paper? So I don’t waste an A4 sheet for each Cubicity.
Thanks in advance!
July 23rd, 2012 at 9:55 pm
Thanks for the comment! Unfortunately right now I don’t have enough time to rearrange the cubicity models to fit more onto a page. I will do that eventually, but I’m afraid it will take some time until I get around to doing it.
April 17th, 2012 at 3:05 am
This is so cool, you should create more stuff like this. I was exciting to see building paper craft from you
January 20th, 2012 at 10:45 pm
Wow! Real neat. The great graphics really complement the simple form. Can’t wait to see more!