Tag Archives: product

#143

2017-03

The 100-year-old dollhous...

The 100-year-old dollhouse

About ten years ago I joined my wife and in-laws for a trip to the attic of the old family house. This was an attic close to what you would expect from a mystery thriller: Dark, extremely dusty, barely protected against the elements, with wind and light coming in between the loosely fitting old window […]

#139

2016-10

Tageba Allowance bank

Tageba – allowance bank

Here is a deviation from my usual papercraft content: A web application I recently created. It’s an ‘allowance bank’ for kids. The idea came to me when I was on a trip with my own kids. They wanted to buy something, and I knew they had some money back at home in their piggy bank, […]

#138

Can I Have a Kitten

Here is a very nice project in which I took part. It’s a new papercraft book, beautifully illustrated by the very great Mina Braun, an incredibly talented illustrator. I was asked to do some papercraft designs for Mina’s illustrations, and was very grateful for the enjoyable collaboration.

#137

2016-02

Math monsters

Here is a brand new card game I designed, helping you (and your kids) to practice your arithmetic skills. Math monsters is easy to play but challenging, and great fun. At the moment, I am having Math Monsters professionally printed as a high quality, glossy 55-cards deck. Currently, there is a pre-order phase with a 50% […]

Time lapse ‘Making of’ video for the Fokker Dr.I model

2016-02-01

You may remember the miniature paper airplanes from the ‘airplane butterfly case’:

In case you were curious how these are made, here is a time lapse video detailing the complete process, from printing to cutting (with a Silhouette Portrait) to assembly:

#136

2016-01

Video game from kid's ske...

Cakeland – turned my kid’s drawing into an Android game

Recently my 5 year old son drew a sketch of a computer game concept he had come up with. The game would be about a cake factory, and the goal simply would be to make as many delicious cakes as possible. Here is his drawing: Well, looking at the drawing and the nicely laid out […]

#135

2016-01

Micro city

You always wanted to be the mayor of a sprawling, vibrant city? Here is your chance with this desktop city: A collection of tiny buildings and vehicles that is easy to build and looks great on even the smallest space.

Sample package for clients

2016-01-11

Last week, I shipped out a couple of sample packages to clients who are interested in commissioned projects. The samples consist of a collection of stuff I have been working on in the past months, including some toys, the vaccines book, the alphabeticals book, a customized Maneki Neko, and some promotional toys.

When I had everything collected on my desk, I was quite happy with the collection. So happy that I had to share it with you. This is what you get when you ask for a sample if you are sincerely interested in commissioned work.

Here is the dino scientist and, in the foreground, two human scientists from the Cubicity set:

The vaccines book:

Opened at the world map page:

Everything ready to get shipped:

#134

Wedding coloring book

Wedding album coloring book

Get your very own, totally customized wedding album coloring and activity book! Yes, you heard it right: You can get a 16-pages coloring and activity book filled with color-in pictures of the bride and groom, the family, and other wedding guests. Based on photos you send me, I will create detailed outlines by hand and merge them with the illustrations of the album.

Happy New Year!

2015-12-31

I wish you all a Happy New Year! May 2016 be peaceful and in a good sense “boring”, so that we can get excited for the right reasons.

Above is a little New Year’s card I made for friends and family – and which I’d now like to share with you, dear reader.

And here, just to give you an idea of the process, is the very first sketch of the idea:

You may notice that the sketch contains a bunch of happy little animals. Those turned out to be a bit too distracting and noisy, so they had to go – with a very generous exception for the bug and the butterfly.

Winter village model no. 22 – Two-story house

2015-12-20

Here is model no. 22 of the winter village advent calendar is a house with a bit of a peculiar design. Two stories, nestled into each other.

Here is the PDF. You can buy the (very affordable) whole set from my Etsy store.

Winter village model no. 14 – Tower house

2015-12-12

Here is model no. 14 of the winter village advent calendar is a little three-story tower house.

Here is the PDF. You can buy the (very affordable) whole set from my Etsy store.

Winter village model no. 11 – Gullwing roof house

2015-12-09

This is model no. 11 of the winter village advent calendar is a house with a gullwing roof. This roof type gives the house quite a unique and nice look.

Here is the PDF. You can buy the (very affordable) whole set from my Etsy store.

Winter village model no. 5 – Narrow wooden house

2015-12-03

This is model no. 5 for the winter village advent calendar: This is a very narrow, wooden house. This has probably been cramped in between two existing houses…

Here is the PDF. You can buy the (very affordable) whole set from my Etsy store.

#132

2015-11

Christmas robots advent c...

Christmas robots advent calendar

Everyone loves robots, right? The nice robots of the good old days, of course, not some shape-shifting terminator bent on the destruction of mankind. So since Christmas is drawing near, for those of you who can’t wait, here is a vintage robot advent calendar. You can buy the whole set, but there are also three […]

#128

2015-11

Winter village advent cal...

Winter village advent calendar

Want to give your kids something other than candy for an advent calendar? Why not a papercraft project. This one is for a winter village, and it contains 24 easy to make buildings. From a tiny shed to the village church, some are big, some are small, but all are cute and snowy. One reader, Mike, […]

#131

2015-11

Alphabet boxes

Here is a set of 26 box templates, one for each letter of the alphabet, available from my Etsy store. They make a nice wrapping for a personalized gift. You can use them for initials, spell a whole name or even a little message: Here is a video for a closer look: They are about […]

#119

2014-09

Butterfly case with airpl...

Butterfly case with airplanes instead of butterflies

This is a butterfly case (you know, the kind biologists and collectors create, with dead butterflies mounted on pins), but instead of dead butterflies, I used tiny paper airplanes: If you want one of these, check out my Etsy store. The eight airplanes are rather famous: The Supermarine Spitfire was a very popular British fighter plane […]