DesignerCon 09

DesignerCon '09 (formerly "the Vinyl Toy Network Show") is coming to Pasadena CA on November 21st, and it's going to be awesome. Please be sure to stop by my booth and say hello, and enter for a chance to win a limited edition laser etched "Wack" skate deck. I will be featuring my new Iphone app, Wack in the Box, with new Wack resin toys, skate decks and more fun stuff. Hope to see you there.

crazy pumpkin candy dish “halloween special”

I made this Halloween version of the Super Cooper Candy Scooper to be used as a little table top candy holder. It's available for download here. Happy Halloween guys!

Featured in the new book "Papercraft"

I am very proud to have been included in this amazing book of paper craft. If you enjoy art or paper craft of any kind, which I know you do because you are on my blog, then I highly recommend this book. It is loaded with so much good stuff.

Papercraft is an extensive survey on the insatiable trend of innovative art and design work crafted from paper. It explores the astounding possibilities of paper and gathers the most extraordinary creations – from small objects and figures to large-scale art installations and urban interventions as well as three-dimensional graphic sculptures from a vast spectrum of artistic disciplines ranging from character design, urban art, fine art, graphic design, illustration, fashion, animation and film. The book also includes a DVD with fun DIY printable templates for creating your own paper characters and toys as well as a curated selection of the best stop-motion animations.

Iphone sketch

A little sketch I made on my Iphone using the

Sketchbook Pro app and my new Pogo stylus.

Sticker Kit OBEY x PEEL Poster

Dave and Holly Combs created the awesome Peel magazine. They have recently lost their home and are in need of some help getting back on their feet. Shepard Fairey has created this very cool sticker kit poster with the proceeds going to help the Combs family. Check it out and get one of these cool limited designs today, while you still can, and help the Combs family in the process.

Fab Fibe Show

I will have a custom Boxy Bat, by Nana at Roomism, at Sculpture Square in Singapore on December 18-20. Unfortunately I won't be there to enjoy the show. But maybe you will be. :)

For more info, or to create your own custom for the show, > click here <

Sneak Peek New Wack Toy

Here is a sneak peek of the new Wack toy, being sculpted and produced by Julie B of Pretty in Plastic. For more Wack goodness, check out WackApps.com.

Paper Totem Custom

Dolly Oblong has a wonderful paper toy series called Paper Totems, and I am one of the artists who have contributed to the series with my custom skin, featuring my Wack & Blite characters. You can download the template on her lovely site. Thanks Dolly!

Riot Cop - a.k.a. Judge Mental

After many requests, my Riot Cop is now available for download from castleforte.com. Enjoy!

New Wack paper toy

Get the new Wack paper toy from WackApps.com. And be sure to enter the photo contest to win a laser etched Wack skate deck and other cool prizes.

1st prize - Limited Laser Etched Wack Skate Deck

Be sure to visit WackApps.com to get your free Wack paper toy so you can enter the contest to win this sick limited edition laser etched Wack skate deck.

Laser etching by Laser Tag Cartel

Super Cooper Candy Scooper Available Now!

I made this for my little buddy Cooper's birthday party. It is now available for download in the Template Depot Group at NicePaperToys.com. Go get yours now!

Wack in the Box Iphone app, coming soon!!!

Wack is soon to be in his very own Iphone app, called Wack in the Box.

Check out WackApps.com for more info, free Wack paper toy, contests with great prizes and more!

NEW Castleforte site now online

Please visit my new castleforte.com site for loads of new work 

and other fun stuff.

Urban Paper show wrap up

The show was a huge success! Truly wonderful, with so many great people who were all just blown away by the sheer awesomeness of the many fantastic paper toy creations on display. 

Thank you to all who came and added to the incredible energy that made it so much fun. And thanks to Matt Hawkins for putting together such a cool book, and for putting together the show. And thanks to all of the artists who contributed to the show, to Wonhee, Jessica & Stella at Mobius, Rich Kim for spinning some amazing tunes, to Scott Schaller and his class, 

to Meg and Judy, and to Spanky Stokes and Muana of spankystokes.com.

And thanks to anyone I missed, and to everyone of you who support the paper toy movement and who have helped also make NicePapertoys.com such a huge success as well. We hit 1000 members on the same day as the show! Sweet!

Tons of pics added here.

And more pics added here. 

And if you are on FaceBook, there is lot's more stuff here.

And check out SpaknyStokes.com to see some more info, pics and videos from the show.

Viva La Paper!

~Brian

The Resin Collective show pics!

Check out the pics from the Resin Collective Show at Red Hot Robot!

More pics available on Flickr!

Urban Paper book launch show

I will be in a group papertoy show for the release of Matt Hawkins' new book, Urban Paper (see the post below for more on that). The show will be at Mobius Gallery on Saturday, May 2nd at 7 p.m. It's sure to be a good time, so if you are in the area, stop on by. Hope to see you there.

Urban Paper book is out now!

Rock'n Matt Hawkins' papertoy book, "Urban Paper" is available now!

It features 25 of us papertoy artists and one each of our custom papertoy templates,

that you can cut out and build. We will be having a book release/group papertoy show

at Mobius in Los Angeles, on Saturday, May 2nd. Come on by, it should be fun.

You can get the book right now on Amazon.com! Enjoy!

Papertoy & Pop-Out Show!

I am proud to be a part of this wonderful, up coming group show,

on April 18th at Pink Hobo - Geek Art Gallery in Minneapolis!

If you are anywhere near, be sure to pop on in, it's sure to be a good time.

Check out Marko Zubak's new pdf magazine called II Love. You can get it at yebomaycu.com. In the first issue, you can read about yours truly, Marshall Alexander, and 3 Eyed Bear, check out projects from Matt Hawkins and Harlancore, get free exclusive papertoys and more! Congratulations Marko. Best of luck with your new mag! Enjoy!

Been taking a break!

To those of you who visit my blog on occasion, I must apologize for my very limited updates as of late. I have been taking a much needed break, while at the same time keeping extremely busy with other things. I will be popping in from time to time to mention anything worth mentioning. At least until I am finished with my current, top secret projects, at which time I will return with more creative goodness, madness, or crap. Whatever. I hope you will still be around to see whatever that may be. :)

The Resin Collective Show

If you are in Phoenix in April, be sure to check out the Resin Collective show at Red Hot Robot.

One of my Wack & Blite resins will be in the show, as well as quite a few others from my wonderful sculpter, Julie B at Pretty In Plastic, as well as many more resins by others.

It's sure to be a red hot show!

VTN Exclusive NEON WACK Revealed

Introducing the special, limited edition, Tribalnots colorway, The Neon Wack Pack!

These are very limited, VTN (Vinyl Toy Network) show exclusive, hand painted, resin sculpts, of my Tribalnot characters, known as Wack & Blite.

These neon colored beauties, sculpted and painted by Julie B of Pretty In Plastic, are limited to a series of only 6 figures. Each one stands about 11 inches tall with the arms up. Each comes on it's own base, in a special, handmade package. It also comes with a very limited, 9.5x13" archival print, which are limited to only 10. Each print and figure is signed and numbered.

There are only 4 left, and they are available now, at the NiceBunny Shop.
Better hurry if you want one.

Check out some more pics from the VTN show, HERE!

Limited Wack & Blite Toys @ VTN

Be sure to visit NiceBunny and Pretty In Plastic next weekend at the Vinyl Toy Network Show, for Limited Wack & Blite toys in a special secret series colorway. We'll have six for sale, and they come with a print and special packaging, too. Price TBD.

So remember, that's VTN, Dec. 6-7 at the Pasadena Convention Center.

(This is not the special colorway pictured below)

Urban Paper The Movie

URBAN PAPER - is the upcoming book of papertoys and the artists who make them, put together by Matt Hawkins and being released by HOW Publications. This is a video from the dvd that will be included with the book, which is tentatively scheduled for an April 2009-release. Enjoy!



Urban Paper the Movie from Studio N8 on Vimeo.