45+ Free Designer Paper Toys
July 2nd, 2007 by Jerome Dahdah
You can never be too old for paper toys, especially when they are of the stylish designer type. I’ve scoured the web to find you some of the best free designer paper toys out there. Simply print ’em, cut ’em out, fold ’em and glue ’em together and you’ve got yourself some extremely cool little friends.
I’ve done my best to find only original paper toys… that is, these designs are original by their designers and not recreations of known characters.
Have fun with these and feel free to share photos of your completed paper toys with us!
22 Readymechs by Fwis. *Editors’ Choice*
Wide variety of high quality designs here; some are lovingly detailed, some have that cool flat vector look. Guess how we spent our Friday lunch break. :)
Glooman can be customized before you download her/him. Prefer a different hair cut? How about a different shirt? Just try on a different one.
The Nice Bunny Paper Toys. 5 badass (but nice) bunnies by Brian Castleforte.
Ghettopaper. 57 little paper ghettoblasters by different designers.
LouLou’s Paper Toys. Get this robot and 3 other free wacky paper toys by LouLou.
(Photo thanks to Warm ‘n Fuzzy)
Toypaper *Editors’ Choice*
“Paper toys for girls and boys”. Love monsters, sneakers, prototanks, a few free blank templates and even a little DJ set. Lots of great stuff here.
Beautiful papertoy by eloole, created for the book sushi 9 by the ADC.
The ADC also provides you with a free blank template (PDF).
Speakerdog Paper Toys. Lots of cool speakerdogs by lots of designers.
Matt Hawkins’ Custom Paper Toys. 6 of them, with a new free paper toy every month.
Flickr Monkey’s Paper Toys. These adorable critters are available in different colors.
Nana Papertoy by Marshall Alexander (Flash site, direct PDF download here.)
Nana comes with a detachable helmet!
Gimme more, more, more!
What, even more? Alright then, check out these fine paper toy blogs that will keep you updated regularly on the latest and greatest designer paper toys.
Paper Forest. *Editors’ Choice*
Constantly updated with free paper toys and impressive automata mechanisms (auto… what you say? Looky here).
Papercraft World
“A collection of the world’s finest Papercraft and Paper Models”
PaperKraft.net
“The world of paper at your fingertips”
Got some more?
If you have more designer paper toys you’d like to share, please feel free to drop your links in the comments! Also, please consider digging this if you enjoyed it. Thanks!
parasight.de
July 2nd, 2007 at 5:24 pm
I tried to make my own designs of these once but it just ended up in a lot of shed tears. Great collection of links I’ll have to print them out well not all of them maybe that blue robot.
July 2nd, 2007 at 7:07 pm
This has got to be one of the coolest things I’ve seen…
=)
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July 6th, 2007 at 3:06 pm
I like it ^^
July 9th, 2007 at 5:19 pm
Haha, thanks Kayzah, that’s great. So is it safe to say that The Simpsons endorse position: absolute? ;)
And yeah Joel, they really are damn cool. I’m going to try and invest some time in making my own for download.
July 12th, 2007 at 11:38 am
Weeheee!! look at
quake papercraft!
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August 31st, 2007 at 10:59 am
I hope it is ok that I link to your wonderful page from my blog?
August 31st, 2007 at 11:12 am
Please do, thanks! :)
November 2nd, 2007 at 3:18 am
Wish there was one that showed you how to invent your own. As much as I love pre-made things its much more fun when it is all you!
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November 22nd, 2007 at 1:37 am
yo am i able to copy the paper toys and plase them onto my webside i am only creating my so i am looking for cool stuff reply to me
November 22nd, 2007 at 1:59 am
@devil: I am only linking to the paper toys, not actually hosting them. If you want to place them on your website, you will have to contact the designers and ask for their permission.
If you mean you want to reference parts of this article, you are free to do so provided you adhere to the terms of the Creative Commons license on my about page.
December 4th, 2007 at 9:28 am
Its amazing, i have never tried out these, i will be sure to give this a try . Nice post!
January 4th, 2008 at 9:33 pm
A nice list, but your are missing some of the greatest paper toy designers.
And I’m not talking about me (I’m the creator of Grumm) alone: Matt Hawkins (from custompapertoys) has put together a book with 24 designers:
Here is a quick little preview of the first half of the toys
http://www.flickr.com/photos/custompapertoys/2139881753/
Some great stuff including 8 exclusives for the book!
January 7th, 2008 at 10:47 am
Hey Matthijs, Matt Hawkins is already on the list. :) But thanks for the info on the book. I fixed your link, btw.
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January 12th, 2008 at 2:56 am
wonderful list!
http://www.thetoymaker.com has a lot of great designs too…
August 8th, 2008 at 1:04 pm
Amazing collection!!
Very nice and innovative designs. I loved them. :)
Nice post, thanks for sharing.
Bookmarked and shared with friends.
August 28th, 2008 at 11:33 pm
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October 7th, 2008 at 2:22 pm
Que maravilla estos diseños en papel!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! felicitaciones….Lucia.
December 7th, 2008 at 1:15 am
Ну так без недостатков и достоинства не так заметны :)
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April 11th, 2009 at 5:25 am
try out http://www.cubeecraft.com it has tons of these and i know the designer
June 2nd, 2009 at 10:40 pm
This is the coolest thing ever! cheers
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Wow! Those paper toys are really awesome! I want to make one of it because I love doing something that requires attention and patience in finishing it. I think those toys are for display only.
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