Amy Sol

These night-inspired drawings by Amy Sol are enchanting.

Doberman Studio

Doberman Studio does a lot of fashion and advertising photography out of Moscow. The series that caught my eye was this papercraft couture.

The Suburbs

Arcade Fire teamed up with Spike Jonze to create a powerful video for The Suburbs.

This video came out a month or two ago. It's a bit of a bummer so I didn't know if I wanted to post it or not. Lindsay hates things that are tense and uncomfortable, which it definitely is.

But I'm still thinking about it months after seeing it, which means it's probably worth sharing. I think I am finally understanding what it's about.

Maybe?

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year from everyone here at Paper Bicycle!

Participate & Make Patterns!

We'd love to collaborate with you and share your work with our readers.
There are two ways you can contribute.

PARTICIPATE IN OUR MONTHLY CONTESTS AND WIN STUFF!

Check the right-hand side bar every month for THIS MONTH's new contest!

Everyone is welcome to submit up to 3 patterns to be featured each month.
All submissions should be 500 x 500px and RGB and should include your full name in the filename.

We will post all submissions with your name and a link to your site / blog beneath your projects.

Please send your submissions to chris (at) paperbicycle (dot) com
along with your contact information.

One lucky artist each month will win the prize of the month.
Check the little flags along the sidebar for this month's contest topics, prize and submission due date details.
Can't wait to see what you come up with!


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WANT AN EXTRA CHALLENGE? SUBMIT TO BE A FEATURED FRIEND!

Are you interested in making patterns with us for a week?
If you'd like to participate as a Featured Friend on our DAILY PATTERN PROJECT, send us an email with two or three examples of your pattern-making skills.

If you're chosen, we'll send you a note with specifics for your very own week and what topics are happening that week! We'll post your sweet art with the very first Daily Pattern you make - along with a mini bio and links to your site/ blog!
It'd be great to see what you come up with! We'll be doing the topics right along side you the whole week!

Are you up for the challenge?

Of course, we know a whole week of topics is crazy, but then again, we all need more reasons to make art. You're welcome to make as many as you want in that week - but must agree to make at least one. Good luck and we're excited to make patterns with you!

Please send an email to hello (at) paperbicycle (dot) com with a couple images and your contact information. We'd love to hear from you!

Steven Scott

Steve Scott, a London-based animator and illustrator, makes some really cool drawings.





Celebrate the new year in style!

Peter Callesen

Extreme papercrafting! Peter Callesen creates cut paper sculptures, leaving the structures in the the paper they came from. The extra pieces come out of the sheet too.





There are some interesting pieces where he alters the paper ground of the piece to complement the structure.

Google Japan - Fashion Show!

WOW! Now I don't ever need to leave the house ever again!
This video is adorable:




Look at these cute girls freak out!
Someone get me a projector! I want to play this game.

Better than Prince - a Flairs Music video

Anyone that is in our studio (or has visited) knows this about me :
I have had a weird electronic fetish for the past year or two and this one just popped up on my lastfm stream. Of course, since I spend most of my waking life listening to the same song on repeat until it wears out, I figured this one should be my new favorite.

I think this guy is awesome. Not sure if he's better than Prince... But I love the video and now I will annoy everyone and play this jam on repeat until someone sends me the next best thing.

Woo!

thatgamecompany's Journey

thatgamecompany makes beautiful games. It's just their thing. And their newest game, Journey, looks like it's shaping up to be something truly special.

















I don't really know when it's coming out and I don't have any idea about how it plays or what it's about. All I know are these screens and this video, and I'm already sold.

Ah, the creative process.

We got this email from one of our great friends (who would prefer to remain nameless) in which he wrote his re-interpretation of how work emails sound some days :).

Ah, technology.

"So uh, is it possible to open an jaypeg in Adobe Photoshop 2.0? That’s what I think I’m using. There’s a “2” in the title. My computer is hard to use. The arrow on the screen moves too fast and it’s hard to click on a window. I clicked this bar on my window and the screen went away, can you resave and resend me all jaypeg files in Adobe Jaypeg format? I need my internal designer (my brother) to mess up some fonts so I can request you to fix them again later. Oh wait, the window came back but I somehow managed to delete my entire hard drive, can you recreate all the jaypegs for everything all over again from scratch? I need this by 4 today, but please send it to me by 3:00 because I’ll have a bunch of corrections. My printer only prints photograph size paper, but I can only read poster size imagery. Can you please print these on a billboard?

Thanks."

Merry Christmas!

Book

There have been a few projects involving swapping a sketchbook overseas (Sketchtravel is one of the first that comes to mind), but the spreads in Book are so fantastic it's worth going to the website and flipping through the gallery.





There are also images of the exhibition in Belfast, Ireland.

The Noun Project

Edward Boatman is the guy heading the Noun Project, an online collection of free design symbols. You can pledge money, offer designs or help yourself to some over at the website. The symbols are very simple; Boatman's intention is for it to be a universally recognized library of visuals.

Heat Sensitive Wallpaper

Shi Yuan has applied heat-reactive materials to interior design. Calendars and wallpaper mostly, and since we're on a wallpaper kick, this is a pretty neat concept.

Without heat:


With the heat from the radiator:


The blossoms have three states–closed, partially open and open–depending on how warm the surface of the paper is.

ZEITGUISED

ZEITGUISED make strange and wonderful things. I'm not sure how or why, but it's great stuff.










Mind-boggling.

Helmut Smits

Helmut Smits is a clever guy. He's all about ideas and his work just makes you smile. He's so full of ideas, in fact, that there's a section of his site dedicated to rough ideas for projects that he just hasn't got around to yet (and maybe never will).

It's often not only the image itself, but also the title or description of materials that transforms what you're looking at.


Two Beams Saying HI


Without Cabinet


Football Stadium


Drum Kit


Dead Pixel in Google Earth

Seriously, check it out because there is a ton to see.

Cat vs Human - just like real life

These comics pretty much sum up most of what happens in the real lives of some of us here at Paper Bicycle. Catversushuman is an amazing webcomic by Yasmine Surovec - in which she details out what all cat lovers understand: The Beautiful World of Cat Friendship.

True to life.

Gorgeous Vintage Wallpaper : Sears 1908

I've been on a HUGE vintage art kick over the last year or so and have been amassing quite a few really awesome vintage catalogs and stashes. This particular beauty is a Sears Roebuck Co. Chicago 1908 Wall Paper Catalog.
Inside there are almost 100 gorgeous snipits of vintage wallpaper patterns, each still very bright and vibrant. Here are some pictures of some of my favorites.











I love the cabbage roses and romantic trees! It is so cool to see this stuff in person.
Vintage stuff looks like it was made with care, and the colors are amazing!

Tie Tea Cup

The Tie Tea Cup is a sleek solution to protect your tea from that little paper at the end of the tea bag string.



Ironically, I dropped a tea tag into my tea last night. Last straw before posting about this sophisticated invention.

kurzundschön

FEEDMEE Design produced this mesmerizing opener for the short-film competition kurzundschön.



Makes me sleepy.

Batman: The Animated Series

Does everybody remember this show? Or how well-designed it was? I forgot until a little bit ago, when I stumbled across this article about the title cards. These images work as stand-alone illustrations but also do a great job of heading what was often a pretty eerie episode.





With influence in noir film, 30s-40s design style and a score by Danny Elfman, the show retains entertainment quality. The stylization is really appropriate and enhances rather than cheapens the stories. A number of the stories themselves are really good, too!

It was also a relief to know it's available on Amazon.