Curator and custom paper toy extraordinaire Matthew Hawkins brings the traveling custom paper toy exhibit to Rivet! This show features more than 26 artists from around the world.
Group Exhibition - Opening January 2nd, 7-10pm
Featuring the art of
3EyedBear
Netherlands
3EyedBear is a project of love by Dutch comic-illustrator/designer Maarten Janssens who in 2005 rediscovered the world of paper kits. His lifelong fascination with pictures, characters and paper-material came together in what soon became his project-of-love 3EyedBear... click for full artist bio
Kenn Munk
United Kingdom
My work ranges from graphic design and illustration over type design and copywriting to product design and teaching at design schools and for advertising agencies.
I am currently Lead Tutor of Foundation graphic design at Central Saint Martins... click for full artist bio
Ben The Illustrator
United Kingdom
Ben O'Brien is a commercial illustrator/designer based in Cornwall, UK. Ben works alongside his wife, Fi, who manages their Wish You Were Here brand, producing and selling fine art prints and homeware products... click for full artist bio
BigChief Design
Italy
BigChief Design is a Milan-based digital communication and graphic design company founded by passioned and inspired people with diverse background and expertise from marketing to design and visual communication to technology. We work in graphic design and illustrations, digital and interactive media... click for full artist bio
Shin Tanaka
Japan
Shin Tanaka is a paper toy creator, graffiti writer, and designer from Fukuoka, Japan. He first started creating his iconic paper creations while he was still a college student, crafting paper models of all the sneakers he couldn't afford to buy... click for full artist bio
Atelier Alessio Blanco
Italy
Atelier Alessio Blanco is the collective identity composed by various artists, architects and designers. click for full artist bio
Carlo Giovani
Brazil
I like to work with different medias and technics, mixing them to create new ways to represent ideas and concepts.
... click for full artist bio
Horrorwood is the artistic persona of Jack Hankins. Jack is a British artist who expatriated to Japan in 2006... click for full artist bio
Sjors Trimbach
Netherlands
Sjors Trimbach (Weert, the Netherlands, 1974) has been drawing ever since he could hold a pencil. He's not sure if he's improved much... click for full artist bio
Christopher Bonnette
Los Angeles, CA
Christopher Bonnette was born and raised in Los Angeles. He attended and majored in Illustration at Otis College of Art and Design... click for full artist bio
Josh McKible aka mckibillo is an illustrator and graphic designer residing in Japan. After an 8 year run of doing art direction for various magazines around NYC, he has returned to his first love of drawing... click for full artist bio
mck
Netherlands
I am Matthijs C. Kamstra [mck] and Im a designer/ animator / programmer / and-some-other-stuff... click for full artist bio
LouLou & Tummie is a Dutch illustration duo who spend their days building an ever expanding empire of colourful graphics and characters. Lead by their crave for toys, happiness and all things cute or robot-like they abuse their computers to spit out designs that can be found in magazines, books, advertisements, plush, papertoys, on walls and interiours, t-shirts and shoes around the galaxy... click for full artist bio
Bryan Rollins
Memphis, TN
Graphic designer, illustrator, motionographer, student living in Jackson/Memphis, TN. click for full artist bio
Marshall Alexander
Arnhem, Netherlands
My name is Marshall Alexander. I am a Dutch paper engineer, based in Arnhem, and my work mainly focuses on the creation of papertoys... click for full artist bio
Dolly Oblong
Netherlands
Welcome to the world of Dolly Oblong! I love making plushies and toys of wool, felt & paper. ... click for full artist bio
Jason Edward Harlan began his run back in October of 1972, at a time when computers were still some kind of crazy science fiction madness. He now enjoys pixels, paper, hit points, and tremelos... click for full artist bio
Cubotoy
Chile
Desde que era niño siempre me gustó dibujar e imaginar figuras nuevas. Me gustaba estar constantemente rayando no solo papel, también superficies como las paredes de mi hogar; con lo que mi madre sufrio más de alguna vez... click for full artist bio