A little bit about myself

My name is Marshall Alexander. I am a Dutch paper engineer, based in Arnhem, and my work mainly focuses on the creation of papertoys. I either create completely new characters from scratch or I transform existing characters into papermodels. My speciality is one-piece papertoys, models that consist of a single flat piece of paper, which by intricate folding is transformed into a 3-dimensional model. I also create more complex templates consisting of several parts that are glued together to construct the final model. I've have done commissioned work for the toy industry, for promotional purposes and for books and magazines. Growing up in the seventies and eighties, my personal work is heavily inspired by retro design, videogames, movies, bright plastic toys and TV cartoons. Most of this work can be downloaded for free. So get your knives and glue out, download some of the models and start building. Enjoy!


Contributions to the following books and magazines

Papertoy Monsters (Workman Publishers), We are paper (Collins Design), Papercraft (Gestalten Verlag), Urban Paper (How Books), Toyland (Monsa), Fat Chunk volume 1 and 2 (Slave Labor Graphics), Computer Arts Magazine, Gee Magazine, Elle Girl (Korea), Loop Magazine.


Exhibitions

Rodrigo Del Papel custom show (Paris), ye-Bot custom show (Zagreb), Urban Paper Shows (Los Angeles - Arnhem NL - Tokyo - Kansas), Papertoy and Pop Out Show (Minneapolis), Cubeecraft custom at Too Art For TV (New York)


All models © 2007 - 2010 by Marshall Alexander. All rights reserved.

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Contact me

marshallalexander@maweb.nl


I've worked for

Beyond Illusions
Comic House
Hasbro
HorrorMerch
HOW Design
ImageZoo
Mobile Agency
Pepakura.net
Workman Publishers

for commercial jobs
please contact my agent:


KvK nr: 09202637