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Wine Branding – Finished Wines

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To resolve the issues surrounding using a glass bottle for this design, Ive re-made the bottle out of aluminium. Here’s the first design, but I decided it was too dark and boring. Here are my final 3 wines. I decided to make the labels textured with things related to punches and parts of...
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Wine Branding – Logo

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I decided on a type writer style font mixing the capitial and lower case letters. I figured that the target audience is people who don’t care about wine, and just want to get drunk so don’t really care. I took inspiration from punk work  to try and give it that “we don’t give a...
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Video Dump 04/12/12 – 09/12/12

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Video duping is something new to the A.G.papertoys website. Long story short, A.G.papertoys is returning to being a personal blog, rather than a business site. The business end of things will be hosted on a new website launching at the start of 2013. I’ve started a gaming channel on youtube so here’s a collection...
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Robot Moshpit on sale

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Robot Moshpit Shirt
That’s right, thanks to the lovely people over at Yorkshire Tee’s my new T-shirt design is now purchasable! I really loved this design, and lucky for me so did Yorkshire Tee’s. So now you can be the dance floor for these cute, drunk little robots. Pick one up, HERE....
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Light house T-shirt contest

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Greenware Shirt
I had the pleasure of designing this T-shit with the wonderful people over at Greenware Boarding for their Mark Nichols signature shirt series. The series comes out on the 25th of June 2012. Plus until Friday,you can win your very own shirt, signed by the musical magician Mark Nichols himself! All you have to...
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Alien fan art release (BBC week)

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  In an effort to drive more views to the website during the BBC week, I’m releasing a free papertoy of the Xenomorph from Alien. -Download Alien paper toy- Design :    The Alien is a one page one piece papertoy based on the  Xenomorph from the Alien movie franchise. About...
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Letter of recommendation.

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The other day I received a letter of  recommendation from none other, than Jennifer Bryan (AKA Creature Kebab). And it was so good, I figured I’d share it.  ”I have worked with Alexander on two projects now; a series of Paper Toys for Epilepsy Action and a Paper Toy publication – Alien Anarchy,...
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So now we’re doing Facebook.

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I’ve got to be honest, I didn’t really want to make a Facebook page for A.G.papertoys mainly because then it becomes a matter of trying to get “Likes” and it becomes a competition with everyone else in the world to get “Likes”.       So, after an awkward predicament...
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Fin and Gill : Sunday re-release

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So, a long week ends…the bad news is it’s a re-release, but there’s a new toy next week so that’s good. Now back to commission work…fun. -Download Fin and Gill- Design :    Two once piece toys on a single page. Back story :     Like every good swamp monster Gill...
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Calorie Cutter : Sunday re-release.

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Yea, it’s not a Friday release, but I ran out of double sided tape. Never the less here’s a re-release of Calorie Cutter. -Download Calorie Cuter- Design :     Calorie Cutter is a one piece one page toy. Back story :     After watching Edward Scissor Hands, Josh decided...
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A.G. in the Star (again)

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I got a call from my granddad today telling me my article was in the Star and to go pick up a copy. So I did, I was surprised to find it was a double page spread including a massive picture of my that makes my nose look huge, what do you mean it...
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A.G. in Active 8 magazine

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For some reason, I’ve been putting off writing about this, I’ve just not been hugely enthusiastic when it comes to blogging. I’m in the mood to vlog, but I can’t because of a few bits of missing equipment *slightly grumpy grumble*. Anyway, a while back I had a tiny tiny...
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Until Death : Friday release

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As we all know May 2nd Quarantine day , and what better way to celebrate it than with a Zombie bride and groom. -Download Until Death do us Part- Design :     Two Multiple piece toys on a single page. Back story :     The 2nd of March seemed the perfect day...
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Monster Workshop toys

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That’s right we’ve got some more Monster Workshop toys for you to get your hands on.  Although no one bothered to tell me they’d come out I happened to check the site and see that they were. Get ‘em here. CLCIKEY CLICK.  ...
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Pushy Lover : Friday release

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      So valentines day has rolled around, so I thought I should do a toy for it. Maybe you want to give someone a hand made gift, or maybe you just can’t afford a box of chocolates. Either way A.G.papertoys is here to help you celebrate the one day of the...
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Minecraft Minis on InnerSPACE

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So the wonderfull people at InnerSPACE (A Canadian T.V.show) got in contact to see if they could feature my Minecraft Minis (batches 1 and2) on their show (Like I would have ever said no). They where featured in a section called “new on the shelf” along with along with some...
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Bloggin’ ’bout life #11 : Badger with a fez

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It’s been a roller-coaster week and not just because I feel like throwing up now it’s over. Earlier in the week I gave a short talk about myself and what A.G.papertoys is up to to a small crowd of 60. Long story short, I killed they laughed when they where meant to and didn’t shout out...
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Werewolf : Friday re-release

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Originally I was going to be releasing my valintines toy this friday, but due to printer problems it’ll be released next Friday. Instead I’m re-releaseing Werewolf. A sensitive nosed Werewolf -Download Werewolf- Design : Werewolf is a one page one piece toy. Back story : After being bitten by a...
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Hockey Mask Murderer : Friday re-release

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Friday seems to keep sneaking up on me. This Fridays free downloadable toy is a remastered version of Hockey Mask Murderer. -Download Hockey Mask Murderer-   Design :     Hockey Mask Murderer is a one piece one page toy.   Back story :    Lurking in the deepest depths of blood-spill forest this psychopathy killer...
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Tetris Blocks : Friday release

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Blocks falling from the sky.
Another Friday rolls around and this Friday release is blocks that fall from the sky. 6 new Tetris blocks for your enjoyment, or you could print the set off multiple times to try and make a giant Tetris tower. The set includes 6 different shapes all on a single page and every...
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Bloggin’ ’bout life #8 : Visual music

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So I’m finally getting the hang of Photoshop, admittedly all the papertoys I’m designing at the moment are a Frankenstein’s monster mixture of  Photoshop and Powerpoint, but I’m getting there. One of my university projects at the moment is visual communication, a sub-task of this was to visually communicate a piece of music without using any lyrics. I chose “Valley Of The Mountain King” for...
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Minecraft Minis Batch 2 : Friday release

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So another Friday rolls around, and what could be better way to start the weekend other than releasing Minecraft Minis Batch 2. The follow up to batch 1 contains Herobrine, Wolf, Cow, Spider, Slime and Zombie Pigman. Now you can add to your Minecraft adventures with companions and new enemys....
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Minecraft Minis Batch 1 : Friday release

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This Friday release is the much awaited Minecraft Minis batch 1.  The official Creeper Wants A Hug paper toys. You can download, cut, fold and glue together your very own Minecraft mini adventure. With seven toys in batch one at your disposal. Batch 1 contains seven characters from the game including, pig, chicken, zombie,...
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Skelatoon re-release

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Another classic toy re-released with improvements. Download Skelatoon HERE. Design :     Skelatoon is a one page, one piece papertoy. Back story :     George Cook was a man with a horrible addiction, gambling.  Whilst on holiday to America George thought it would be a nice idea to visit the Las Vegas strip...
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Clink and Klank re-release

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Clink and Klank have been re-released and are better than ever. This is the first toy to be re-released with plans to re-release 1 toy a week (giving me time to adjust the template). Skelatoon will be release later today in preparation for the site launch. Download Clink and Klank HERE. Design...
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