Marshall Alexander
education: Graphic Design at Shillington College. Studio Art at LaTrobe Street College. Bachelor degree in Information Technology, Hogeschool Utrecht.
debut: A free papertoy of a space monkey called NANA.
breakthrough: Foldskool Heroes, a series of papertoys based on my childhood heroes and my publication in the comic anthology Fat Chunk.
inspiration: Vintage stuff like old plastic toys, (animated) movies and videogames from the sixties/seventies/eighties. Classic designers like Saul Bass and Paul Rand. Pop-art, low-brow art, street-art and the whole designer toy movement.
publications:
Contributions to books like Urban Paper, Papercraft, Fat Chunk and Toyland. Different magazines like German gamemagazine GEE, the Korean ELLE and UK designmagazine Computer Arts Projects.
clients:
Hasbro, Workman Publishers, HOW Design, ImageZoo, HorrorMerch, Mobile Agency.
specialism: Design of papertoys of which the template consists of one piece of paper and also fits on a single piece of lettersized paper.
exhibitions:
Pink Hobo Gallery, Minneapolis (2009); Urban Paper Release Party - Gallery Mobius, Los Angeles (2009); 2Edged Show, Thessalonik (2009); Urban Paper NL - Subwalk, Arnhem (2009), Urban Paper JAPAN, Tokyo (2009).
