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My friend recently turned me on to paper dolls. I had never seen one until she sent me this link: http://shin.co.nr/. It’s a nice idea. You just design the physical layout including all of the fold and cut marks. Anyone can just print it out on a color printer and start folding and cutting. And then presto! You have a paper doll. Cheap, easy and fun. Shin Tanaka has a whole collection of amusing paper dolls. Check it out.

yugop.com is a Flash site created by Flash guru, Yugo Nakamura. His experiments in Flash are often breathtaking and somewhat reminiscent of the work done by Joshua Davis. He explores the possibilities when you combine physics, simple objects and the unpredictable to create true digital motion art.

I feel like the packaging for Japanese snacks is meant to appeal to kids, so quite naturally it appeals to my inner child. I’m almost embarrassed to admit that I love the cutesy characters that I find on the boxes of pocky and koala bear cookies. And the snacks are pretty good too…

http://www.pingmag.jp/2007/02/09/snackcharacters/

Designer Wang Yuwei has conceived many fascinating toys and exhibitions among his many amazing creations. He has also created this set of MSN icons free to download. Please visit his Web site, www.xxxlspace.com/XXXL, to view his work.

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