Étapes

Featured in this months Étapes!
page 14- anyone want to translate for me :)?

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PAPERCRAFT 2

This is dropping in April. So rad.
Happy to have been featured in the first and cannot wait to see the follow up
Pics to follow!

Art as a Way of Knowing

I'll be talking about paper and folding things here next week.
San Francisco, I am excited about your weather.
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folding

prototype for new piece...final will be motorized and 4x larger

Features

gizmodo

get addicted to...

cool hunting

curated mag

fast company

Got some nice reviews / write ups from some spots online. click images for links
Thanks Gizmodo, Fast Comapny, Coolhunting, Curated, get addicted to...

Also the ghostly pieces have just about sold out (in two days!) I believe there are a handful of triangle designs still left here.

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GHOSTLY

The kind folks at Ghostly have released my new series- pick it up here
a short interview here
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EDIT: Just found out the pieces have sold out. awesome.

Turned Pages in Chicago

I have some work in this show (opens tomorrow)- If you are in Chicago check it out.
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Eight Emperors series...

Available for purchase soon....

Ghostly

You're probably going to want to head over to Ghostly and get one of these shirts I designed for them. They are so so soft.
Big Ghostly things are happening next month. Can't wait to post some images.

Papier Machete

I'm featured in a show called Papier Machete show in Richmond at the Gallery 5.
Opened Jan 7th.... info here.

my love for you is like a truck

27 (test)

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We are building this ship as we sail it

Title from Kay Ryan's poem We are building the ship as we sail it

my god I love Kay Ryan.

Papercuts Video from the Michigan Daily

Paper Cuts from Michigan Daily on Vimeo.

Thanks to Sam and Marissa

me and Maxine series

Huge thanks to Gretchen for framing, Melissa for photography and Maxine for everything else.

black Jesus and the orange juice fiasco

5 minute talk I gave at Ignite Ann Arbor:

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paper tile pattern 9 in x 9 in

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51 designs later. . .
I need a term for this type of construction.

Someday all this will be dirt

4 days in August & Verona

click to see large

i never sleep

sleep is the cousin of death

TEDx video now online!

I'm very funny.

Matt Shlian - “Implications of Paper Folding” from TedEx 6 on Vimeo.

Matt Shlian turns 30!

Tomorrow I turn thirty and I'm having a $30 virtual yard sale on my
site. Tons of prints, drawings etc and all the proceeds are benefiting
the Crohn's / Colitis Foundation of America. Please help me spread the word!
I need to clean out my studio before I move to my new space - The Dharma Initiative...

edit:
sold 12 drawings in the first hour. One drawing sold 6 times....I'm teaching this week and will do my best to update the site with which work has sold.
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edit 2: site online for less than a day and nearly half the work has sold! this is amazing. best birthday ever.

edit 3: it's 9pm and we've raised over $1200. I'm crying right now.

edit 4:SALE IS OVER--- in a week we raised $1453!!

Thank you SO MUCH to everyone who bought some work!!
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Siggraph 2010

Come on over to Siggraph in LA this year (July 25- 29th) stop by the STUDIO!
I'll be there with an all-star team showing people how to make inflatable sculpture.
RAD!
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I'M AN UNCLE!!

WHATS UP REBECCA EVELYN??!!?
this is how i feel right now


I cannot wait to be crazy uncle matt who folds things.