And just in time for Xmas! What could be better than a bunch of FREE NaniBirds to give away? 40 in fact(!), all amazing designs sent in from all across the globe. There are a lot of great skins and custom designs in Batch Four. Too many for a single page, so remember to click the little “next page” button at the bottom of each page to see the rest. Go to nanibird.com see all the designs.

Hi all, it’s been TOO long between batches… and the world needs more NaniBird papertoys! I really want to get Batch Four released into the world. Some folks submitted designs MONTHS ago and I just never got it together enough to do a Batch release. So I need your help!…
Right now I have 25 amazing, gorgeous designs ready for release but I would really like to get that number up to 35. So if you ever wanted to try your hand at designing a papertoy or know someone who you think might want to give it a go, please visit nanibird.com for details.

August 31st is the deadline.

OK, so I really hope to hear from everyone and I look forward to seeing what you all come up with!
Josh

PS. But because I can also be a bit of a jerk I might not use everything that gets sent in… sorry and thanks for understanding.

The excellent illustration site spot the tiger is having a show and I’m in it! Yay! It’s opening July 5th at the Dreamspace Gallery in London, please check it out if you can!

And it’s full of Glueless NaniBirds! Glueless NaniBirds are exactly what they sound like… you just pop ‘em out, fold ‘em and stick ‘em together. My first release is a re-working of four of my original NaniBirds in a limited edition release of only 250 of each design. Depending on how it goes, I’m hoping to invite other artists to participate. They are professionally printed and die-cut; and for the first time I’m offering them for sale through the  NaniBird shop. Collect all four!

Every week a new poll question is posted on the UK based Spot The Tiger site. This week the question is “Should there be an immigration cap on entry to the UK?” It was a nice opportunity to work outside my usual style.

Woot! A couple of iPhone wallpaper images of mine were just posted at poogla.com. Go get ‘em for free! And while you’re there be sure to check out all the other amazing works available for FREE download. Xmas comes a little early this year…

Presenting Mr. Sanpo AKA Sir Sanpsalot AKA Sanpo-san AKA He Who Walks, the newest free papertoy from Josh McKible.
He originally made his debut at the Tokyo Urban Paper show, but it’s just taken me a while to post him. It’s a double-sided design with posable arms so I think it will also lend itself well to customizing. You can download the full version here and the blank template, ready for custom work here. If you DO customize him, please let me know as I’d love to post the results on my site!

Originally done for the Tokyo Urban Paper Show, “World’s Best Dad” is an expansion on my “NaniDad and the Peeps” set which is still available on my Etsy site.

I’ve been meaning to post this ever since the show closed back in September, but this is the first chance I’ve had to get it together. I’m hoping to post something else from the show soon, a new character I created for the show. And *gasp*, it’s NOT a NaniBird…. who knows how long it will take me to get that guy up…

But in the meanwhile you can get “World’s Best Dad” right here.

Here’s a recent piece I did for Fast Company magazine about a new kind of thermostat that is controlled by breath alone.

It’s a poster, it’s a papertoy, it’s both!

Here’s my poster for the Urban Paper show that I’m organizing in Tokyo. It will be at Café Pause in Ikebukuro and will run from Sept. 7th to the 20th. Since not everyone who was in the book will be in the show, I didn’t want to use the photo collage from previous shows that included all the designs. I  also wanted to come up with something that more generically addressed the idea of papertoys and could actually BE a papertoy as well, but one that could also work as a flat image. So the poster is also the “official” mascot of the Tokyo show.

To get your own mascot for free, click here.

Hey all, please check out my new imagekind shop! You can pick up all sorts of prints and postcards, including “Open”, shown above.

I was psyched to receive this in the mail last week. It had been almost a year(?) since the publisher, Korero Books, contacted me about including an illustration I had done for a flyer promoting the burlesque musical act of a couple of friends, Cherry Typhoon and Satoko. Satako belts out the tunes and commands the organ (as well as a variety of drums, whistles, etc), while Cherry mesmerizes the crowd with her ample figure and outsized stage persona. They blend aspects of both Japanese and burlesque performance traditions with humor and sexuality. It’s like some crazy Tom Waits meets Kabuki!

Besides showing an amazing array of contemporary work being done, the book is also a great resource of historical posters, highlighting some real gems of the past. The book is full of amazing, sometimes outrageous imagery, and I’m really glad to have been included.

A few months ago I was contacted by what I had thought was an online only Korean design magazine called “w.e.b.” (you can see from whence my confusion sprang), asking me if I’d like to submit some images and do an interview with them. Sure, why not….

Well, I got a very pleasant surprise the other day, when a fat, glossy magazine showed up in the mail with my interview in it. Normally I would be a bit freaked out to see my illustrations cut up and reused like this, but I’m really pretty pleased with the way it turned out!

Presenting MonkeyButts, a custom job I did for Dolly’ Oblong’s brilliant Paper Totem! series. When I can (ie: have the time…deadlines, deadlines), I love collaborating on other artist’s templates and Dolly’s design was just too good to pass up! You can download the pdf’s here and while your on Dolly’s site, check out her awesome plushies as well as her papertoys. Also, check out the recent interview she gave to the Shiny Squirrel.

In honor of the release of the Urban Paper book, Jack “Horrorwood” Hankins invited me to collaborate on a custom design for his “Calling All Cars” series. The result is these 2 exclusive designs that can be downloaded as a deluxe pdf set. Just click here to download.

To see more collaborations and special releases, be sure to hit up the Special Blends button on the left of my NaniBird site.