Pop-Up Design and Paper Mechanics: How to Make Folding Paper Sculpture

by Duncan Birmingham

This comprehensive guide to pop-up design and paper mechanics is a delightful introduction to the fun, surprising and intriguing aspects of a fascinating craft. Duncan Birmingham's totally new and accessible approach to pop-up theory and practice distils the numerous mechanisms into a logical set of 18 underlying shapes and the techniques for building these shapes is methodically explained with step-by-step pictures and text. Pop-up is shown to be a hands-on, sculptural skill, that is not dependent on mathematical calculation, measuring and technical drawing, indeed no measuring is necessary for most of the pop-ups and only card, scissors and glue are needed to make many highly complex folding sculptures. Duncan demonstrates how sophisticated pop-up designs are constructed and shows how to form a three-dimensional reference book, invaluable for both professional and amateur designers interested in this craft. This is a book that will appeal to craft/hobby enthusiasts who make their own greeting cards, but is also a useful aid to teachers of Art, Design and Technology, designers, illustrators and sculptors.

Genres: Art, Nonfiction, Crafts

Kindle Edition

First published August 1, 2010

Reviews

[James · Rating 4 out of 5]

A decent introduction to the subject with some simple, ready to go projects included, just scan them and print onto cardstock. Each project is a standalone, if you wanted to make a popup book, this doesn't cover that.

[Julie Bowen · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book was solidly okay. It gives lots of instruction for specific projects, which indirectly illustrates various pop-up paper mechanics. More project based than theory (and wide applications) based.

[Karin Carlson · Rating 4 out of 5]

excellent. no history but great everything else

[Tony Albishi · Rating 4 out of 5]

It's a good book to learn how to make pop up and cards

[Diego DS]

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[Stephanie Arnold · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fascinating

Can’t wait to try some of these techniques, the instructions look clear and the project ideas look manageable even for me!

[Shayne · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book has the best theory on pop ups of any that I have found so far. I especially like the listing of basic folds that makes up the bulk of the book. Kudos to an author who thinks like me! :)

[Pingo Lito · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book to learn some basic folds and their behaviors when designing pop up art.

[Rishat]

This is cool book!