Pop-Up!: A Manual of Paper Mechanisms

by Duncan Birmingham

A manual which explains how paper mechanics work and provides instructions for creating everything from the most elementary pop-up card to highly sophisticated fold-away paper sculptures. The basic... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1899618090
• ISBN13: 9781899618095
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Tarquin
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.8" x 9.7"

Customer Reviews

Pop-Up!: A Manual of Paper Mechanisms

This book provides instructions at a simple, easy to follow level and and progresses to a level that requires more specific tools, skills and patience. Exactly what you need if you want to become better at making pop-ups. I'm completely enjoying my copy. The only thing better would be a few pop-up examples for the fun of it!

Best of best POP-UP BOOK

It's easy to study Pop-up making. It's good for beginner. I like it. I will study very hardly so I will be Pop-up engineer! Goodluck Everybody~!

One of the best!

For anyone interested in making pop-ups, this book should be on their work table. What I especially like about it is, the many simple sketches of the pieces and how they are applied particularly in the more complex figures, where clarity is needed and often times not as well done in other books on the subject. I have bought more than one to give to friends that work in this area as well. One of the best books on the subject.

Practical Guide to Pop-Ups

This little book is packed full of easy to understand directions and very practical do's and don'ts that only come with experience. If you don't want to waste time making your own mistakes, this is the book for you.

Pop Up!: A Manual of Paper Mechanisms

Excellent Book! I have a nice collection of pop up books as well as books about their construction. This book is outstanding. The drawings are clear in their explanations and descriptions--much more so than photographs would be. You can see the fronts, backs, sides, edges--whatever is pertinent to understanding the form being illustrated. One especially nice feature is the author's explanation of things to watch out for--potential stumbling blocks to creating a functioning mechanism. He begins with the basics and then demonstrates elaborations. I think his illustrating applications of the forms is inspiring and informative--he goes beyond showing how to make,for example, a pop-up box and uses examples that show what a pop-up box might be. I consider this book a "must have" for those interested in the subject.