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

by Duncan Birmingham

Book Overview

This comprehensive guide to pop-up design and paper mechanics is a delightful introduction to the intriguing aspects of a fascinating craft. This new and accessible approach to pop-up theory and practice distills the numerous mechanisms into a logical set of 18 underlying shapes and explains the techniques for building these shapes.

The author 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. Appeals 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1784945145
• ISBN13: 9781784945145
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: GMC Publications
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.3" x 10.8"