Making Pop-Up Books Professor Marianne Petit For my final project, I’d like to create a five-page “sketch” of five memories that Matilda, a character in my book-in-progress, “War Stories,” has about meeting Jack, the man who becomes her husband. I imagine these sketches as storyboards … Read More →
Category Archives: Pop-Up Books
Analyzing Paper Poetry ~ Making Pop-Up Books : Assignment Four
Making Pop-Up Books Professor Marianne Petit In 2007, Simon & Schuster published paper engineer David Pelham’s pop-up book Trail: Paper Poetry. A nature walk through an enchanted world, Trail is a marvel of paper engineering made from elegant white forms accented with silver. In one … Read More →
Deconstructing Megawords Magazine ~ Making Pop-Up Books : Assignment Three
Making Pop-Up Books Professor Marianne Petit For my third pop-up exercise, I wanted to explore the process of transforming found two-dimensional materials into three-dimensional collages. Megawords magazine recently published an interesting selection of urban images – I thought these would be perfect to adapt to … Read More →
The Architecture of Geometry ~ Making Pop-Up Books : Assignment Two
Making Pop-Up Books Professor Marianne Petit For my second pop-up exercise, I wanted to practice planning pop-up architecture, measuring the cuts, and translating images of pop-up structures I found online into pop-up plans that I could then cut out. To do this, I prototyped my … Read More →
Alphabet Song Pop-up ~ Making Pop-Up Books : Assignment One
Making Pop-Up Books Professor Marianne Petit For my first attempt at making a pop-up book, I worked with the leftover materials assembled by Robert Warner for his A, B, See: A Collage Workshop held at Poets House in 2007. This collection of materials included letterpress-style … Read More →
Making Pop-Up Books ~ Final Project ~ Pop-Up Dioramas
Making Pop-Up Books Professor Marianne Petit Concept For my final project, I intended to work digitally to create collages that would act as “sketches” for a series of After Effects animations. In the end, I discovered that I worked better with physical materials and created … Read More →