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Paper Engineering and Pop Ups: SwatchBook

Date: June 21, 2025 1-3pm


Session Leaders: Natasha Dzurny / TechnoChic


Format: Hybrid (In-person with online access)


Tags: #paper #engineering #paper engineering


Thank you for coming! Follow + Tag Natasha on Instagram with any project photos! @technochic

Session Recording Part 1 Here is the first part, maybe a counselor can add part 2!

In this session, we will make a pop-up swatchbook!

What's a pop-up swatchbook?

It's a book filled with paper engineering techniques that can be referenced every time you make a pop-up book, pop-up card, or any other feat of paper engineering.

Each page will feature a basic mechanism that we'll build together, and then we will bind them into a little book. After our swatchbooks are finished, we'll have some time to play with combining mechanisms and make pop-up cards or other paper mechanism projects.

This is a hands-on, relaxing, and fun workshop. Join us!

Please bring as many of these tools as possible:

• A pair of scissors suitable for paper cutting

• A Bone Folder, or similar utensil (the back of a pen works too!)

• A Ruler - Preferably a metal one with cork on the backside

• An Xacto knife, box cutter, or other paper-cutting blade

• A Glue Stick

• A cutting mat or cardboard to use as a spoil board

• I will provide white cardstock, but feel free to bring your own paper

New Zoom Link: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/96256520282?pwd=HCR0TN2nBV47aqoMYPKvlNcdEYQFyy.1

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