Advanced Techniques for Creating Pop-Up Books

Overview

“You have before you the most versatile and durable invention in history. Talking about mobile books is talking about the history of the book. It is often surprising to discover that this type of book has been made for centuries and that its typology at first was totally different from the one used today.”

In this video lesson Silvia Hijano Coullaut (Libracos) addresses the topic: Influences , which is part of the Domestika online course: Advanced Techniques for Creating Pop-Up Books. Learn different mechanisms to create your own three-dimensional book with multiple settings.

Partial transcription of the video

“Influences This invention before you is one of the most versatile and resilient in history: the book. This is one I had when I was little, it belonged to my mum. We often think that pop-up books are something modern, but the real reason I wanted to learn to make them was because of the old books that I discovered studying book history. This book is from 1950, but we can go back many more years. In the Middle Ages, they were already making pop-up books that were used as medical or astrological treatises, I love the "Book of Flowers" which has some helixes that explain the whole universe, and...”

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Course summary for: Advanced Techniques for Creating Pop-Up Books

• Level: Beginner
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• 20 lessons (4h 4m)
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• Category

  Craft

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  Arts & Crafts, Bookbinding, Creating with Kids, Editorial Design, Paper Craft