Advanced Techniques for Creating Pop-Up Books
Mobile elements (Part 1)
A course by Silvia Hijano Coullaut , Editorial Designer
Joined September 2019
About the video: Mobile elements (Part 1)
Overview
“We are going to start making our folding geometries. It is essential to do a good elaboration of basic elements to later learn to combine them and create multiple scenarios. I want us to experiment together, and see how far we can go from basic techniques. In this lesson we will learn V and combination folds.”
In this video lesson Silvia Hijano Coullaut addresses the topic: Mobile elements (Part 1), 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
“Mobile elements (Part 1) In this lesson, we'll learn basic mechanisms so that we can combine them later and create lots of things. We'll start with V-mechanisms, they're very important: they're easy, they close really well, and they look spectacular. We'll see some examples later. On all of the templates for the book, some have graphics and others don't, the ones for the project do, you'll find colored lines. Some people do dotted lines and whole lines, I do whole ones so that, if your printer is so-so, you can always see them. The blue lines are creases, which is where we have to score, an...”
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Course summary for: Advanced Techniques for Creating Pop-Up Books
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Category
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Areas
Arts & Crafts, Bookbinding, Creating with Kids, Editorial Design, Paper Craft

Silvia Hijano Coullaut
A course by Silvia Hijano Coullaut
Libracos es una empresa de diseño y producción editorial, fundada por Silvia Hijano Coullaut, que lleva desde 2008 convirtiendo en realidad las ideas de muchos. Su trabajo es totalmente artesanal, lo que hace que el taller se convierta en una especie de puente entre pasado y presente, ya que realizan piezas con técnicas de siglos de antigüedad combinadas con las más modernas para conseguir todo tipo de acabados y volúmenes.
Han trabajado para agencias de publicidad, productoras de cine, alumnos de diseño, entre otros, además de hacer productos propios en los que vuelcan toda su creatividad.
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