Advanced Techniques for Creating Pop-Up Books

Overview

“This is a very important process. It is not the same to do individual engineering than to make everything work together. Depending on the paper you have used, the weight of your ink and even the difference in temperature, your book and mine are not going to be exactly the same. However, the important thing is that, in addition to giving you my measurement reference, I am going to teach you how to calculate the size of your covers so that with clear guidelines you will be able to create yours regardless of your content.”

In this video lesson Silvia Hijano Coullaut (Libracos) addresses the topic: Simple binding, 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

“Simple binding Now it's time for a very important lesson: binding. Depending on the type of paper, the humidity and many other factors, binding might not work. In the next lesson, we'll see how to bind a pop-up book but I want you to know how to bind normally in case you don't want it to be pop-up or want it to be another type of book. What's different about pop-up books is the joint. Joint is one of the words I repeat most during the day. It's this gap between the covers and the spine. Normal books only need around five millimeters, but pop-up books have one centimeter upwards. Fold-out bo...”

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

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

  Craft

• Areas

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