Advanced Techniques for Creating Pop-Up Books

Overview

“You already know how to bind in the traditional way, now we have to take another step. You are going to learn how to make a fold-out map in dimension that also works as a pop-up book. Scoring or joining the sheets well is crucial for us to be able to perform this process perfectly. You will also discover that the tapas are different. In this case, we not only have some covers and a spine, but also a flap, which will be the one that makes our book look normal, but when we open it we can discover many more secrets. Once we have it ready, we can start a cartographic reading that will invite us to lose ourselves, or not, in one of the most primitive routes of our brain: love.”

In this video lesson Silvia Hijano Coullaut (Libracos) addresses the topic: Gouging and binding in the form of a map (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

“Making the concertina guard and binding as a map We know how to bind traditionally; let's take it one step further. This is complicated because we're doing a fold-out. You have a guide in Resources because it's easy when you know how to do it, but, to start with, it's a hodgepodge. It's a fold-out map that works like a pop-up book. We'll start with the concertina guard where the pages join. You normally attach them with special binding ribbons or with pieces of paper, but us binders have done our research and tape, although it might seem tatty, is what sticks the pages together best because...”

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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