Paper Playground: Create a Papercut Picturebook
Creating a Dummy: Pop-up Accordion 1
A course by Karishma Chugani , Artist, Illustrator, and Educator
Joined August 2011
About the video: Creating a Dummy: Pop-up Accordion 1
Overview
“We will now move on to one of my favorite folds: the accordion! In this lesson, I will make my second dummy, a pop-up accordion miniature book.”
In this video lesson Karishma Chugani addresses the topic: Creating a Dummy: Pop-up Accordion 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Paper Playground: Create a Papercut Picturebook. Create a paper universe full of possibilities using visual ideas from your sketchbook and paper cutting techniques to bring them to life.
Partial transcription of the video
“Creating a Dummy: Pop-up Accordion In this lesson, I will show you how to make one of my favourite folds, the accordion. I will follow on to make my second dummy, in this case, a pop-up accordion book. My format is inspired by the book "Liberté", by Paul Eluard, in the version that I showed you in the first lesson of this unit. It's an escalated accordion full of paper cutting. Before I begin to work on it, I'm going to show you how to make an accordion fold. While making any kind of dummy, I like using, as a reference, the A4 size. This is to avoid having to measure things out. We start by...”
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Course summary for: Paper Playground: Create a Papercut Picturebook
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Category
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Areas
Arts & Crafts, DIY, Narrative, Paper Craft, Storytelling, Traditional illustration

Karishma Chugani
A course by Karishma Chugani
Karishma Chugani is an artist, designer, writer, and illustrator from Morocco. She has a degree in Fashion Design with Printing from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London, and a Masters in Fine Arts from Goldsmiths University in Design Futures.
Karishma has worked as a fashion designer, published several books, and participated in collective and solo exhibitions internationally. She also teaches creative workshops to children, teachers, and illustrators at her mobile school L’École de Papier, as well as institutions like Institut Français Madrid & Casablanca, Casablanca American School, Colegio Santa Isabel Madrid, and Libreria Gil in Santander. Her clients include Jerraflore, Le Chocolat des Francais, Marketing Magazine France, Jamini Paris, and the toy shop Wonderland.
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