Pop-Up Assignment Gallery May 26, 2010
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Coinciding with Teen Liu‘s visit (link to the post of Teens’s visit ) and pop-up workshop was a class assignment to create a pop-up. Students choose their own theme/concept to work from and
(above) the day of the crit.
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they could incorporate any paper engineering technique they learned at the work shop or that they could devise. The only criteria was that the pop-up actually fold flat and it must be able to open multiple times. Below are the finishes :
(above) Pratima Mani- “What’s in Wolf’s Belly?” Prat’s pop-up is of particular note because her wolf rotates around upon the page opening.
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(above) John Garcia-King and Queen of Hearts
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(above) Deborah Mouloudji- Snails and leaf, 2 sliders
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(above left ) Brianne Bowers rotating Ferris Wheel (right) Cityscape by Josey Herrington
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(above) Biker by Lyejm Kallas-Lewis
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(above Left) Psycho by Leila Ehtesham (Right) River by Rachel Tonthat
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(above) Christine Westrich’s pop-up Chef
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(Above left) a Beast by Grace Lang (right) stuffed animal pop-up by Grace Moon
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(above left) Jun Hui Im’s mask (right) Skeleton by Ciara Gay
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(above) a larger gold fish pop-up spread accompanied by a beautifully done smaller book all my Masuko Jo
Teen Liu-Pop-Up Workshop April 4, 2010
Posted by leskanturek in 3-D work, Books, Guest Visits, Handmade, Movable Illustration, Pop-Up.Tags: Class visit, Paper Engineering, Pop-up book, Pop-Up workshop, Teen Liu
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March 22nd paper engineer, illustrator, and designer Teen Liu came into class to discuss her work, pop-up books and to conduct a paper engineering/pop-up workshop. Teen has worked with pop-up artist Robert Sabuda and Matthew Reinhart, The Museum of Modern Art, editorial pieces, and fine art life size gallery installations (24 foot high pop-ups!).
You might also have seen some of her designs and paper engineering she has worked on including Star Wars: A pop-up guide to the Galaxy (check out the LED light sabres and a very cool Darth Vader), The Tomie de Paola’s pop- book Streganona, the Chronicles of Narnia pop-up book, or the cards and ornaments she has designed for MoMA.
Teen got down to business fast, and before you knew it scissors and paper was flying.
(above left) Teen demonstrating a fold (right) Josey and Grace cutting away
Before and after
After going over some basic folds and cuts ie: a V fold mouth, and a layer pop-up we quickly got into something a bit more complicated a turtle with movable legs. Teen had given out a link to pop-up instructionals on Robert Sabuda‘s site which has a section called Simple Pop-Ups You Can Make! which has step-by step tutorials, though of course it’s not the same as having an engineer in the room trouble shooting why your turtle is dying a slow pop-up death.
(above) left Ciara , right Teen working with John on his turtle.
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After the workshop Teen spoke about various pop-up project and the process of taking a pop-up from concept to appearing in print. Planing and mocking up versions during the concepting stage it can take 6-7 or more dry runs before the construction is perfected. Then after the pop-up is test printed out , constructed again to make sure it fits.
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(above) printed die-cuts for Fairies ready to be cut out and assembled. (image from Teen’s site)
It was a great workshop and visit. Many thanks to Teen for sharing her expertise and time. When you take a look at her site make sure to check out the pop-up done for Shit Disco’s music video among the other cool things . Thanks Teen!
Pop-Up Books March 1, 2010
Posted by leskanturek in 3-D work, Books, Movable Illustration, Pop-Up.Tags: Movable Illustration, Paper Engineering, Parson's Illustration Display, Pop-Up books
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A toy, miniature theatre, automata, animation…all this resting between the covers of a book on your shelf. Pop-up books were, for most of us, our first experience treating a book as a precious object, something to stare at in amazement and share with others as illustrations break the rules of 2-D print by coming alive. Open the spread of a book and it’s the reader that makes the doors on the bus open and shut, or causes Alice’s house of cards to fall around her. Illustration in movable 3-D, viewers can look at the same scene from multiple viewpoints and interact with it.
(above) A spread from The Wonderful Wizard of OZ: A commemorative pop-up by L. Frank Baum and art by Robert Sabuda. Tucked in a pocket on the page are green sunglasses to view the emerald city (and everything else) with.
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Books with moving parts have been around since at least since the 13th century when volvelles or rotating paper circles were used in books to illustrate philosophical ideas. Later they were used to demonstrate astronomy, mathematics and other scientific theory. It would take another 200 years for moveable books to be marketed to children.
(above) A volvelle from Astronomicum Caesareum c. 1540 showing the orbital period off the moon.( from the Lib. of Congress)
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Lothar Meggendorfer, (http://www2.lib.virginia.edu/exhibits/popup/meggen.html) a 19th century German artist, created superb moveable illustrated books. Illustrations in Meggendorfer’s books performed as many as 5 or more actions simultaneously in different directions.
(above) Lothar Meggendorfer’s International circus (photographed by G. H. Mott)
Blue Ribbon Publishing in New York in the ’30s was the first publisher to use the term “pop-up” to describe their movable illustrations. Books like “Puss in Boots” from 1934, engineered by Harold Lentz, vied for the attention of an audience that was getting used to the relatively new medium of animated cartoons.
Today, hundreds of pop-up books are produced around the world each year. Each book has to be painstakingly assembled by hand.
(above) XXX pop-up book
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Contemporary paper engineers like, Robert Sabuda, (http://www.robertsabuda.com/) and Mathew Reinhart are designing more and more complicated pop-ups involving sound, and light. Pop-up books have since crossed back from being exclusively for children and now marketed in some cases exclusively to adults and museums.
In this post–modern technological age the artistry, craft and surprise of illustrations printed on paper that pop-up to life still fascinate.
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Pop up display key
- Cow and Her Friends: A Golden pop-up book
- Mommy? Story by Arthur Yorink, illustrations by Maurice Sendak, paper engineer Matthew Reinhart
- The 12 days of Christmas : A Pop-up Celebration by Robert Sabuda
- ABC3D – An alphabet book by Marion Bataille. Each of the 26 three-dimensional letters move and change.
- The Wonderful Wizard of OZ: A commemorative pop-up by L. Frank Baum and art by Robert Sabuda
- XXX pop-up book
- Little Monsters by Jan Pienkowski Publisher: Candlewick; Pop Rei edition (July 8, 2008)
- The Pop-up book of Phobia’s created and written by Gary Greenberg, Illustrated by Balvis Rubess, Pop-ups by Mathew Reinhart
- Hallo our Motorcar: Schreibers Plastical Picture-books
- TK pop-up book
- Leonardo Da Vinci: The Artist Inventor, Scientist in three-dimensional, movable pictures by A.& M. Provensen
- Uz Jsme Doma pop-up book and dvd,-Uz Jsme Doma (oosh-smeh-doe-ma, Czech for “we’re home!”) is a band from the Czech republic.The pop-up book is a collaboration between UJD lead Miroslav Wanek and the painter Martin Velisek
- Alices’ Adventure’s in Wonderland : A pop-up adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s Original Tale by Robert Sabuda
- Silly Heads by Ruth Wickings & Cathie Shuttleworth Publ. DK
- Winter’s Tale: An original pop-up Journey by Robert Sabuda
- The Pop-up Buck Rogers- 1930’s
- Little Red Riding Hood illustrated by Patricia Turner: A peepshow book
- Say Cheese – David Pelham
- Carter, David A. 600 Black Spots: A Pop-up Book for Children of All Ages New York : Little Simon, 2007
- Fungus the Bogeyman Plop-up book by Raymond Brigs
Thanks to faculty member Peter Hamlin for creating the video demonstrating the books in the showcase. Here are links to the video posted on youtube
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rawuw02klbYe spacespacespacwww.youtube.com/watch?v=0iQlOr71Hmw
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaVK1qpgq90 spacespacespacwww.youtube.com/watch?v=xvh9b74fpqc
Other Links:
the Movable Book Society
http://www.movablebooksociety.org/
Teen Lui/Paper Engineer
Pop-Ups and Movable Books: a Tour through their History
