This comprehensive guide to pop-up design and paper mechanics is a delightful introduction to the intriguing aspects of a fascinating craft. This new and accessible approach to pop-up theory and practice distills the numerous mechanisms into a logical set of 18 underlying shapes and explains the techniques for building these shapes. The author demonstrates how sophisticated pop-up designs are constructed and shows how to form a three-dimensional reference book. Invaluable for both professional and amateur designers. Appeals to craft-hobby enthusiasts who make their own greeting cards, but is also a useful aid to teachers of art, design and technology, designers, illustrators and sculptors.

Here at last is the definitive book on how to make a pop-up. Every aspect of the creation of a pop-up, known as paper engineering, is clearly and thoroughly covered. All types of parallel folds, angle folds, wheels, and pull tabs are accurately detailed verbally and visually, flat and in dimension. Also included is a history of pop-ups and a step-by-step photographic essay on how a pop-up is made from start to finish. This guided tour is perfect for aspiring pop-up creators, paper engineers, students, and appreciators of this unique art form.

Pop-Up Design & Paper Mechanics offers a totally new, entertaining, and approachable method to pop-up theory and practice. Numerous mechanisms are distilled into a logical set of 18 underlying shapes. These shapes are all simply explained with step-by-step instructions and hundreds of vivid photographs and illustrations. Detailed information regarding techniques for building upon and layering these shapes to create your own amusing pop-up art is also included.

Summary: Miyuki Yoshida, paper construction designer, graduated from the Kuwasawa Design School in package design. He worked on the planning of Zonart while employed at the design firm Packaging Direction. He has worked as a freelance designer since then. He is engaged in an ongoing exploration of beautiful structures that exploit the qualities of paper.

Offers instructions for creating pop-up and novelty cards with a variety of movable mechanisms and features over one hundred pop-up techniques and projects illustrated by more than one thousand color photographs.