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Pop up memories from last summer's aTi at Rutgers




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thecrayonqueen said...

These projects are beautiful. I would really like to see more and how they are constructed.

June 7, 2009 at 7:49 AM
kandylippincott said...

The whole class was exciting and the projects had alot of variety. We had lots of resource pop up books to look at and make practice "models". The heavy weight papers used in the popup architecture were painted, scratched, torn, and textured printed first. Just the joy of colors and shapes for me--no real subject or plan. We brought in old gameboards to make the bases for the giant popups. Once a particular popup type was chosen, we studied the resource book on paper architecture and tried to make patterns of each pop up part of it. Most of us used practice unpainted papers to see how they were going to move and work. Then, after making corrections in positions and shapes we made the same shapes out of the good painted papers. I temporarily attached the "feet" of the popup sections to the game board surface with tiny masking tape pieces. If the movement worked as planned when the game board was folded, I permanently attached the popup pieces using good white glue.
It seems to me that this is a set of instructions that are pretty useless unless you are physically showing a person how to do it as you talk. Hummmm, I think I feel an instructional video coming on.
Grin.

June 8, 2009 at 12:13 AM

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