Big Bug Little Bug
A beautiful picture of my Big Bug Little Bug pop up by Prof. Yoshinobu Miyamoto with one of his RES paper structures in the centre. Prof. Yoshinobu Miyamoto is an architect and paper engineer based in Tokyo. Please do visit his wonderful Flickr Photostream here. Truly inspirational, I will post more of his beautiful work on my blogs Just Paper and PopUps.
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Pop Ups! A new paper pop-up book blog.
I have just started a new blog Pop Ups!
This to showcase some fabulous and imaginative Pop Up Book creations.
Many of these will be the work of children who I had the pleasure to work with on the many author visits and pop up workshops which I do all over the country.
I don’t want to limit it to that though, so I have made it possible for anyone to send in their own unique pop up designs.
All you have to do is email your photo to this address: post@popups.posterous.com
Please put a title in the subject line and write a little bit about yourself and your pop up if you like.
Lets see what you can do!
If you want to contact me about an author and illustrator visit or a pop up workshop, please email me
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A quick movie of the final pop up for One Big Fat Fish
So, to create the pop up below takes these 7sheets of A3+ 250 gsm card, the erratic co-operation of my ancient Epson 1290, a sharp scalpel blade or two and a lot of double sided tape. If you look at the earlier posts you will see the earlier and scruffier versions.
It seems to be working OK, so will, BA strike permitting, fly out to the Bologna Book Fair this weekend and I wish I was going too!
Some early prototypes for my new children’s pop up book, One Big Fat Fish.
I love experimenting with paper engineering, glad I payed attention in my geometry classes!
Stages in the making of a children’s pop up book, my latest paper engineering challenge.
It is due to be the final spread of my new book, One Big Fat Fish, for Caterpillar Books.
I’m really pleased with it so far, I like the sense of drama and certainly the pure size of the pop. I’m using a design that I first used in A Number of Dinosaurs, to be published by Sterling Children’s Books in the US in July 2010.
I developed it further in Swim Little Fish and veered off at a tangent to create the flower pop-up in Big Bug Little Bug, which you can see on one of the photos.
Now to make it fold away perfectly!
Rather pleased that this becomes…..
