“Out & About” Pop-Up Design

This project chronicled some of the highlights of my semester abroad in college, while allowing me to explore the art of paper engineering to create interactive pop-up elements. After much research, mock-ups, and several bottles of glue, I created this final, hand-bound book that contains 8 fulls interactive pop-up spreads, with a variety of mechanical elements throughout.

Once my 'white book' mock-ups were finished, I dismantled them, scanned in the final shapes of all the elements, and digitally illustrated each piece. I drew inspiration for the spreads and art styles from the sketchbook/journal that I kept while traveling, and then made friends with Dan the print technician in my university library, who helped me print out all of my final full-size spreads on extra large, off-the-books photo paper in the print shop. (Thanks Dan! Forever grateful!!)

After hand-cutting everything back out and re-assembling the fully colored pop-ups, I spent one long, very anxious night binding them all together and trying not to ruin the whole thing on the very last step. It was close, but in the end I pulled it together.

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