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The Pocket Paper Engineer, Volume I: Basic Forms: How to Make Pop-Ups Step-by-Step | 
 enlarge | Author: Carol Barton
Publisher: Popular Kinetics Press
Category: Book
List Price: $24.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  24 reviews
Sales Rank: 25665
Media: Spiral-bound
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 67
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 9.6 x 6.1 x 1.4
ISBN: 0962775207
Dewey Decimal Number: 745
EAN: 9780962775208
ASIN: 0962775207
Publication Date: October 1, 2005
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Product Description
Elegant and accessible, this interactive handbook teaches crafters of all ages how to create kinetic paper art. The projects are complete with examples, formulas, and the essential instruction that allows them to be constructed directly from the book with simple materials on hand: paper, scissors, and glue. Pop-ups are grouped by type—box or triangle—and as the chapters progress, the techniques are combined and layered for more dramatic effects. With its thorough explanations and inspiring ideas, this book will bring color and motion to crafters’ cards, scrapbooks, and invitations.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 19 more reviews...
Clever Book Design, and Useful too! March 10, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The perfect book for a beginner. As a bonus, the book itself has a fantastic design concept. It presents an example, then you can tear out a card with the pattern for that example, and when you finish, it has a pocket on the next page where you can store the card you just cut. Also, if you don't like cutting up your book, there is an order form for replacement cards. It's nice to see form follow function!!
 Too Simplistic for the Truly Inquisitive February 15, 2008
8 out of 10 found this review helpful
Of the several how-to books I own on creating & designing pop-ups, this book disappointed me.
The vast majority is devoted to what is basically one pop-up technique, and the author gives numerous variations on that one type of pop-up as if each were entirely different. Yes, this book is simple & easy to use... great for those who want to play a bit -- or people who work with kids.
For true pop-up explorers however, pop-up mechanisms such as floating layers, scenery flats, boxes, etc. are not included in this book. To really dig into the subject of pop-ups and paper engineering, look elsewhere.
 pop-up book making October 6, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
the Pocket Paper Engineer book is very informative from tools that you'll need to templates for a variety of designs. The only negative i have is that i wish it wasn't on spiral for greater ease of removal of the templates.
Pop Up Fun MUST have this BOOK! September 18, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
If you like pop ups, and want to try different ones, this book is one to have! You can also buy more to cut up instead of cutting up the ones included in the book. There is also websites that you can find (search: Tunnel Book) and you will find a link to this book!
Serious book art in a friendly package July 14, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Below is an edited version of the note I sent to the author, Carol Barton, after receiving my (first) copy of Pocket Paper Engineer:
Dear Carol,
Yesterday I received my copy of PPE and wanted to let you know how delighted I am with the book. Wow! I had ordered it as a gift but when I saw it, I immediately ordered two more -- one for myself and another as a gift for my daughter (she's a magazine publisher).
I've been making pop-ups for 25 years and have copies of most pop-up how-to books that I know of, including some long out of print. I've taught pop-up book making and even made an "award-winning" pop-up (audience favorite). We've been in touch before back in the 1990s. You sent me some slides of your work. Your book is unique in that it is itself an artist's book. Colour, dimensions, texture, images, layout -- they're all perfect. It's all I can do to restrain myself from taking out the exacto knife on the copy I've got rather than waiting for my own copy to arrive in the mail.
My immediate question is: when is volume two coming out? Will you be doing pull-tab mechanisms, too?
Best regards,
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