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| Avella, N. 2006 Paper Engineering; 3D design techniques for a 2D material. Hove. Rotovision |
The leaflet shows a technique for folding a small book out of a single large sheet of paper, which can then be folded out into a large poster - 2 different kinds of illustration can be used on the same product, such as a comic and a poster. This is great for promotional material.
A very simple technique - slotting two pieces together - can create a brilliant effect when done with translucent papers. It is also possiblyt he simplest way of making a 3 dimensional piece with paper.
Double page spreads can be folded out to two or three (or more) times their bound size, resulting in hidden portions of a larger overall illustration. The pages can be unfolded to reveal the illustration underneath. The proportions bring to mind height, or depth. If there are multiple bits to unfold, it could work somewhat like a piece of paper-mation. The first illustration is hidden completely with the first unfolding, revealing a second. Half of that illustration is hidden with the next unfolding, revealing more. A third of that illustration is hidden, and double that size revealed with another unfolding, and so on. Could be great for something flying or sinking.
The next two pictures show a kind of double-book method of binding, one book at the front, another at the back - two different stories, complimenting stories, same story from different perspectives? Could it be possible to create a wordless narrative that makes sense whether you read it forwards or backwards?
Paper can be folded into a kind of 3 dimensional 'set'. Reminds me of a book I had when I was a child, where you could fold out an entire house with characters to move about in it.
A few simple cuts and folds can make certain parts of an illustration pop out.
Simple 3D pieces and an unusual way of binding a book.
Interactivity - turning the paper pieces into 'finger puppets' with leg holes. Would be quite fun to create a range of finger puppets. Fingers don't necessarily have to be legs. There are plenty of children's books available where the parent sticks their fnger through a hole, to be a caterpillar, or a tail, or all sorts of things.
The most intriguing thing in the book - a book that when opened continues to fold back on itself until it becomes flat again. Then, what was once the spine can be opened to reveal "more than two" double page spreads. I think I have been successful in figuring out how to make this book from that description; Something along the lines of the principles of a Jacob's ladder. Obviously this would open up amazing opportunities for illustrations!
