The Pocket Paper Engineer, Volume 2
Platforms and Props
$26.95 plus shipping
The Pocket Paper Engineer, Volume 2, covers four important glued pop-up structures: platforms, props, spirals and straddles. These forms are used in many of the fabulous pop-up books on the market today. As in volume one, projects can be detached from the workbook for construction, then stored in pocket pages within the book. Ten projects are included, along with lots of lively illustrations and design tips.This is a workbook for adults and children alike who want to hone their paper engineering skills! 6 x 9.5 inches, 68 pages, wire-O bound in hard cover.
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The Pocket Paper Engineer Workbook, Volume 1
Basic Pop-Up Forms
$24.95 plus shipping
The Pocket Paper Engineer, Volume 1, is a lively how-to workbook that guides the reader through the process of designing and constructing basic pop-up forms. Filled with do-it-yourself models and easy-to-follow visual and verbal instructions, each form is illustrated with a playful pull-out card that can be cut and assembled, then stored in a pocket within the book. Also included are instructions for creating your own pop-ups, production tips, and discussions about paper, adhesive, and pop-up mechanics. This is a workbook for adults and children alike who are seeking some creative fun! 6 x 9.5 inches, 68 pages, wire-O bound in hard cover.
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The Pocket Paper Engineer
Extra Card Sets
$14 each includes shipping
$7 each for 6-11 card sets
$6 each for 12 or more card sets
For those who'd rather not cut the cards out of the book or need more cards for a class or additional practice, extra card sets are available. Each set includes the sixteen cards in the workbook plus two additional cards, packaged in a handy storage wallet.
The Lookout, pop-up edition of 350,
$180 plus shipping
Open this beautifully cased midnight-blue folio and you
will find a poem describing a lookout tower within an illustration of
the Italian countryside. Turn the page, and a pop-up tower magically springs
up, lighting as the page is turned. In the dark, the tower glows and delicately-cut
windows and turrets are outlined by the light inside.The Lookout is an excerpt from the collector’s edition, Five Luminous Towers (A Book to be Read in the Dark. Laser-cutting allows for intricate architectural detailing in the pop-up tower. Electronics are housed behind the second page, and both bulb and batteries can be changed. Offset printed on Mohawk Superfine Ultrawhite 65 pound cover in an edition of 350. Comes with batteries. 7 by 10 3/4 inches.
Luminous Towers, the poems
$2.00 plus shipping
This wire-O bound pamphlet contains all six of the tower
poems Carol wrote in Italy, along with collaged landscape illustrations.
It is a nice companion to The Lookout edition. Offset printed on
Mohawk Superfine 65 pound cover. Bound in a four-fold paper cover of Neenah
Classic Linen Black Iris 80 pound cover, with title plate. Signed and
numbered. 5 1/4 x 10 1/4 inches.
Five
Luminous Towers,
A Book to Be Read in the Dark
Collector's Edition, $2000 made-to-order
The full collector’s edition has five illuminated pop-up
towers and six poems. Each poem floats above the page on a translucent
panel and lights in the dark. The poems are surrounded by landscape prints in indigo and silver-blue. On alternating pages, five laser-cut towers glow in
the dark above imagess of maps, charts, and architectural diagrams.This magnificant edition of 50 is hand-bound using Dan Kelm’s wire-binding technique to allow for the thickness of the enclosed pop-ups. The book is housed in an indigo-blue Japanese cloth-covered case, with electronics in the back cover. A magnetic switch turns the light on and off with the opening and closing of the book. The lightbulb and AAA batteries can be changed.
Five Luminous Towers was offset printed on Mohawk Superfine Ultrawhite 65 pound cover at the University of the Art’s Borowsky Center in Philadelphia. Signed and numbered. Comes complete with batteries. Books will be made to order, and will be delivered within 8 weeks of receipt of institutional purchase order or a $500 deposit. 7 1/2 inches by 11 inches by 1 3/4 inches.
