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Pop-Up!: A Manual of Paper Mechanisms

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An excellent book. Done in black and white. All illustrations are hand drawn diagrams and sketches. Complete coverage of the subject in great detail. Uses the degree of angle in most folds. Good for a math. inclined user. Mark Hiner's "Paper Engineering For Pop-up Books and Cards" covers all the basics and provides models to paste in the book-better than a lot of detail. Jackson's "The Pop-up Book" gives good directions and inspirational colored photos of designs made by art students and professionals. Duncan's book is good for step-by-step instruction with numbered angles and "paste flap A to flap D etc. I would recommend Hiner's "Paper Engineering" over this book.

Excellent Book! I have a nice collection of pop up books as well as books about their construction. This book is outstanding. The drawings are clear in their explanations and descriptions--much more so than photographs would be. You can see the fronts, backs, sides, edges--whatever is pertinent to understanding the form being illustrated. One especially nice feature is the author's explanation of things to watch out for--potential stumbling blocks to creating a functioning mechanism. He begins with the basics and then demonstrates elaborations. I think his illustrating applications of the forms is inspiring and informative--he goes beyond showing how to make,for example, a pop-up box and uses examples that show what a pop-up box might be. I consider this book a "must have" for those interested in the subject.

For anyone interested in making pop-ups, this book should be on their work table.

What I especially like about it is, the many simple sketches of the pieces and how they are applied particularly in the more complex figures, where clarity is needed and often times not as well done in other books on the subject. I have bought more than one to give to friends that work in this area as well.

One of the best books on the subject.

This little book is packed full of easy to understand directions and very practical do's and don'ts that only come with experience. If you don't want to waste time making your own mistakes, this is the book for you.

This book provides instructions at a simple, easy to follow level and and progresses to a level that requires more specific tools, skills and patience. Exactly what you need if you want to become better at making pop-ups. I'm completely enjoying my copy. The only thing better would be a few pop-up examples for the fun of it!

It's easy to study Pop-up making.
It's good for beginner.
I like it.
I will study very hardly so I will be Pop-up engineer!

Goodluck Everybody~!

Like all "how-to" topics there are plenty of beginner books that teach the basics of a subject, and a scarcity of more advanced technical manuals. I was thrilled to find this book, as it is THE technical manual for pop-ups. It's a slender book that provides lots of types of folds and some generic suggestions for how to use them. The beauty is that once you learn the angles you can adapt the folds to your own creations. The angles get somewhat technical - so beware if you shy away from math. However, pop-ups are based on angles - so you've got to learn them sometime!

My only beef with this book is that the illustrations are all line drawings that look like they were mimeographed sometime in the mid 1980s. I would love to see this book re-issued with crisp computer drawn illustrations, ala Kieth Smith's bookbinding books.
I would definitely recommend this book for the more advanced paper folder. A good book to start with is Elements of Pop-Up by Carter/Diaz before getting this one.

This book is great for the beginner. It shows you some basic folds and it is good that you have a regular pop-up book there so that you have the instructions and an example.

Hands down, this is the most information packed pop-up book to date. I'm shocked to see that it's currently out-of-print and so highly priced! It's so helpful. I'm by no means an advanced pop-up maker, but do have several years experience fiddling around. Whenever I've wanted more detail on how something should be done - or to find structures not often covered elsewhere - I turn to this one. There are other how-tos that are more interactive, more lavishly illustrated (including Birmingham's newer book that is in print and also highly recommended), or more simple (Joan Irvine's books, although meant for children, have good, basic instructions). This one, though, really is the manual its title claims. The directions aren't always simple, but if you're a serious aspiring pop-up artist, you'll be glad to have this in your reference library.