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New Pop-Up Paper Projects is an inspirational book for everyone who wants to learn and share the magic of pop-up paper engineering. Illustrated throughout with colour diagrams and photographs, this book guides you through basic techniques and foundation skills, offers advice on classroom planning and health and safety and shows you how to ensure that learners of all ages can develop and progress their skills.Guiding you through 90-, 180- and 360-degree engineering, this book presents step-by-step instructions and ideas for over 200 cross-curricular themes, from cityscapes to magical creatures. Aiming to challenge and inspire, Paul Johnson uses over 150 paper-engineering techniques, including:storybooks pop-ups without folds zigzag pop-ups pulleys, wheels and levers asymmetrical pop-ups intricate toy theatres diagonal pop-ups with movables. Thisbook, brimming with pop-up techniques and how to teach them, is for everyone – from the self-styled ‘visually illiterate’ to the art graduate, from parents keeping creativity alive at home to classroom teachers planning an engaging curriculum for their class of 30 plus pupils.
This book by Paul Johnson is a virtual feast of his popular pop-up workshops. With well-diagrammed illustrations and easy to follow directions, this is a complete manual for creating most of Paul Johnson's magical three-dimensional structures. From the easy to the more challenging, this book takes one from beginning to end building on previous structures to teach and direct the reader/student in the world of pop-ups. There are also innovative hinging structures such as the mortise and tenon that Paul Johnson uses that are unique to his works. This is a must-have book for the beginning or serious paper engineer to add to their library. And, if you have the chance, get to view his works via his website at http://www.bookart.co.uk/!