Ramblings Of Different Sorts: #5: Paper Engineering

So as a part of an assignment for one of my classes, my group mates and I had to come up with a children's storybook. After brainstorming for ideas for the storyline and concept for the book, we decided to use pop-ups in our book.

Yeah yeah it's so cliche for us to use pop-ups in a children's storybook but we've come across so many amazing works of art through children's storybooks. The illustrations used and the intricate details that goes into their pop-ups are what makes these children's books special.

I stumbled across some amazing videos that showcased several designs for pop-ups and it's amazing how something can look so simple to the point that we tend to overlook the amount of effort that goes into the creation of the designs and also the complexity of the execution of the pop-ups.

Johann Volkmer came up with several pop-up designs for his final year project and I was blown away at the intricateness of his designs. His creativity in coming up with what at a first glance may seem simple but is in fact a complicated form of paper engineering is simply astounding.

Repeating what I mentioned earlier, we have the tendency to overlook just how complicated some pop-ups really are and we also don't take into account how much time and effort has gone into the creation and execution of these pop-ups. The pictures below show the different dimensions and complexities of a few of Volkmer's works of art.