Overview
Open a greeting card and watch an entire world spring to life! Discover the fascinating art and engineering behind pop-up cards as you learn to design moving, folding, and interactive paper creations. This course blends creativity with problem-solving while introducing students to the mechanics that make paper move. You will learn - Basic paper engineering - Mountain and valley folds - V-folds and box mechanisms - Floating elements - Layering techniques - Decorative finishing methods You will create - Pop-up journal of mechanical folds and reference guides for paper engineering - Custom-designed pop-up card
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