This great book book!

Pictures and useful information from: Avella, N. (2003) Paper Engineering: 3D design techniques for a 2D material. Sussex: RotoVision

Design: Roundel

Client: Zanders

Project: Lanagraphic catalogue

This design (two books attached by the same cover) is called a dos-à-dos, (French for 'back-to-back'). This technique was used to bind together related books such as the old and new testaments of the bible and Homer's The Illiad and The Odyssey. After reading the first book you turn the whole thing over and start again from the back, which is the front of the second book. 

this could be a really cool way to do chapters, to have a different writing sample in each zig or zag. The difference would be that I'd want to have more than two books joint together so you read all the zig books and when you finish those you flip over the the zag books. (19)

Design: Yorgo Tloupas

Client: Eurostar

Project: Promotional packaging

This was designed to advertise the Eurostar overnight to Parisian youths and contains cd and info about clubs, eats, etc. (69) Very, very cool!

Design: Yorgo Tloupas

Client: Intersection (car magazine)

Project: Business cards

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Ron van der Meer

makes pop-up books for adults! This is very cool, however, from the pictures in this book at least they don't really look like books I would be interested in reading: crashes, disasters, architecture........ though I really can't  say no to a pop up book and maybe I should be reading about those things... who knows. These are some very expensive, very popular books. There is one on sailing that, according to this book, sells for around 600US$.

'"The paper we use is 16% of the strength of a sheet of metal and the same thickness," explains van der Meer. "It consists of short fibers which, when folded, give a sharp edge, and in our case allows the paper 'sculpture' to be folder about a thousand times without any splitting. For the average pop-up book we use ten-points paper. In other words 220gsm coated on two sides. The sheet size used is 28 x 40 inches. On these sheets we arrange our book. The individual pieces have to be laid out, or 'nested', next to each other on the sheets in such a way that they take into account the grain of the paper, which helps with the strength of the folds, and also the closeness to the pieces to reduce wasted space, and therefore cost."' (96)

Research shows that readers are likely to retain 75% of the information in one of van der Meer's book, compared to 20% of a normal book because it interacts on more levels, information is not gathered purely by reading.

I want this dress!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Design: Elisabeth Lecourt

Project: Map dresses

The style of the clothes is linked to the place portrayed on the map they are made with. The dresses are in childrens' sizes and deal with memories of childhood. Lecourt doesn't use patterns, and cannot sew. The dresses are not wearable.

(125)

Design: Charlie Thomas

Project: Paper clothes

The paper clothes making came about for window displays. He was then invited to take part in an exhibition at Sothebys called Out of the Closet--Clothes of the Unwearable.

And apparently paper clothes aren't so rare as he was joined by "fellow paper clothes maker Hussein Chalayan" (124).

Makes many creative books, 50 of which are made from just one sheet of paper. 

'Hutchins believe that the structure and design of a book can play just as important a part in manipulating readers through a narrative than text or illustrations. "When there are fewer, larger words on the page, the reader turns the pages more quickly than when there are smaller , densely packed words. The reader will turn the page faster if there is an unfinished sentence, than when there is a complete sentence. It makes a difference whether the reader turns one page at a time, or can view the entire text at one glance when the pages are spread out concertina fashion. With an illustration on the page the viewer looks at the surface. With a tunnel book [a book constructed from a number of planes with die-cuts through which you look] the viewer enters inside the illustration."' (135)

The tunnel book above was made out of postcards collected on a trip across the states. "reminiscent of Victoriana-style peep-shows" (135)

Hutchins' studied here.

(this pie book is Hutchins' as well.)

Design: Zuan Club

Client: Arjo Wiggins Japan

Project: Greeting cards

So cool! (is my critical judgement.)

this is simple and so cool!

Design: hat-trick

Client: Rabih Hage

Project: Identity and promotional items

Design: Ally (now Allies)

Project: Change-of-address-card