This simple project from Sparkfun was our inspiration and the source for our templates. 
On Friday November 17, 2017 between Noon and 2 PM students gathered make light-up, pop-up cards with Circuit Stickers, learning some basic paper folding techniques and how to construct a simple electrical circuit.
Playing with Pop-Ups by
Enter the enchanting world of pop-ups and handmade paper crafts. Join author Helen Hiebert as she guides you through materials, tools and pop-up basics including parallel folds, angle folds, combinations and variations, and layered pop-ups. Enjoy creating 20 projects to play with ranging from cards and books to buildings, graphic design pieces, and more, plus access to downloadable templates. Featuring a high-end gallery of artists, whose beautiful work will inspire you to make your own amazing paper art, Playing with Pop-Ups will teach you to create interactive pieces that everyone will enjoy.
Cut and Fold Paper Textures by
This book will show you inspirational ways in which paper can be used to create textured and relief surfaces. These techniques are mostly intuitive and easy to make, requiring no origami or paper engineering knowledge. There are 12 different techniques: Twisting narrow strips to make "paper string," Weaving strips, Layering, Coiling, Tearing, Bending, Incising and Lifting, Crumpling, Pleating, Cutting Pleats, Stippling, and using Translucent Surfaces. Each is beautifully illustrated with creative examples, first made in white paper and then in papers of different colors, weights, and textures. Finally, inspirational photographs show the techniques applied by designers to clothing, furniture, jewelry, and homewares, as well as artworks. These techniques could be used by professional designers, design students in disciplines from textiles to interior design, and anyone with an interest in paper craft.
Paper Engineering by
'Paper Engineering: The Pop-up Book Structures of Vojtech Kubasta, Robert Sabuda and Andrew Binder? will be on exhibit January 16 through March 12 in the Bienes Center for the Literary Arts at the Main Library, 100 S. Andrews Ave., Fort Lauderdale.The free exhibition will showcase a sampling of about 50 titles by the three artists.A native of Czechoslovakia, Vojtech Kubasta studied architecture, designed puppet theater scenery, and worked as a book illustrator. In working with children's books, he had a knack for creating complex pop-up effects folded from a single board, without elaborate gluing and assembly. Robert Sabuda is the creator of pop-up versions of classic children's books including Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, and The Night Before Christmas. He also has used paper in other unusual ways, such as simulated handmade Egyptian papyrus for his book Tutankhamen's Gift, and paper cut to resemble mosaics in Saint Valentine.Andrew Binder was a winner of the 2001 Florida Artists? Book Prize awarded by the Bienes Center and the Florida Center for the Book. He holds a master of fine arts degree from the University of Miami, and is the coordinator of applications and webmaster for Florida Atlantic University.
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