A word from the author! David A. Carter was born in 1957 in Salt Lake in the United States. After studying art and have made a career in design and advertising, he will have the opportunity to meet artists such as David Pelham and Jan Pienkowski and learn the art of paper engineering and design animated books. He created his first pop-up book "How Many Bugs in a box" in 1987 and has since published more than sixty books, including the famous Pop-Up Red, blue, yellow, white, black ... What a beautiful job that paper engineer! In this book, the author explains and dissects all the mechanisms used in the pop-up. The Elements of Pop-Up French version is the reference for all designers pop-up for many years finally available! Nearly 50 animations volume to discover the construction of mechanisms and explanatory text to accompany you step by step in the realization of your own pop-up. This graphic animations test deconstructed pop-up: each mechanism is the subject of a technical description, bending angle and an angular motion animation that allows the observation mechanisms. Each is built on a component to raise to discover its construction within the page. With a history of pop-up and description of realization. Through this work, tabs, zippers, wheels, parallel folds and other systems will have no secret for you. Whether paper engineers, apprentices creators or fans of pop-up, let yourself be guided by David A. Carter in this new art form! For a long time the only way to understand the mechanisms of pop-up was to "tear" the pages of books. A fast but somewhat barbaric! With this original album, we can finally see and touch each animation, understand how it works without the cut. Educational and fun, this book will long remain a valuable tool for amateurs and professionals in pop-up!
