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Pop-up work from Pratt!
Matthew Reinhart's pop-up class at Pratt is at it again!
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| Pratt Institute in New York City is lucky enough to have Matthew Reinhart teaching it's paper engineering course. A sampling of his latest student's work includes a study of architecture where many of the students choose to work in white.
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Although several students are only in their second year at Pratt many of their design solutions are quite complex. This multi-tiered pop-up represents an ancient Aztec temple.
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One of the greatest challenges in the world of paper engineering is to make a pop-up that is so large that it doesn't seem like it would fit back into it's card. This yellow chalet certainly fits that bill!
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| Diversity and exploration in integral to the course. This student introduced the element of light through the use of stained glass. The transparent windows also allow for a greater sense of 3D because one can see into the structure.
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Asian culture takes center stage in this extraordinary complex of pogodas. A pop-up as detailed as this can take a student several weeks to develop, from rough prototype to finished piece.
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Not all the subject matter, however, is serious in Paper Engineering 101. For an assignment on fairy tales this student explored the tiny world of heroine, Thumbellina.
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| Beauty and the Beast takes a completely different perspective when created by a fashion student.
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An unwise pig makes a quick escape from a collapsing straw house in this "Three Pigs" interpretation. With a pop-up like this, the emphasis is placed on movement as opposed to 3-dimensions since the straw flies away in all directions.
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One of the most successful yet simple solutions is this beautiful spinning wheel from Rapunzel. The wheel actually spins and the entire structure is accented with gold thread.
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| If you want to learn how to make pop-ups go to Pop-ups here or check out a book on making pop-ups. |
