Free form pop-up zine, part 6
This project feels like it's almost done. I think for a small pop-up zine like this one around 6 spreads seems like a good number, so I started thinking about the final version.
The first 2 spreads seemed a little disconnected from the rest so I decided to revise them by adding the orange wolf to them. There isn't necessarily a consistent narrative to all of these, but the character ties them closer together.
The First Spread:
The first one went from this:
to this:
Besides the mirrored sleeping wolves I incorporated some of the weird eye plants from spread 3 and simplified things, so there would be 3 V-folds instead of 4, that way it all fits in a single page, as can be seen here:
The Second Spread:
The second one went from this:
To having a cute little wolf face in the center instead of an eye 😉:
The Sixth Spread:
There is something very surprising about having a solid box pop-up out of the page, so I wanted to do something with it.
For the basic geometry, which is not very complicated, I consulted Duncan Birmingham's book Pop-up Design and Paper Mechanics.
By the way, Duncan has en excellent youTube channel called The Pop-Up Channel which I highly recommend. And this is his video tutorial about the box geometry I used.
As usual I started with a simple prototype. My goal was to fit the biggest cube I could within my pages, and I settled with a side of 1.75 inches:
I was recently playing with the Cairo Pentagonal Tiling so I tried to incorporate it into this project by cutting that pattern into the walls of the box, which is a treatment similar to the cut pattern on spread 4:
Then I used a version of the same pattern to decorate the background, and put a tiny wolf inside the box:
The compromise here was making the pattern recognizable while keeping the box structure sufficiently rigid. I'm considering a revision where the wolf becomes more visible by making bigger holes but that's going to require some more testing:
Though one fun thing about this construction is that the wolf is visible from both sides. To push top of the cube up a central "foot" is needed, and I took advantage of this part to print the wolf from both sides, here is the unfolded version:
The central part gets glued together showing both sides of the wolf.
I think the next steps are to figure out a good order for the spreads and to come up with the covers. The spreads don't have to be in the same order they were made, and perhaps I can come up with something that looks like a loose narrative by rearranging them.
Thank you so much for following along on this journey with me. I couldn't have done it without your support. Here is a bonus sketchbook spread that includes a watercolor of that Cairo Tiling I was talking about (also something weird on the right), and here is a template that let's you download your own:
Federico :)