Tag Archives: moveable books

A Pop-up Bouquet for Mother’s Day

Today’s post contains instructions for making a pop-up bowl of flowers. It was designed as a Mother’s Day card, but you can also make it for yourself — my gift to you for helping me reach 500,000 views as of … Continue reading

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Friday Night Flicks: Panera Pop-up

There are two flicks this Friday. The first is an advertisement filmed using a pop-up book as the “set”, the second is a video about the making of the pop-up book used in the ad.       If you … Continue reading

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Friday Night Flicks: Hungarian Inventions

Here’s another pop-up book for August, this time from Gábor Filkor.     If you have a little more free time this weekend, you could read about Hungarian inventions here or look at another video —a stop motion animation— from … Continue reading

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Friday Night Flicks: Zahhak The Legend Of The Serpent King

This week’s flick features the pop-up book of Zahhak: The Legend Of The Serpent King. From the text on Youtube: Zahhak: The Legend of the Serpent King, created by Iranian award-winning artist and filmmaker Hamid Rahmanian and Meggendorfer Prize winning … Continue reading

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The Ubuntu Flexagon

This picture of the sunflowers for the week was taken late Friday under the counter light in the kitchen. It doesn’t quite do justice to their luminous quality.

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Star Book 2023 or Pages Don’t Have To Be Rectangular

July 7 (next Friday) will be Tanabata and also the official ninth anniversary of this blog. Every year I make a star-themed project to celebrate. This year I created a modular accordion book that can be linked in a circle … Continue reading

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How to Make a Volvelle

Today’s post shows how to make a single disc volvelle in a square mount.

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Friday Night Flicks: Tauba Auerbach

You may have encountered the work of Tauba Auerbach before. Her Colorspace Atlas did the rounds on all the major art/design sites when it was released in 2011. (You can read more about it and see more images on this … Continue reading

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Byopia Press Advent Calendar 2022: The Index

In the hope that this will make it easier for you to find things that you remember seeing in this year’s Advent Calendar, here is an Index. Clicking on the title will take you to the post. ***** Byopia Press … Continue reading

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Byopia Press Advent Calendar 2022: Day Twenty-four and the 2023 NASA Moon Phases Calendar

I have posted about the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Moon Phases Calendar and Calculator before, but since it fits so nicely with the Circle theme of this year’s Advent Calendar, here it is again.

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