Technically, I guess it’s not really a business card – but it was meant to be. The “glass” of the pinball machine has the correct dimensions of a business card and the four legs and top score panel would have folded
“Santa’s Claw” Pop-up Book Animation
I made this animated short as a student a few years back. I had to create several different paper sets in various scales for the different shots required on my storyboards. Looking back, some of the narrative is probably a little
Movable Book Conference
This is just a short post to say that I’ll be enjoying the Movable Book Society’s Conference in the lovely city of Philadelphia this weekend. I’m looking forward to visiting with some great paper people that I already know
The Curious Case of the Copulating Cars
Every once in a while you are asked to design something so crazy, you wonder if the request is a joke. So one day a few years ago I was asked if I could make a simple magazine insert to
Snowball Fight Christmas Card
I’d had the idea of a snowball fight written on a scrap of paper for a couple of years but never settled on how to make it happen as a Christmas Card. Finally this year I was inspired by
Pop-up Oven Christmas Card
I’ve been making pop-up Christmas cards since the first year my wife and I were married. This one happens to be the first one cut out by machine. It was still cut relatively slowly one-at-a-time but at least we didn’t have to
A Modern Furniture Business Card
I love the format of the business card. In paper engineering, this small scale is a bit like designing jewelry. I made this card for a very talented interior designer to help her stand out. The piece also sits on one’s desk
Punch-out punch buggy
I’ve done quite a few of these little punch-out models over the years but this one was the roundest car I’d ever tried to make. I worked from several different renderings provided by the studio of the redesigned Herbie car. It is made
Animated Birth Announcement Card
I made a cute little card with a pull tab as our son’s birth announcement. As you pull the tab, he floats down from the stork’s grasp and flips his diaper up into a parachute for a soft landing. In
“Peep Show” birdhouse Mutoscope
I was excited when I was asked to decorate a bird house for a charity art auction to benefit Habit for Humanity. Right away, I decided that I needed to take the birdhouse apart and make something else out of it.