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Cuckoo Clock pop-up Christmas card

Cuckoo Clock pop-up Christmas card

Here’s a fun Christmas card I made one year. I was obsessed with paper track systems for a while and this was an attempt to see how much action I could get from a single pull tab using those internal tracks.

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Pop-up Christmas Card with Lights

Pop-up Christmas Card with Lights

  Inviting people to electrocute me seems like great holiday fun for everyone, right? This was our Christmas card for 2013. I had to cobble together 100 of these flat led modules from a pile of  scavenged electronic parts. That process

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Pinball Machine Pop-up Business Card

Pinball Machine Pop-up Business Card

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

reddogrob September 26, 2014September 30, 2015 Paper Engineering 4 Comments Read more

“Santa’s Claw” Pop-up Book Animation

“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

reddogrob September 23, 2014 Animation, Paper Engineering No Comments Read more

Movable Book Conference

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

reddogrob September 19, 2014 Paper Engineering No Comments Read more

The Curious Case of the Copulating Cars

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

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Snowball Fight Christmas Card

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

reddogrob September 15, 2014 Paper Engineering 1 Comment Read more

Pop-up Oven Christmas Card

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

reddogrob September 13, 2014June 25, 2015 Paper Engineering 2 Comments Read more

A Modern Furniture Business Card

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

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Punch-out punch buggy

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

reddogrob September 10, 2014 Paper Engineering No Comments Read more
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