Make a diamond-paged book

Not such a practical book, as a book that is, itself, part of the image.

The book can be flicked through, or opened out to view every page at once. Made large enough, and the right way round, it can become a decorative hanging as well.

Step 1 Materials

• The attached template (pick the version you prefer)
• Paper and printer (unless you want to hand-draw your own version)
• Heavier card for covers.
• Scissors
• Glue
• Decorative drawing materials - pencils, pens, colours etc.

Comments

[kolowinter]

I really enjoyed the video. Very clever and clear presentation. I'm thinking it would make a great card to send my sister with sentiments about why her friendship means so much to me. Thank you for taking the time to share your knowledge with others.

[Kiteman]

You are very welcome.

[VIRON]

This reminds me of R. Buckminster Fuller's TETRASCROLL, which had triangular pages, and he seemed to believe he was revealing lost knowledge from Atlantis in a childish way from what I remember. It was very interesting.

[threecheersfornick]

Cool. It looks a bit small, though. I'd want to make it at least twice that size.

[Kiteman]

The template in the video was cut from an A4 sheet - if it was term time, I'd have been able to photocopy it up to A3, diagonally across the page: it would have ended up twice the area.

[threecheersfornick]

I see. Do you know what the North American (read:Canadian) equivalent of a3 is? I'm to lazy to troll through wikipedia right now -- that article is a mess.

[Kiteman]

A3 = 297x420mm
A4 = 210x297mm

[TheCheese9921]

Ooooh its a POP-UP yaaa, this is pretty cool

[zachninme]

My friend used this technique on a school project, and the teacher flipped out. (In a really good way). For some reason, they find this "creative". I'll try to get him to take a picture.