My top ten possible concepts - Pop up books

Elod  Beregszaszi
http://www.flickr.com/photos/popupology/


"I have been making, cutting and folding paper for over 10 years.

My interest in origamic (combination of cutting and folding) techniques was sparked by a trip to the London Japan Centre where I chanced on a pattern book by Masahiro Chatani. I was immediately hooked, and have been designing my own templates, both architectural and abstract, ever since.

I founded POPUPOLOGY in 2006 as a design studio specializing in paper-engineering, working on commissions and producing installations for art and design shows. I am currently working on a number of collaborative projects from window displays to folding paper products.

I look forward to exploring potential applications for paper folding in numerous fields of design, from typography to interior decoration.

Elod Beregszaszi"


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I'm thinking it would be brilliant to produce a pop up catalogue of the weehouses, as a visual aid to customers, as 2d images simply aren't enough!

Templates provided : http://www.popupology.co.uk/lessons/view/3

Grand designs - Flat pack builds

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/grand-designs/4od#3218734


To house to be put together on site, using a steel frame, a meccanno like build. Taking just 5 days to build the structure, 2 weeks further for interior.


Walls built in consideration for future, not permanent structures, they can be moved.


£300,000 for entire build

The new England gable house - Grand designs

A home bought entirely online as a 'kit'

The same idea as the 'Weehouses'

Good is...? My top ten possible concepts

Beginning to look into researching my top ten possible concepts.

1. Packaging for 'weehouses' building materials (wood, nails etc)
2. Popup catalogue book for 'weehouses'
3. Catalogue
4. Environmental promotional graphics
5. Packaging design - push out parts to create a 'weehouse' mock up
6. Transportation vehicle graphics
7. Magazine spread 
8. Tool kit design (the sort which comes with flat pack furniture)
9. Company introductory Mail shot
10. Estate agents products 

Grand designs - Wee houses

What is good...? - Possible packaging forms - Looking at nets

I wanted to start looking at packaging, as I feel it is a huge factor to how you produce and design your final outcome, after all, the content has to fit inside the packaging....

I produced a design sheet which links to the packaging on my design practise blog

I had thought about many possible outcomes, each had a varied approach to the way in which it would be delivered to my target audience. One option was to design a 'Weehouse' catalogue / pack, providing a  material way to looks at the products and information about each of them. An expanding folder was an original idea, but after looking through the 'Special packaging' book I came across several other approaches. Here are just a few.

This cold hold several individual items, using dividers to utilise the small space into an organised folder like pack. To make life that little bit easier for the target audience to be able to find the information wanted. Using such a style of packaging means I can put a range of sizes and materials within it, for instance, fold out diagrams, step by steps, material samples etc.

Another packaging method - For the stated above reasons.

Thinking about promotion, this sort of packaging could hold business cards for the company i'm promoting and packaging.

I like the formality with the packaging style below, it resembles a clip board folder. Its simple, could be posted, or hung up in an estate agents. It could hold a simple catalogue with a few samples or images within the flap of the packaging.

Good is...? - Pop up tents

Duffields - Professional print visit

So we took a visit to Duffields, situated off Kirkstall road. What looked liked rather a small business ended up being a rather large and impressive print company. We were given a tour around the building, through the formal admin side of things, and the practical printing workshops too. It was quite something, certainly the scale of the machines used within printing. I didn't expect it would take so many machines to process a job, but each do a particular bit. Whether that be printing, folding or laminating. Duffield produce litho and digital print so unfortunately we couldn't look at things like spot glosses etc.

The names of each of the machines escape me, as it was rather loud and the tour guide rather quiet! So I took a load of pictures instead..

Notes taken during presentation given by printers:

Printers prefer to be sent a high resolution PDF formatted document, as this embeds any used fonts and images.

This goes through the pre press work floor for checks

Jobs get a unique number so clients can get the same overbite to allow colours

Create all colours to process before converting to PDF

PDF's need to be saved in the same way - they can be saved in many ways - 3mm bleed and crops marks 

When designing, leave a margin, items not too close to edge, think in regard to printer.

They have programs for impositioning 

Every 8 pages you can print onto one page B2 print - 8 A4's

More economic to make a bach of mulitples of 8 or 16

They get upto 20 jobs a day

24 / 7

£100 - £25,000

When designing consider bind, you need to leave space for bind and consider overlay

Offset page design

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