Mark Hiner

I aim to enable students to make their ideas really pop-up by ensuring they have a thorough grounding in the fundamental techniques of paper engineering and then inspire them with exercises to liberate their creativity.

Have you ever tried to make a pop-up card or marvelled at the ingenious paper mechanisms in a pop-up book? This course will introduce you to the skills and essential mechanisms that paper engineers need to design and make pop cards and books whether for your own satisfaction or with a view to publication.

The practical nature of my course provides the student with a ‘library’ of mechanisms that they can refer to which will help them turn their ideas into working pop-ups.

Pop-up books are magic. How can an apparently solid, 3-D object spring out of a flat, 2-D book? How does it work? Can I make the magic work?

Look at my website for examples of some of my past work and a history of the medium.

I trained as a graphic designer at Norwich School of Art before studying for my MA in Graphic Information at the Royal College of Art in London.

I have, over the years, taught students at many art schools and colleges about the principles of paper engineering and run courses on simple pop-ups for children in museums and schools.

Examples of my paper engineering for pop-up books are in the Design Museum collection.

In addition to the many books, cards, advertising mailers and other items I have paper engineered I have written ‘Paper Engineering for Pop-up Books and Cards’ and ‘Up-Pops, Paper Engineering with Elastic Bands’, specifically to help aspiring pop-up artists.

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