Pop Up Rats

Molly Brooks has been posting on the handmade books livejournal about her book pop up book Rattenkonig, a picture book of pen-and-ink drawings with two pop up spreads, three cutouts, and a central 3D box structure with moving layers. There’s a picture below. In this blog post she shows her notes and sketches for designing and making the book. The finished book, with lots of photos, is here (I especially appreciate that she’s illustrated the back side of the accordion fold pages.) Finally, she recently built a box for it — see the pictures here. You can see all of Molly’s artist’s books here.

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