Papercraft Research

What is papercraft?
Papercraft, to my understanding, is a paper-made art and craft. Paper is the easy-to-find medium so it is easy for people to use paper to make things with, in our case we would be making 3d objects and understanding how folds, crease, and tabs should be connected in order to hold pieces of paper in place.

Reviewing an article: Popupology
The Popupology shop papercraft caught my eyes first. On the Colossal article, scrolling through that article, everything seemed very busy and complex, which I totally love, but it's not really my style. The Popupology shop ones, on the other hand, seemed so simple but so cool that it caught my eyes. Especially the hand-cut out one, how that is just a simple cut-out flipped on the other side and having it pop out with the thumbs looking like it's intersecting, that really stood out to me. Because this reminded me of elementary and how we used to do these DIY pop-up cards for holidays, though our approach was on separate paper tapped together. The Popupology shop cut-outs are uniquely cut and folded in a way where it's the same piece of paper but it's still considered a pop-up style that we tried to achieve back in elementary. I prefer this style more than the other because it aims for a simplistic and clean type of paper craft.

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2011/12/fun-with-paper/
> https://popupology.bigcartel.com/

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