Anatomy of Design

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ANATOMY OF DESIGN

Just as designers have for eons fooled audiences through illusionist techniques

that make two-dimensional paper surfaces appear three-dimensional, they have

also engaged in the curious physics of paper engineering to make paper into

actual dimensional objects—to engage and delight. Pop-up books are the most

common form, as are a variant thereof, paper theaters, constructed of die-cut

papers that simulate stage, curtains, etc. Chilean Francisca Prieto’s 2003 design

for

Antibook, a graphic interpretation of the ninety-two-year-old Chilean poet

Nicanor Parra’s Antipoems, employs some of the same techniques used in pop-

up paper engineering ...