Monday, March 17, 2014

peace

Channeling one's inner hippy, a peace sign can be card. This had to have already been done a million times, peace sign as card.


A peace sign is a crimp. 



A crimp like this can move a whole page of content attached to one of of its triangles. 

[It also displaces the central fold by turning an "|" valley-type score line into a "Y" with two valley-type score lines and one peak-type score line. Paper mechanism intended for the central fold valley score (most) and on recto vs left-o action (most) is moved to either side or both side, but that advantage is not availed here.]


The empty space can be filled in with a new square with its own score line, to tuck back in origami-style. 


Pow! Flower power. There is not much to it except the card gets bigger when opened and that is a bit startling, nothing pops up. The inserts added to the crimps slide across both pages as two scoops. The flower painted twice, once on the background and again on the blades.  The large blades cover the first flower, they are seen as the blades with petals painted on them slide over the background appearing to double the number of petals as they slide, then obscure, as old camera shutters used to close with blades that slide across each other to form a specific aperture. 

1 comment:

deborah said...

Oh no you DINT! If you were as cool as this card you would make us a vid of a real one :)

I'm sure you are aware the possibilities are endless. A plane coming at you, then suddenly the props are a foot from your nose. And the caption reads __________________.

A heart, then a heart exploded, showing ventricles and valves, saying, 'my heart 'splodes for you.'

A flying squirrel is headed straight for you, then his face fills the card, with the caption, 'o hai.

A 1958 Ford Fairlane coming at you, then the grille fills the image, with the caption, 'remember when we didn't hate each other?'