Everyone is now asking where this sculpture from the book comes from. I answer, I made it myself, it’s called FoldBook.art

Unique gifts for the soul and interior are difficult to find. Personalized gifts are quite difficult. How many times have you had it when it was necessary exactly for a person and to his taste? It’s an eternal problem.

Recently I came across an unusual one meditation hobby set FoldBook.art.

The idea is simple: To view a book normally, you download a design and collect a three-dimensional inscription, symbol, name or designation from its pages. With these origami skills, you don’t wait.

On a shelf, such a paper sculpture looks original, but the final result is only half participation.

Flipping through sheets following interactive instructions with voice guidance for creating parts of the sculpture, and a flexible warehouse adds the ability to select an image after opening the set.

Below we will take a closer look at this interior decoration made from elements of applied art.

A classic idea charged with algorithms

I didn’t know an interesting fact, maybe you didn’t guess it either.

Turns out, artistic design of books in the form of three-dimensional sculptures were invented at least in the 1950s, when self-assembled magazines appeared.

This decoration looks stylish, uniquely attracting the attention of guests. But the pieces there were the same, because it is unlikely that you enjoyed much of an advantage.

Art continued to develop, but not everyone could still practice it. To create a three-dimensional form according to your design, you had to accurately build a diagram for each new object and manually mark the points with folds on the sheets. It turned out to be such an elite occupation that took an inordinate amount of time and effort to maintain.

In fact, at FoldBook.art, such gifts were expensive and time consuming because they were designed to order.

Now circuit design has become much easier. The free online designer gives you unlimited design options and requires extensive template preparation.

This makes the project an international level and at the same time an understandable gift, which was impossible just a few years ago.

What’s in the kit and how it works

In his hands lies a thick book of 928 pages in size 15×22 cm serious thickness with good volume. In fact, it only looks like a book. Inside, she filled in repeating text; it won’t look like a dummy. The branded yellow cover opens, suitable for lovers of a strict style.

There is a QR code on the dust jacket with a link to free generator instructions. You can get into it thanks to the authorization code, which is located on the front flap of the dust jacket.

After opening, ready-made templates are displayed and you can upload a small logo, text, inscription, symbol. For example, you can collect your ideas, birthday or wedding, favorite superhero icon – here’s how much imagination you have enough for.

👉 It is recommended to load the product without small parts and subtle patterns.

It is advisable to add something simple and large so that the process algorithms are correct and the result looks solid from afar.

This can be done from any device connected to the Internet, for example, directly from a smartphone. There is no need to download any applications.

Before confirming the design, you will show a three-dimensional model of future sculptures from books. It requires permission, it spins and looks whatever you want.

After making a decision, you implement the procedure: you can email it to yourself as a PDF file or run it interactively online.

Let’s look at the second method in more detail.

I was surprised by the procedure with a pleasant voice and music for relaxation.

I V.S. I recommend turning it on online instructions. Outwardly, it is similar to the settings of an interactive player, the main feature of which is the chic immersion of the sound.

I don’t know who was invited to record, but the beautiful female voice is very soothing and sounds familiar, as if the page was dictating popular voiceovers of the actress.

We thought of one nice detail. If you rewind the page or return to it after a while, the voice will softly say “continue.”

100% hit with music. There are five tracks to choose from: two meditative, two energetic (each with its own mood) and one with sounds of nature.

Among the settings, you can turn on and off music and voice, change the voice language (Russian or English) and the speed of dictation of pages, select and go to a specific page, and also view a 3D model of the finished sculpture before opening.

The same creation process is as simple as possible.

No special skills needed

At first glance, it seemed to me that there was an external effect in the assembly. But in fact, the process is simple: you just need to bend the sheets into the indicated places.

The peculiarity is that each page has a special bend in order to create, as it is assembled, more volume than the sheets in the book.

✅ Compiled without glue or scissors. The design is designed so that you add triangles according to the values ​​​​on the marking line, which is located in the margins of fuzzy pages.

For example, the instructions read: “page 7, A29 – B32” We look for the values, bend them 90 degrees, and move on.

On average it takes about three hours to create. As mentioned above, you can always stop and come back to the assembly later.

I liked that the site not only remembers the moment when you stopped, but also gives you the opportunity to rewind the desired page if it turns out that somewhere you made an inaccuracy when turning.

For me personally, the key point of FoldBook.art was precisely this meditative part. It’s nice to have fun and create paper art with your own hands in a relaxed atmosphere.

But you won’t show the result anywhere else.

A unique gift with a fresh idea

I see two possible scenarios in the nature of this set for FoldBook.art: it can be presented as entertainment for the evening or as an already assembled sculpture.

It all depends on the recipient. Will he like ready-made figures from books, or is he ready to devote an evening to a meditative hobby to create his own personal decoration for his home?

For example, no special skills are required to assemble the installation, and the result looks catchy, the surprise that guests evoke after the words “yes, we did it ourselves“

At the same time, book art will be a good handmade gift when you want to surprise with something applied and maintain the quality standard.

The endless choice of design greatly expands the list of places where you can put a finished decorative object: living room, office, children’s room, meeting room, hotel lobby or cafe, playroom, gym, corridor – there are a lot of options. Accordingly, the choice of who to give the set to is wide.

We add here the opportunity to feel the future result online while tracking the progress of the build on the web and receive a memorable gift that will always be looked upon with warmth.

Sold on Wildberry for 1290 rubles. Full set, free shipping. Everything we like.

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