Alice in wonderland book

I struggled with this project as I was not a fan of books and that I had no money to help pay for prints or supplys, I could not produce any of the things I enitialy wanted to design as inorder for them to work I needed them to be a certain size and A3/ A4 was all I could really work with, in a crit it was stated that making the book doesn't have to be expensive and having a spending limitation would make it interesting and much more personal in designing.

Eventually I got an idea of producing a daisy chain sculpture of retro Alice's to be displayed as an orniment.

The back of the Alices would be this text which would then make it a book in my eyes, and doing a double sided print was all I could manage as I could not purchase and did not have any scrap books to experiment with.

It was the packaging side of things which stopped my idea dead in its tracks, as I had little material to package the Wonderland images with, which was when I got the idea for producing a mini pop out, Above is an illustration I drew of a background of what my Alice would stand in front of.

This is the net of the design, each square measures up 8cmx8cm, and I had to type the first page of Alice in wonderland to make it seem more interesting and actualy work as a book, on the green cube there is a rectangle of a darker shade of green, this is where pop out Alice would be placed, in order to keep them all in a similar place to work as a set.

I would of quite liked to make 10 different books with different scenes of the book . But I struggled finding the pages on such short notice and did not have the time to make them so unique.

Just as documentation proof, Alice is a pop up and it isn't some awesome photo edit, either that or she is annorexic.

Backtracking to my enitial idea/ concept of the daisy chain Alices, this is what they would of looked like.

With scalpling them out carefully, as they were very fragile, I had to take my time, It took about 20 minutes per joined 6 Alices. I had very little time for the deadline so I could not produce these at this rate, especially with the fact that the scalple blades grip had slowly bruised, blistered and made my hand bleed.

In all this is how many Alices were left and I had about 3 hours to finish.

Which is when I got the idea of making the book smaller and working with pop ups, As I had already cut out 3 sets of Alices making 18 individual, I then chose to seperate them in order to work with a faster concept/ design project. I also had 8 Alices spare incase something was to go wrong.

This is the original net for my design in order to work out what page went where and how it would fold, I found I did not need the top right corner but did need it placing above the background square as a title page, therefore making the image template into an L.

When printed out onto A4 paper it looked a like the above, I chose a light pink tonned thin card stock for strength and stability and then cut the image out in order to fold and develop to its final state.

I had cut out two slits in order for Alice to slot in and be supported when the book was opened. Alice folded over like the photo above in order to close the book and keep her safe.

When opened the simple pop out looked quite effective and very beatrics potter.


I chose a black cover for the book and a gold kingdom typeface to keep Alice in wonderland related to the book and not the new movie.

I am really happy with the outcome, I believe that the production of an Alice and wonderland book was quite a smart idea with it coming back on the marked with Tim Burtons new production of the 3D movie, also it being a pop out book relates to the new phase of cinema audiences only liking things in 3D. In essence I think this is an appropriate production which includes many ideas of shape to produce such a book.