Shadow title

Book of Shadows: 2D shape cutouts cast silhouettes on the book’s pages, taking paper cut-outs a step further.

Off the tracks

A children’s book with an interactive twist - ‘Motion silhouette’ from its Japanese creators, Megumi Kajiwara and Tathuhiko Nijima, engages readers through pop-up pieces that require lighting to animate shadow pictures on each page.

The story changes depending on where the shadows fall on the page, and shadows move around the page, as you manipulate the light source and how you hold each page. The idea is to add elements of manual animation that are necessarily subjective – each person will hold, turn and highlight the cutouts in different ways.

‘Motion Silhouette’ is actually a sequel to another book, simply titled ‘Silhouette’, a work which similarly uses slightly less-developed pop-up pages to create a more basic multi-dimensional experience.
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