Pop-up cards (World Heritage Site in Sweden)
I made pop-up cards of Sweden’s World Heritage Site.
The name of the heritage is “Hanseatic Town of Visby". Visby on Gotland has a defensive wall (also called a ring wall) that surrounds the city. And the wall has many towers and gates. This time I made pop-up cards of the towers.
The first photo is the card of “Kajsar Tower".
Since it is a stone tower and has few windows, I thought that it would not look good even if I made a white pop-up card, so this time I made a 180 ° type colored pattern. Compared to the white version of the 90 ° type, I had to make an assembly instruction, and it took a lot of time and effort.
When drawing a stone pattern on the surface, if I draw a clean straight line, it will not feel the masonry, so I tried to make the line as pencil-like effect. Then the file size became 53MB, and even if I wrote it to pdf and lowered the image quality, it became 9.2MB. This is not suitable for download.
I couldn’t help it, so I made an image of the masonry part once, pasted it, and wrote it out to pdf, then it managed to reach about 250KB.
Although I released the pattern, due to the design of the parts, it did not fit in one A4 size sheet. In the end the first page was set to A4 and the second page was set to A5.
I think printing is a little troublesome. If you like … please try it.
The other pop-up card is the Powder Tower on the same wall of Visby. The card is a 90 ° type, but I didn’t publish the pattern. I thought it looks better to draw the surface in color version as the Kajsar Tower.
On a different point, I made a change on my site. In the pop-up card of the world’s cultural properties, I divided the European region into four parts on the map. It doesn’t have Western and Southern European pop-up cards yet, but I plan to make them in the near future.
The main site and blog were updated for the first time this year.
It’s been so late, but thank you for your continued support in 2019.
[postscript]
The download of the pattern was closed. (2021.05.30)