Malaysian 🇲🇾 Paper Engineer

mattmadestudios - Twitch Day 22: Co-working backlog tasks & preparing for exhibition

Back from the holidays, it's time to clear the backlogs.

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I am facing a similar issue as well. Just sent a package that weighs 0.5kg, and it's exceeded my budget. Couldn't believe how vast the changes are before the tariff and such. Even it affected my country's postal by using a 3rd party agent. Prices doubled!

Flip through the pages of our first popup book on endangered animals of Malaysia at SIBF Selangor on 6th December, next Saturday!

Selangor International Book Fair 2025
📄 Booth section: Illustrator Lane, IL04
📅 6th December
📌 Setia City Convention Centre
⏰️ 9 AM - 10 PM

#popupbook #SIBF2025

20 cards to send all over the world! This is the easiest card assembly, and I somehow manage to screw up the last glueing part, hahaha.

Art by minnim.art on IG #popupcard #christmas #itstime

Overhours is a satirical action-tower defense game set in a fictional agency facing an invasion of soul-eating monsters. Work the night owl shift and face the hordes with a variety of traps and special abilities!

Wishlist Overhours now! Merry early Christmas @ctrldstudio.bsky.social ! #notanad

Hapi burthaye me!

You can purchase my book through this form. For international buyers, your payment method will be different than in the form. Please fill in the same way, but add a note as a screenshot for the payment requirement. Or contact me further. Have a great day!

And that's how a popup book is assembled. I'll repeat these steps until my batches are done. Thank you for reading.

Then I'll grab a plastic cover and slide the product in it for protect. And now it's ready to be ship or sold at an art market!

Now, onto the cover glue. I'd like to prefold the cover before glue. I'll use 3 binder clips to help me navigate it. Most of the time I got it right, other times I had to accept the defeat and the book may be slightly defected. (I kinda rushed for this video)

Next, I'll glue the other part of the pages. This will make an accordion binding. Slice out the excess pages (knife must be sharp!), one-by-one, and then glue to the cover. I don't slice the entire page together due to past experiences that the edge wouldn't look clean.

Once I had done enough, I'll take Page 1 & 2, arrange them, making sure it's aligned, with binder clip, and glue them [CRUCIAL STEP]. I'll use a large and heavy surface area book to seal the glue. Repeat this process until 10 pages are glued.

I start with the inside pages. I'll take 100 pages (10 pages per book), pre-fold, and then arrange the pages. Then, I start folding the pieces based on it's pages, and glue them on the page. I work my way until I reached the last page, and repeat the steps.

My book has 10 pages, 21 individual pieces, and 1 hardcover. This time the printer is nice to separate the pieces in single plastic bags, which surprised me.

After prototyping and printing methods are discussed and approved, get your printing materials through delivery or self pick-up. Why is this important? Because this is the time that was uncounted and unseen for during this process.

Here's a thread on how a popup book is assembled! Based on my experience as a self-published and hand-assembled popup book author:

mattmadestudios - Twitch Day 18: assembling my self-published popup book

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mattmadestudios - Twitch Day 16: working on my art business. New streaming schedule!

Day 16: working on my art business. New streaming schedule!

Today we'll continue working on the assembly line of my book and 300 cards.

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mattmadestudios - Twitch Day 15: working on my art business. New streaming schedule!

Day 15: working on my art business. New streaming schedule!

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"Jane had said that hope was a survival trait, and now I was starting to understand why. When we face adversity, it is hope that gives us the confidence to rally our indomitable spirit to overcome it." - Douglas Abrams, The Book of Hope

#hope #janegoodall #thebookofhope

I stand by Palestine. Sail to Gaza. Break the siege. Stop the genocide.

This is humanity.

Day 2 of Selangor Creative Economy Expo. Tuanku tak singgah booth kita pun takpe lah. Dah dua kali dah VIP kata nak singgah, tak sampai pun, huhu... Anyway, no book sold KPI hit, but tons of tons of people meeting and lots of networking happening today!

Matt Made Studios and friends, signing off!

The Movable Book Society Conference is in full swing! Thank you for making it available virtually.

Day 1 of Selangor Creative Economy Expo. I didn't get to win the funding, but hey, I got to go on stage and did impromtu show-n-tell of what I can do. Not bad, now I just need someone to buy my book to hit the KPI #SCEE2025

Forgot to share this here lmao

My recent commission work! A popup food pyramid for ASD children. Commission is open!

I don't support AI art. I designed the popup and managed the production. #commission #paper

We're back on the market grind. This might be the last of the year. I'm selling my book and my old stocks of pop-up greeting cards at both events. Mark your calendars and come say hi!

I just did the best pitch deck ever, and Im proud of it. Not expecting to win, but man, if I had done this, I could have won during my residency. I AM A BUSINESSMAN

Excuse the title. Im still tweaking it, and this title slide is usually the last thing to do.

Every failure has a deeper context. Like, I turned down the brick and mortar concept even though I was the one who wanted it first. But cons weigh more than pros. And I've been seeing more success stories on my fyp that I'm starting to get jealous and comparing. So, I turn to wit.

I put the L (ěl) in celebrate (sĕl'ə-brãt).

A finished product starts with very ugly shapes.

Disclaimer: The client provided the graphics that are AI-generated. I do not stand with AI art, and this is not within my control, I'm being paid for the mechanism, and I need it to survive... sadly #paperengineer #popupcard #commission