Center for the Book faculty member and book artist Emily Martin chooses a format for each work that assists in telling the story she wants to tell with the content. This exciting new video introduces her work, especially the pieces that have a focus on circular story telling that draw upon the continuous flexagon as a format for telling that story. Stick around as Emily then demonstrates how to make the continuous flexagon format.

The pattern is below. Give it a try yourself and share the results with us by emailing colleen-theisen@uiowa.edu or tagging us @uispeccoll and using the hashtag #uiflexagon on Twitter.

 

Emily Martin’s continuous flexagon seen below:

 

Download Continuous Flexagon Pattern

 

Watch the whole video:

Stop by Special Collections to see more of Emily Martin’s work, or check out her website: http://emilymartin.com/

 

Script and host: Colleen Theisen

Artist and guest: Emily Martin

Video: Keaton Fuller

Editing: Farah Boules