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Bruce Foster is an American paper engineer and
graphic designer A graphic designer is a practitioner who follows the discipline of graphic design, either within companies or organizations or independently. They are professionals in design and visual communication, with their primary focus on transforming ...
who specializes in
pop-up book A pop-up book is any book with three-dimensional space, three-dimensional pages, often with elements that ''pop up'' as a page is turned. The terminology serves as an umbrella term for movable book, pop-ups, tunnel books, transformations, volvel ...
s. Called a "paper magic master", he has created more than 40 pop-up books for both children and adults, in addition to the pop-up designs that appeared in the 2007 film '' Enchanted''.


Biography

Foster studied fine and studio arts the University of Tennessee. He spent years in designing trade show graphics and, later, as an ad agency creative director. Foster was inspired to learn how to create 3D books after seeing his first pop-up book, Kees Moerbeek's ''Hot Pursuit: A Forward and Backward Pop-up Book'' and taught himself by reverse engineering published books. "I destroyed a lot of them trying to figure out how they were done," he said. He began a career designing pop-up books as a freelancer for Baltimore book children’s book packager Ottenheimer Publishers.


Selected bibliography

The following is a sample of the pop-up books paper engineered by Bruce Foster: * * * * * * * * *


Exhibitions


References


External links

* Officia
Bruce Foster Website

Best of Pop-ups author profile, Bruce Foster

Smithsonian Libraries interview
with book artist Chuck Fischer and paper engineer Bruce Foster on how the pop-up book ''Angels'' was created. {{DEFAULTSORT:Foster, Bruce Living people Pop-up book artists University of Tennessee alumni Year of birth missing (living people)