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:
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Exhibitions
References
External links
* Officia
Bruce Foster Website
Best of Pop-ups author profile, Bruce FosterSmithsonian Libraries interviewwith book artist
Chuck Fischer and paper engineer Bruce Foster on how the pop-up book ''Angels'' was created.
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Living people
Pop-up book artists
University of Tennessee alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)