Bruce Foster

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Bruce Foster
Education University of Tennessee [1]
Occupation(s)Paper engineer, graphic designer
SpouseLori Stanley
ChildrenNicole, Lydia [2]
Website paperpops.com

Bruce Foster is an American paper engineer and graphic designer who specializes in pop-up books. Called a "paper magic master", [3] 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 . [4] [5]

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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. [6]

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. [7]

He began a career designing pop-up books as a freelancer for Baltimore book children’s book packager Ottenheimer Publishers. [4]

Selected bibliography

The following is a sample of the pop-up books paper engineered by Bruce Foster: [8]

Exhibitions

YearTitleLocationNotes
2003Pop-ups: Art of the Paper Engineer [9] The Sharon Arts Center in Peterborough, NHAlso included work from David A. Carter, Robert Sabuda
2004Pop-Up Books: The Art of Paper Engineering, [10] [11] The Museum of Print History, Houston, TXAlso included work by Irene Rosenberg
2010Paper Engineering: Fold, Pull, Pop and Turn [12] Smithsonian Institution Libraries, National Museum of American HistoryAlso included Matthew Reinhart, David Hawcock, Chuck Fischer

References

  1. ↑ Hoffarth, Tom. ""Wow" con't: A Bruce Foster Q-and-A | Farther Off the Wall". www.insidesocal.com. Archived from the original on 29 September 2018. Retrieved 18 December 2016.
  2. ↑ "About | Paperpops". paperpops.com. Retrieved 16 December 2016.
  3. ↑ Uria, Isabel (May 2010). "Bruce Foster: Why He is a Paper Magic Master". Movable Stationery: The Movable Book Society Newsletter. 18 (2): 1–2.
  4. 1 2 Bluemel, Nancy; Taylor, Rhonda Lynette Harris (2012). Pop-up books: a guide for teachers and librarians. Libraries Unlimited. pp. 37–39. ISBN   9781591583981. OCLC   758844521.
  5. ↑ Trebbi, Jean-Charles; Corkett, Thomas (2012). The art of pop-up: the magical world of three-dimensional books. Hoaki Books SL. pp. 96–97. ISBN   9788492810659. OCLC   828847935.
  6. ↑ "Talking Design with 3D Paper Engineer Bruce Foster – Structural Graphics Blog". www.structuralgraphics.com. Retrieved 18 December 2016.
  7. ↑ "New Pop-Up Books Appeal Not Just to Kids, But Adults Too" . Harrisonburg Daily News Record. 4 January 2007. Retrieved 18 December 2016.
  8. ↑ Montanaro, Ann R (1993). Pop-up and movable books: a bibliography. Scarecrow Press. pp. 549–551. ISBN   0810837285. OCLC   62681468.
  9. ↑ "Pop-up Exhibits". Movable Stationery: The Movable Book Society Newsletter. 11 (1): 8. 1 January 1993. Retrieved 16 December 2016.
  10. ↑ "Exhibits". Movable Stationery: The Movable Book Society Newsletter. 12 (3): 9. August 2004. Retrieved 16 December 2016.
  11. ↑ Rubin, Ellen G. K. (November 2004). "With a Song in Our Heart: Movable Book Society 5th Conference". Movable Stationery. 12 (4): 8. Retrieved 16 December 2016.
  12. ↑ "Smithsonian Institution Libraries Unveils "Paper Engineering: Fold, Pull, Pop and Turn" | Newsdesk". newsdesk.si.edu. Retrieved 16 December 2016.
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