Bruce Foster | |
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Education | University of Tennessee [1] |
Occupation(s) | Paper engineer, graphic designer |
Spouse | Lori Stanley |
Children | Nicole, Lydia [2] |
Website | paperpops |
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]
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]
The following is a sample of the pop-up books paper engineered by Bruce Foster: [8]
Year | Title | Location | Notes |
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2003 | Pop-ups: Art of the Paper Engineer [9] | The Sharon Arts Center in Peterborough, NH | Also included work from David A. Carter, Robert Sabuda |
2004 | Pop-Up Books: The Art of Paper Engineering, [10] [11] | The Museum of Print History, Houston, TX | Also included work by Irene Rosenberg |
2010 | Paper Engineering: Fold, Pull, Pop and Turn [12] | Smithsonian Institution Libraries, National Museum of American History | Also included Matthew Reinhart, David Hawcock, Chuck Fischer |
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