I have no shortage of ideas and one that I keep coming back to is to design a pop-up book. Though I’ve never made one before, I’ve loved pop-up books since I was a kid. On one of her recent thrift store outings, Adrianne found a vintage Robin Hood pop-up book and picked it up for me, which got me thinking about making one of my own again. A few days ago, I was doing some research on how to begin and happened across a site called Best Popup Books. The site seems like it hasn’t been updated in quite a while, but it still looks like a terrific resource, filled with content that includes interviews, profiles on a variety of artists, and video reviews. One particular post I enjoyed is an interview with Tina Kraus, who is an artist (or “paper engineer”) from Germany. In addition to her many other projects, Tina created an incredible pop-up book called Circus Zingaro a pop-up book that tells the story of a homeless girl who wants to join a traveling circus. Two of the other books that caught my eye are Alice in Wonderland Pop-Up Book by Robert Sabuda - Best Pop-up Books and Andy Warhol Pop Up Pop Art - The Silver Factory Pop Up Book.
Do you have a favorite pop-up book? I’d love to hear from you. Hit reply or leave a note in the comments.
Then perhaps you should be patronizing Lovepop greeting cards. Way fun. :-) Or rather, tell all your friends to do that, and send you cards.
I’ve always enjoyed them. As a child, I had quite the collection, many of them science oriented. One of my favorites was a Halley’s Comet pop-up. There was a telescope that unfolded and you would look through and run a strip of slides through to see the comet.
The human body pop-up was also excellent. You would move a tab in and out to make the heart beat.