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Bruce Foster is an American paper engineer and graphic designer who specializes in pop-up books. Called a "paper magic master",[1] 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.[2][3]

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.[4]

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.[5]

He began a career designing pop-up books as a freelancer for Baltimore book children’s book packager Ottenheimer Publishers.[2]

Selected bibliography

The following is a sample of the pop-up books paper engineered by Bruce Foster:[6]

Exhibitions

Year Title Location Notes
2003 Pop-ups: Art of the Paper Engineer[7] 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,[8][9] The Museum of Print History, Houston, TX Also included work by Irene Rosenberg
2010 Paper Engineering: Fold, Pull, Pop and Turn[10] Smithsonian Institution Libraries, National Museum of American History Also included Matthew Reinhart, David Hawcock, Chuck Fischer

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