Bruce Foster Paper Engineering

Wow. I can’t believe I’ve let several months pass without an update here!  I’ve been so busy, not only with new projects, but also with an extraordinarily large number of school visits, appearances, and book signings! Its so incredibly rewarding getting out to share my work with new people, visiting new schools especially, but now [...]

Recent MFA graduate, Bernadette Puleo, has graciously allowed me to post a pdf of her graduate thesis paper at Marywood Universtity in Scranton, Pennsylvania online for all of you to enjoy.  This paper explores both the history of pop-ups and its current state as well as the future of our art form in these changing [...]

I will be appearing September 10 at the East Texas Book Fest in Tyler, Texas and giving a presentation on pop-up books and how they are created.  This is going to be a huge day with dozens of authors in attendance.  Quoting from their website, “Be a part of the third East Texas Book Fest, [...]

May was a very busy beginning to summer 2011.  Visiting Washington DC was an adventure in and of itself. Not only did I present a lecture to the Smithsonian, but I also visited the Parkway School in Frederick, MD, met Bryan Voltaggio (Top Chef) at his incredible restaurant, Volt, and visited the Corcoran pop-up class [...]

This has been a busy December already! Last week I visited Dallas at the invitation of Matthew Abramowitz, proprietor of A Storybook House, a charming and original home to not only children’s books, but original works of art for sale by some of our leading children’s books illustrators. Sadly, The Storybook House has announced it [...]

By MiChelle Jones/ Special Contributor to The Dallas Morning News….Nashville-based writer MiChelle Jones really wants to see that pop-up exhibition in D.C. Movable books have fascinated people for centuries; modern pop-ups have become increasingly elaborate and often include miniature versions to augment the larger jaw-dropping spreads. Pop-up books are simulated in commercials and mimicked in [...]

“A Christmas Carol” by Chuck Fischer, Paper Engineering by Bruce Foster, will be released November 10 by Little, Brown, who has just posted this beautiful video introduction on YouTube.  Of note, throughout the pop up book, there are mini-booklets that reproduce the entire text of Charles Dickens’ original classic. Also, Chuck and I will be [...]

Mark Mitchell, author of the fantastic blog, HowtobeaChildrensBookIllustrator.wordpress.com has just posted an interview he conducted at my studio. The interview gives some history of my work as well as some insights into the way I create pop-ups. Mark was kind enough to post several clips of our interview on his YouTube channel as well.  C’mon! [...]

Harry Potter, A Pop-Up Book, will be released nationwide on November 16, 2010 three days in advance of the release of Warner Bros.’  Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows! I am as excited about sharing this book with the world as I have ever been. It may be a cliché, but this really was a labor of love. My [...]

Recently I was asked to design a pop-up for Dreamworks Animation. The national design firm, Curran & Connors, worked with me to develop a corporate presentation for the famous studio. The centerpiece of the leather-bound folder is a pop-up set on the studio’s campus itself, featuring characters from its six animated properties, Shrek, Madagascar, Monsters [...]