Bruce Foster Paper Engineering

The latest issue of Movable Stationery, the newsletter for members of the Movable Book Society, featured a rather in-depth profile piece on my work by Isabel Uria, a very talented, creative aspiring paper engineer. For those of you who would like to discover more information on my work, history and philosophy, this article by Isabel is [...]

Exploring the history of Pop-Up Books, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History will host an exhibition of their acquisitions through the summer of 2011. Curated by Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum Library’s Stephen Van Dyk, the show features more than 50 books spanning four centuries. Of special note, I was honored to be asked, along with [...]

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I’d like to thank all the great folks at The Public Library of Cincinnati and of course, Carolyn Hughes, for the fabulous reception my wife, Lori, and I were given this past week. The library is exhibiting 115 books from Mrs. Hughes’ collection, which is a very impressive number of books to display, believe me! [...]

The Saturday before Christmas, NBC’s The Today Show featured Wow! The Pop-Up Book of Sports on its Annual Holiday Gift Guide episode. John Searles, book editor for Cosmopolitan Magazine, chose the selected books and presented them on the episode. This marks the third time in the last four years that a book I paper engineered [...]

Last week, my friend and fellow paper engineer, David Carter, paid a visit to the studios of Martha Stewart. David spoke briefly about his new award winning book, White Noise, before leading the TV audience through his design for a pop-up tabletop Christmas Tree. Congratulations, David, on White Noise being named a New York Times [...]

December 6, Kaye Guno Cloutman of The Sacramento Book Review interviewed Chuck on his career, how he came to author pop-up books and in particular, this season’s pop-up book, Angels. This is a very in depth and insightful discussion and includes a review of the book as well. Listen to this interesting audio blog to [...]

Last week book reviewer and blogsite, Bermudaonion, after having reviewed Angels earlier, posted a very nice interview with me about my experiences with paper engineering. Thank you for some insightful and interesting questions! And then yesterday, Publishers Weekly Children’s Bookshelf ran a notice about our book event at Books of Wonder in New York. See Pop [...]

Just returned from New York where I had been invited by the store’s owner, Peter Glassman, to attend the annual Books of Wonder Pop-Up Celebration. It was a fantastic experience that allowed me to present my four new books for the fall, see some old friends and make lots of new ones. Also present was [...]

My friends at Sports Illustrated Kids have made a video giving a sneak peek at the development of Wow! Included are glimpses of a couple of my developing dummies and a nesting sheet from the printer prior to cutting out the pieces. Still trying to learn how to post videos using this program, but in [...]