Bruce Foster

How He Got Started

Bruce has been designing with paper since the late 80’s when, as a freelance graphic designer, he was tasked with creating a pop-up marketing piece for Hi-C Juices. Having dabbled with sculptural art in graduate school, the opportunity to convert flat graphic design into movable and three dimensional art was transformative. As such, Bruce has since designed more than 60 pop-up books and countless other pop-up and movable creations for large publishers, museums, packagers, corporations and individuals. He has created an elaborate three dimensional book for the Harry Potter films, worked with industry icons like Mo Willems, Buzz Aldrin, and Paige Braddock, and even provided paper engineering for the Disney film, Enchanted!

A Dynamic Speaker

An energetic and entertaining speaker, Bruce visits elementary schools often, and has also given presentations to adult audiences at The Smithsonian in Washington DC; The Public Library in Cincinnati, OH; The Dennos Museum in Traverse City, MI; the IDA Center in Seoul, South Korea; and most recently, was the keynote speaker at the 25th anniversary conference of the Movable Book Society.

Beginnings

Originally from St. Francisville, a small plantation town in Louisiana, Bruce attended the University of Tennessee in Knoxville before meeting the love of his life, Lori, in Florida. Bruce and Lori have raised two wonderful girls (Nicole, now an RN, and Lydia, pastry chef, dog whisperer, and student on her way to joining her sister as an RN) after moving to Houston, TX in the mid-80’s.