Quick Facts
Biography
Bruce Foster is an American paper engineer and graphic designer who specializes in pop-up books. Called a "paper magic master", 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.
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.
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.
He began a career designing pop-up books as a freelancer for Baltimore book children’s book packager Ottenheimer Publishers.
Selected Bibliography
The following is a sample of the pop-up books paper engineered by Bruce Foster:
Exhibitions
| Year | Title | Location | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | Pop-ups: Art of the Paper Engineer | 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, | The Museum of Print History, Houston, TX | Also included work by Irene Rosenberg |
| 2010 | Paper Engineering: Fold, Pull, Pop and Turn | Smithsonian Institution Libraries, National Museum of American History | Also included Matthew Reinhart, David Hawcock, Chuck Fischer |