| The Movable Book Society will be 10 years old this year! We've made long lasting friends through the Society and will certainly be in attendance at the 2004 conference in San Diego this September. To commemorate the festivities the Society is creating a special memento book containing reproductions of pop-ups from some of the best paper engineers in history. Here's a Sneak Peek of how the project is shaping up!
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| Benedictine monk Matthew Paris created one of the first known paper movables in a book, the volvelle. This volvelle, from the 1200's, will be reproduced for the first time in the anniversary book with an ORIGINAL pop-up of Matthew Paris created at Robert's studio! |
The publishing company Dean & Son is credited with creating the first pop-ups in the mid 1800's. Little Red Riding Hood was one of four titles in their first pop-up series. Unlike contemporary pop-ups it becomes 3-dimensional by lifting a ribbon from the back panel. |
Harold Lentz's Blue Ribbon series captured the hearts of the children's world during the great depression. Lentz was so protective of his pop-ups that he had many of the designs patented! His series also included many standard children's subjects, like Pinocchio. |
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| The pop-ups for the Movable Book Society's 10th Anniversary book will be exact replicas of the originals. Each pop-up is carefully examined, then traced, transferred to white card stock and cut out and assembled according to the specifications of the original paper engineer. |
This circus scene from the Bookano Series (1920's Ð 1950's) has proved to be one of the more challenging pop-ups to reproduce. The clown at center is attached to a dowel, which flips him over through the use of string. What seems like a simple movement took a week to recreate! |
Julian Wehr gets into the circus act too with this hilarious big-top moment! A disgruntled weight lifter does his best to balance a less-than-petite ballerina while acrobats flip and twirl behind them. Wehr's magic lay in the fact that he could create lots of movement with just a few pieces of paper. |
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| Geraldine Clyne's popular series "The Jolly Jump-ups" follows an idealized American family through a variety of adventures and out-of-this-world explorations. Before humans had even gone into space Clyne imagined what it would be like to come face-to-face with our Martian neighbors! |
Considered by many to be the greatest paper engineer of the 20th century, Vojtech Kubasta took the words "pop-up" and transformed them into "POP-UP!" with his enormous displays of paper sculpture. His classic masterpiece "Christopher Columbus" will be reproduced in the anniversary book. |
Ib Penick had flight on his mind when he conceived the beloved "Those Fabulous Flying Machines" in 1985. The Wright Brothers try their best to get their new invention off the ground on a wind day at Kitty Hawk. |
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| This anniversary book will soon be available EXCLUSIVELY through RobertSabuda.com. We'll keep you updated on the details so you can be sure to get yours! |
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