Pop upsIn 1932, the term "pop-up" was first used by the American publisher Blue Ribbon Books for a series of movable books created by Harold B. Lenz. In these pop-up books, figures or scenes stand up or "pop up" from the page of the book as it is opened to 90 or 180 degrees. |
|||||||||
 |
|||||||||
 |
Some of the first examples of this technique are the Daily Express Children's Annuals and the Bookano Series from the 1920s en 1930s, published in England by Louis Giraud. |
||||||||
| Because of the second world war, few movable books were published between 1940 and 1950. Some nice examples from this period were made by Julian Wehr, who used tab mechanisms to create movement, and Viotech Kubasta, a Czechoslovakian artist. | |||||||||
 |
|||||||||
| It lasted until the mid 1960s before a new wave of pop-up books began, initiated by Waldo Hunt, an American entrepeneur, and the paper engineer Ib Penick. Since then, a growing number of authors, illustrators and paper engineers have been creating new and innovative pop-up books for an ever increasing audience. | |||||||||
 |
|||||||||
 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|