We’ve got a brand new Kickstarter campaign to share! This time, it’s a super handy pop-up chessboard created by Paper Engineer David Hawcock and his team from Infinite Jest. When you’re a fan of pop-ups (like us) you have probably already seen his work on our website and YouTube channel. David Hawcock, who also created the Davinci’s Inventions pop-up book and the pop-up scenes in Paddington 2, now designed a chessboard that has some really neat features. And you can back this project on Kickstarter right now!

Who doesn’t like chess right? It’s one of the oldest board games that still has a huge fanbase from young to old. We’ve already seen chess on electronic devices, computer games, smaller travel editions, and recently magnetic boards that have mechanisms that move the pieces automatically. But this pop-up chess set adds a new category to the list. It folds out from a flat cover into a 3D chessboard and you can stop or continue the game any time you like. Because the pieces stay in place when you fold them in, it will be ready to play the next time you open it. That’s a really nice and unique feature to have for a physical chessboard!

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Great news! Another Poposition Press Kickstarter project! From master paper engineers David A. Carter and James Diaz, the sequel to their well-known The Elements of Pop Up explores advanced pop-up book techniques. A must-have for every Paper Engineer and hobbyist.

Over two decades after releasing The Elements of Pop Up, widely regarded as the best how-to book on making pop-ups, paper engineers David A. Carter and James Diaz have returned with The Complexities of Pop Up. A book packed with complex pop-up techniques and real working examples.

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We love to see pop-up books on Kickstarter! It’s a great way to get your hands on unique titles that most likely will be highly collectible over time. We have already seen some successful campaigns that made it to publication like What a Mess, 24 Hour Flowers and The Struwwelpeter Pop-Up. One of the first successfully funded pop-up book campaigns on Kickstarter was the beautiful Pop-up Funk book, published by Poposition Press. A collaboration between comic artist and illustrator Jim Mahfood and Paper Engineer Rosston Meyer. And here comes the exciting news: Pop-Up Funk is back on Kickstarter with a brand new campaign! Poposition Press, who also did a successfully funded Kickstarter campaign for The Pop-up Art Book, already has a lot of experience as an independent publisher. So investing money as a backer to this campaign is a safe bet. In this article, you will learn more about this beautiful pop-up title and how you can be part of making this publication reality.

Pop-Up Funk is succesfully funded!

February 28, 2020

Pop Up Funk is a beautifully illustrated pop up art book, paper engineered and published by Poposition Press. The book features artist Jim Mahfood’s unique style in a three dimensional pop up format. Pop Up Funk includes six pop up spreads: Funky Beats, Sir?, Grrl Scouts, Pure Gonzo, Everybody Loves Tank Girl, Pop Life and Thrilling.

“A pop up book featuring indie artist Jim Mahfood’s signature style, in three glorious dimensions.”

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In this video we will show you the most beautiful, stunning and amazing pop-up books from our pop-up book collection that are featured on our YouTube Channel.

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We would agree if someone would say that Matthew Reinhart can be considered as “the Rembrandt” amongst Paper Engineers. He keeps creating masterpiece after masterpiece. And recently, a brand new title popped-up in the Amazon store with the title The World of Warcraft Pop-Up Book, created by… Paper Engineer Matthew Reinhardt. We’re not sure if this is some far relative of Matthew Reinhart, who shares the same engineering genes and has a last name that has similarities with Rembrandt. It’s also plausible that this is just a typo. Even though the first explanation would be much more surprising, we’re almost certain that this is another new pop-up book created by Matthew Reinhart and we can’t wait for it!

“Prepare for an astonishing vision of the world of Azeroth like you’ve never seen before! Built by best-selling paper engineer Matthew Reinhardt”

So what do we know so far? Not much really. The Amazon description tells that it will contain a map of Azeroth. This can be created by unfolding each individual spread. Sounds familiar right? We have already seen this format in Matthew Reinhart’s Game of Thrones and Harry Potter pop-up books.

The Amazon page shows beautiful and detailed cover artwork that looks like a temporary concept. As you may have noticed there are no credits mentioned and there’s very little information. Basically, it’s just the title. It won’t take long for this image to be replaced with the final cover artwork. But we really wanted to see how this artwork would look like on a pop-up book so we have made this mock-up of the cover artwork placed on the Game of Thrones pop-up book.

Update: New cover artwork has recently been added to the Amazon page. Below on the right the first version and on the left, the latest version of the cover artwork.

Before we jump into conclusions, we have to warn you that this new title is so fresh, there’s a lot we don’t know and a lot we wish for. Looking at the specs of this new pop-up book, you’ll see that it weighs 1.7 pounds and that’s a lot less compared to the Game of Thrones and Harry Potter books that both weigh 2.6 pounds. The price of this book shows that it’s a more advanced pop-up title but that’s still no indication of how big it will be. And like the cover artwork, the specs can also change over time. So it looks like we will have to wait for more information about this World of Warcraft pop-up book. Make sure to follow our social media channels for news and check back to this article for updates. We will add more information as soon as we know more!

Make sure to check our updated list of upcoming pop-up books. 2019 is going to be a great pop-up year!

Amazon description:

Choose your faction, pick your weapon, and prepare for an astonishing vision of the world of Azeroth like you’ve never seen before! Built by best-selling paper engineer Matthew Reinhardt, the World of Warcraft Pop-Up Book brings the bemost well-loved locations of Warcraft to life, from the classic faction hubs of Orgrimmar and Stormwind, to the battle-scarred lands of Lordaeron and Teldrassil, and even the new capital cities of Kul Tiras and Zandalar! Each page unfolds into an eye-popping treat, showing depicting iconic locations sites in with brand-new art and interactive pieces ways that you’ve never seen before. Unfold each individual spread to form a map of Azeroth!

What you see above is a photo of the Game of Thrones pop-up book, unfolded into the map of Westeros. We don’t think it’s going to exactly like this but it may be close.

Information:

Amazon link: The World of Warcraft Pop-Up Book
Paper engineering: Matthew Reinhart
Published by: Blizzard Entertainment
Artwork: Unknown

Image credits: Blizzard Entertainment

More upcoming pop-up books

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It was a very exciting week for pop-up book collectors, Paper Engineers and especially members of the Movable Book Society. Yesterday, the Movable Book Society announced the 2018 Meggendorfer Prize winners in three categories: Emerging Paper Engineer, Best Paper Engineering Artist and Best Paper Engineering for a Trade Publication. Pop-up and movable enthusiasts from all over the world gathered last weekend in Kansas City to witness the announcement of this years Meggendorfer Prize winners. So let’s talk about the winners of the Meggendorfer prizes!

Meggendorfer Prize winner: Trade Publication

The winner of the 2018 Meggendorfer prize in the category Trade Publication is Simon Arizpe with his huge and amazing pop-up title Zahhak: The Legend Of The Serpent King. We haven’t reviewed this beautiful pop-up book yet but from what we’ve seen, this pop-up book is something different and it looks very impressive. The story of Zahhak is a retelling of the myth about the misguided Prince Zahhak who is easily swayed by the devil to murder his father and usurp the throne. Zahhak contains artwork created by New York-based Iranian filmmaker and graphic artist Hamid Rahmanian. The combination of both the Paper Engineering and artwork make this pop-up title a true cultural manifest.

We have to wait for just a while before our copy of the Zahhak pop-up book arrives. There will be a full review anytime soon but the video above is just as great and the perfect introduction of this huge masterpiece!   

Finalists for the category Trade Publication

You may already know some titles from this list but as you can see, the competition was very hard. In case you’re interested you can check out some of these amazing books in our previous reviews or order them online by clicking the Amazon link. Be warned!!! This might be your new wish list for your pop-up book collection!

Paper Engineer(s)	Title
Kelli Anderson	This Book is a Planetarium
Rosston Meyer	Junko Mizuno’s Triad Pop Up
Keith Allen	What a Mess! A Pop-Up Misadventure
Yoojin Kim	Leaves: An Autumn Pop-Up Book
Courtney W. McCarthy	ABC Pop-Up
David Pelham	The Raven: A Pop-up Book
Maike Biederstaedt	Creatures of the Deep

Artist Book and Emerging Paper Engineer winners

The prize for this year’s Best Paper Engineering Artist goes to Colette Fu, known for her photo sculpture pop-ups. Colette has won the Meggendorfer prize for her wonderful creation named: Tao Hua Yuan Ji: Source of the Peach Blossoms. This pop-up design also competed for the record for World’s Largest Pop-up Book with an impressive size of 13.8 x 21 feet! Vanessa Yusuf won the 2018 Emerging Paper Engineer Prize with her book “Bhinneka Tunggal Ika.”

Upcoming pop-up titles

The upcoming month is also the big finale of a lot of new pop-up book publications! Amazing new pop-up titles that are not just a great addition for collections but also perfect as a holiday gift. We’ve got them all lined up for you at our Upcoming Pop-up Books list!

2018 Meggendorfer Prize for Best Paper Engineering – Trade Publication. The Movable Book Society presents the Meggendorfer Prize for Best Paper Engineering for the most outstanding commercially published pop-up or movable book at its biennial conference. The nominated book must have been issued in the two preceding years (January 1, 2016 to December 31, 2017). The award honors Lothar Meggendorfer (1847-1925), a legendary 19th-century illustrator and movable books paper engineer. 

We’ve listed all (previous) winners and finalists in our Meggendorfer Collectors Guide. Check it out!

Image credits:
The Movable Book Society
Hamid Rahmanian
Simon Arizpe
Colette Fu

Previous Meggendorfer Prize winners

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“A to Z celebrates the 25th anniversary of The MBS, a forum for artists, collectors, librarians and others who love, create, share and study pop-up books.”

We think that an alphabet is a great choice for a subject! Not just because it gives room for 26 different Paper Engineers to display their work, but also because pop-up books about the alphabet are the most surprising when it comes to finding different engineering solutions to form a letter. Some examples of these are ABC3D by Marion Bataille, Aa-Zz by David Hawcock and the newly released Pop-up ABC by Courtney Watson McCarthy. Imagine how full of surprises this box set will be, because of all the different Paper Engineers who are represented. We’ve already seen some sneak peeks shared on social media but in case you’ve missed it, here’s a brief selection of what to expect.

 

Pre-order now!

The A to Z: Marvels in Paper Engineering box set is available to pre-order on the Movable Book Society’s website! Release date: September 27, 2018.

All pop-up cards are housed in a custom clamshell box designed by Paper Engineer Isabel Uria. It also includes a bonus pop-up card engineered by Bruce Foster and features a brief history of The Movable Book Society written by MBS founder Ann Montanaro Staples.

More info, video’s and a complete list of all Paper Engineers: A to Z: Marvels in Paper Engineering

Image credits

The letter J designed by Hiromi Takeda
The letter S designed by Isabel Uria
The letter E designed by Eric Broekhuis
The letter F designed by Yoojin Kim
The letter P designed by Maike Biederstaedt
The letter Z designed by Yevgeniya Yeretskaya (cover image)

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More ABC Pop-Up Books

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The Movable Book Society is delighted to announce the finalists for the 2018 Meggendorfer Artist Book Prize. This prize honors the best pop-up and movable artist book created in the past three years. The contest will be judged by Kevin Steele and Chuck Fischer at the 2018 Movable Book Society conference in Kansas City, Missouri, USA, on September 29.

Finalists include:

Nicolas Codron

Steps

Karen Esteves

Surrealism Today

Nicholas Danish

Detroit Nostalgia: A Pop-Up Book of Memories

Colette Fu

桃花源記 Tao Hua Yuan Ji: Source of the Peach Blossoms

Andrea Hempstead

Stickly-Prickly and Slow-Solid: A Pop-Up Adventure

The Foliage Library (Matthew Holbein & Emily Brooks)

24 Hour Flowers” and “The Bee Book

Paul Johnson

The Boy, the Boat and the Little Mermaid

Anne Kucera

The Gatekeepers

Emily Martin

King Leer: A Tragedy in Five Puppets

Elizabeth O’Connell

The Adventures of Apun the Arctic Fox

Susan Share

Undergrowth” and “Goose Lake Fantasy

Meggendorfer contenders video compilation

Below you’ll find a video with a compilation of all Meggendorfer contenders for the 2018 Artist Book Prize.

About The Movable Book Society

The Movable Book Society was established in 1993, when Bill Clinton was president of the United States, Beanie Babies were introduced and Rutgers University librarian Ann R. Montanaro published Pop-up and Movable Books: A Bibliography. The overwhelmingly positive feedback from collectors who purchased the book convinced her that there was abundant interest in the topic to form an organization of collectors, and thus she founded The Movable Book Society.

Author credit: The Movable Book Society
Cover photo: “Call Me Trimtab” by Graham Patten, winner of the 2016 Meggendorfer Artist Book Prize.

More info about the Meggendorfer Prize: The Movable Book Society

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We’re counting the days until two of Matthew Reinhart’s new pop-up titles are available. We already shared the new cover artwork and a mock-up of the upcoming Harry Potter: A Pop-Up Guide to Hogwarts. And last week, new cover artwork of Tim Burton’s the Nightmare before Christmas pop-up book was added to the Amazon store. So just like we did with the Harry Potter book, we also made a mock-up of this new pop-up title and it looks beautiful! We’ve asked Matthew Reinhart to share more about his upcoming pop-up books and like you’ll see, it’s going to be something to look forward to!

In the gallery above, from left to right: A shot with Sally in the foreground, the Mayor and Jack. In the middle a short clip of a pull-tab scene with a tall Jack who rises out of the spread. And on the right of this gallery, you can see a concept of an advent calendar that also will be released this year! The combination of Matthew Reinhart’s beautiful illustration style and stunning paper engineering is a joy to look at. Based on the images above, we think that this book is going to be mostly black!

“Experience Tim Burton’s iconic film like never before with this nightmarish pop-up of monstrous proportions!”

Last week, Matthew already revealed a part of the cover and we just discovered that high-resolution artwork of the complete cover is added to the Amazon product page! We couldn’t resist to also make a mock-up of The Nightmare Before Christmas Pop-Up book that will be released this fall.

And then this happened: A couple of days after our post about the cover mock-up, the image got pulled of Amazon and was replaced by new artwork with a brighter background and a slightly different illustration in the center of the layout. Both versions look beautiful and we will have to wait until the release day to see what the final version will be.

Amazon description:

Experience Tim Burton’s iconic film like never before with this nightmarish pop-up of monstrous proportions! From the renowned paper engineer Matthew Reinhart comes a mind-blowing retelling of this classic story in gravity-defying pop-up artwork on every page. A celebration marking the twenty-fifth anniversary of the groundbreaking movie, this is the perfect item for avid The Nightmare Before Christmas fans, holiday ghouls, and undead merrymakers alike.

Did you notice the tombstone at the bottom of the cover? How about that for a cool book credit! If you’re a fan like us, and you’re familiar with the dark humor of Tim Burton, you wouldn’t be surprised. But still, it’s one of the coolest book credits we’ve ever seen on a cover.

And there’s also more to share about the upcoming Harry Potter pop-up Book! The images above are screenshots of die-lines in a nesting sheet that looks like a jigsaw puzzle. This nesting sheet is filled with Kevin M. Wilson’s artwork of Harry and Hermione. When cut-out, these parts will finally form the pop-ups.

If you follow Matthew Reinhart on his Facebook or Instagram, you know you’re in for some good treats. This week Matthew shared some Jelly Beans and a sneak peek video of a white dummy of the Hogwarts Castle spread that will be part of a giant unfoldable map. Just like the amazing Game of Thrones: A Pop-up Guide to Westeros, this new Harry Potter pop-up book will be a combination of a book and 3D map with great proportions. Click here to read more about how this will work. The white dummy already looks very detailed, even without the artwork!

Product information:

Amazon link: Harry Potter: A Pop-Up Guide to Hogwarts
Paper engineering: Matthew Reinhart
Artwork: Kevin Wilson
Published by: Insight Editions

Amazon link: The Nightmare Before Christmas Pop-Up
Artwork and Paper engineering: Matthew Reinhart
Published by: Disney Editions

Image credits: Warner Bros, Insight Editions, Matthew Reinhart and Disney Editions

More pop-up books by Matthew Reinhart

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Great news! This is something that’s on our list for a long time but it’s finally here, a Community Forum for Paper Engineers and pop-up book collectors! We would like to invite you to take a look and create an account on our brand new forum. It’s free and will take less than a minute to register. This is a forum for everybody: Professional Paper Engineers, hobbyists, collectors or enthusiasts of pop-up books, paper art and paper engineering.

Just like any other new community board, this forum will take some time to fill up with posts and members. But we have to start somewhere and today is the big day everything is ready and all set to launch. So bear with us! We really hope that this Forum will grow into a beautiful community with members inspiring and helping each other. You can help by posting your work or collection items or share our forum with your friends and family.

5 reasons to join

The BestPopUpBooks Community Forum will be:

• All about Paper Engineering and Collecting
• Totaly free and accessible for everybody!
• A fun place to meet other engineers and collectors
• A source for us to find news and work to share on our platform
• A place to find inspiration and ideas

Start directly and register here to become a member of the Community Forum.

Custom Emoticons

We also added a set of extra emoticons to the forum! Easy to implement when you’re writing a post and need some decoration for your text.

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Below you’ll find all the subforum categories that are available. By clicking the title, you’ll go directly to the subforum. These categories may change over time but we think that for now, this will cover most of the subjects that you can post about. Subforums may be empty at the moment because this forum is brand new and needs some time to gather new posts and members.

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