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Left: Rosston Meyer, right: Marc Meyer<\/p>\n
We’ve just published a video review<\/a> on our YouTube channel about The Pop-Up Art Book<\/em>. An amazing collection of modern street art, illustrations and cartoons published by Poposition Press. Rosston Meyer<\/em> and his brother Marc Meyer<\/em> worked on this project together and successfully crowdfunded it on Kickstarter.<\/p>\n Rosston, who’s representing Poposition Press, answered some questions we asked him about The Pop-Up Art Book<\/em> and his work as a paper engineer.<\/p>\n BPUB<\/strong> \u2013 How did your love for pop-up books started? BPUB<\/strong> \u2013 What’s your history with paper and paper engineering? BPUB<\/strong> \u2013 Do you have any plans or offers for higher volumes and more commercial titles? As far as quantity, moving forward the artist books will have runs of at least 1000 copies (just like The Pop Up Art Book\u2019s<\/em> run), and possibly 2500 copies.<\/p>\n BPUB<\/strong> \u2013 Who are your favorite and most inspiring popup book authors or paper engineers? Another paper engineer I have a lot of respect for is Roger Culbertson<\/em>. I initially met Roger back in Florida around 2005, when I had some interest in pop-ups but no solid ideas or plans on what to do. Roger showed me all sorts of books and promotional items he had worked on and I was amazed by what could be done with paper. Fast forward about ten year after I\u2019ve put a few books out on my own, and Roger and I have worked together on a commercial pop-up project for an agency in Singapore. He\u2019ll be one of the engineers on the commercial book I previously mentioned.<\/p>\n Finally, David Carter<\/em> is another favorite engineer of mine, especially with the artistic shapes found in his One Red Dot<\/a> series of books. I find those books to be very interesting with the use of primarily colors and simple shapes, and how he\u2019s designed interactivity into those book (finding the One Red Dot or 600 black spots<\/a>, for example) David is one of the first people in the pop-up book world that I got in contact with when starting to make my own books and he\u2019s been very helpful and supportive in many ways. He too will be one of the engineers in the aforementioned book.<\/p>\n BPUB<\/strong> \u2013 What’s the most difficult\/technical spread you have ever made and why?The interview<\/h2>\n
\nRM<\/strong> \u2013 Like many people, I had a few pop-up books as a kid. But it was when I was a teenager and I got a copy of Robert Sabuda\u2019s<\/em> Alice in Wonderland book that I was first really amazed by a pop-up book and had the thought to one day make one myself.<\/p>\n
\nRM<\/strong> \u2013 I had a loose idea to make a pop-up with some of the artists I was a fan of from the comic book and designer toy worlds, but that idea sat with me for about fifteen years before I really did anything with it. It was kind of one of those things I would talk about here and there, but didn’t actually do anything with. That was until 2013 when I started working with Jim Mahfood<\/em> on what would become my first pop-up book, Pop Up Funk<\/em>. My brother Marc and I worked together on that book, both designing and then assembling 100 copies, so that was really my first foray into the world of paper art and pop-up books. There were a lot of unknowns with that project from: cost per book, time involved to assemble a copy, and how to best make the pop-ups work. After that book was done and released, I knew that I wanted to make another book. But I had to look at getting it mass produced in a professional pop-up assembly factory, which is what happened with the follow up book, The Pop Up Art Book<\/em>.<\/p>\n
\nRM<\/strong> \u2013 Yes, starting now in 2016, I have a few art books planned similar to the ones that Poposition has already released, as well as a more commercial book focused on just one subject. I\u2019m working with a handful of different paper engineers on this upcoming project and look forward to seeing what everyone involved comes up with, and how it all comes together. Look for an announcement on this book the first few months of 2016, and hopefully a release in the summertime.<\/p>\n
\nRM<\/strong> \u2013 I would say one of my favorite paper engineers would have to be Matthew Reinhart<\/em>, because the work that he puts out book after book just gets more impressive as time goes one. The flip style effect found in his Transformers book is just amazing to me.<\/p>\n
\nRM<\/strong> \u2013 That would be the “Onna Bune 1” spread, which was the special page that came with Junko Mizuno\u2019s<\/em> Artist Editions of The Pop Up Art Book. It was the most difficult page I\u2019ve done because there were so many small pieces to extract from the original art, and I feel that the final pop-up version is in a way better than the original in that it truly gives the sense of a full scene with the boat visible on top of the ocean, compared to the original art which has a lot going on.<\/p>\n\n\t\t