Bruce Foster

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.

Exhibitions Year Title Location Notes 2003Pop-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 HistoryAlso included Matthew Reinhart, David Hawcock, Chuck Fischer