Watch The ABCs And 123s Come To Life In These Stunning Pop–Up Books

There are tons of bad pop–up books out there, content to merely sprong, jut, accordion, or bulge. French paper engineer and children's book author Marion Bataille does a different kind of pop–up. She has released a trilogy of books that explore the design of the Roman alphabet and Arabic numerals through the astonishing transformative magic of paper engineering. The first, released in 2006, is ABC3D. In many ways, this book is still her boldest, with every letter in the alphabet given its own spread. Some letters content themselves to merely pop–up in three dimensions, but others morph into other shapes. For example, as you spread open the page for "E," its lowest arm silently withdraws, becoming an "F." "S," in the meantime, features hypnotic pinwheels that spin in the letter's serpentine spiral. "For ABC3D, I wanted to present letters in motion and show through movement how there was a visible dialogue between letters when they were put in alphabetic order," Bataille tells Co.Design.Read Full Story     Continue reading at 'Fast Company'

[ Fast Company | 2013-10-11 00:00:00 UTC ]

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Anna Boiardi's family founded Chef Boyardee more than 70 years ago, spelling their name phonetically to help Americans pronounce it. Now, Boiardi teaches cooking classes and has written Delicious Memories, which Stewart, Tabori & Chang will publish in May. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2011-01-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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