Paper engineer and pop-up book king Robert Sabuda is featured in a 4+ minute video on The Wall Street Journal’s Digital Network.
Sabuda chats with Robert Hughes about his new Christmas book “Winter in White” and his new larger work “The Chronicles of Narnia.”
Highlights:
Pop-up books are unique in that they are still completely hand-made. No matter where a pop-up book is manufactured, Sabuta’s are made in Thailand and China, it can only be assembled by hand.
Sabuda, along with his partner and fellow paper engineer Matthew Reinhardt, work with a team of 5 paper engineers.
Sabuda says that hardest part of creating pop-up books is not the pop-up part but the creating of a pop-up that can withstand the repeated opening and closing. The closing is the key.
Small projects like “Winter in White can take up to 4 months to complete while books like “The Chronicles of Narnia” can take up to a year to produce.
Next up – Peter Pan
Interview with Sabuta and Reinhardt in the Guardian May 2006