Daisy May Johnson

Three amazing pop ups

I love Pop Up Books. I really do. And these from Jenny Chen possess an almost ineffable beauty. The image below is from Colossal, a blog which is stuffed full of visual inspiration on a daily basis. I gather from the blog post that these are mock-ups and if the mock-ups are this beautiful, then I can’t help but think that the book itself will be superb.

Image from http://www.thisiscolossal.com

Other favourite pop up books of mine at the moment include this yummy title by Marion Bataille. ABC3D is luscious and I love the fluidity through the entire book.  It’s so brilliantly tactile it makes me drool with longing.

On a comics book theme, this from DC Comics is a few years old now but I’m very much marvelling (badumtish) at the construction behind it. This Wonder Woman spread is superb and I love how all the elements on this page combine to reinforce our impression of the character: 

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  1. Alex Baugh Avatar
    Alex Baugh

    I also love pop up books and have quite a nice collection, but I love the alphabet book and the DC book you show here and will have to look for them to add to my others.

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    1. nobodyjones Avatar
      nobodyjones

      I’d actually be really interested if you have any specifically historical pop up books? I remember having a glorious middle ages pop up which was just lovely – had elaborate castle breakdowns and everything. It’s on Amazon but it’s massively expensive at the moment.

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      1. Alex Baugh Avatar
        Alex Baugh

        The only ones I have that could be called historical pop up books are Castles and one called In the Beginning, which is the story of Genesis. I know there are others but can’t think of their names. If I do, I will let you know.

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        nobodyjones

        Thanks 🙂

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