In the 13th century, Matthew Peris, a monk in England, in order to solve the cumbersome problem of data query, combined religious festival dates with rotating paper plates to embed organs in books for the first time, and he was still excited that this could reduce his workload, perhaps he did not know at the time, because of this small move, what kind of dramatic changes the book industry brought to the book industry.
In 1765, the Englishman Robert Shire brought the "lift-the-flap" technique that has been widely used in scholarship and education since the Middle Ages into the field of children's books. As long as you turn the pages of different parts separately, you can form new images, and in the 80s China had a set of three famous "flipping" books "Seventy-two Changes", "Thirty-Six Changes" and "Eighteen Changes", which realized the transformation spells of Sun Wukong, Zhu Bajie, and Sha Monk by turning pages.
The nearly 100 years from around 1840 to before World War I were the golden age of pop-up book development. Dean & Sons Publishing in the UK invented the technique of "metamorphosis", which can change the original image by a simple pull.
Later, in 1871, because of the popularity of Christmas cards, Raphael Tucker and his family widely used this technique in the field of children's pop-up books, publishing pop-up books of various themes, which became the mainstream of pop-up books at that time.
▲"Summer Surprise" published by Raphael Tucker and his sons
In 1932, when the American Blue Ribbon produced the first pop-up book for Disney, the concept of pop-up book was pioneered. He also published a large number of pop-up books based on traditional fairy tales, and this kind of picture book with cultural pointer significance made the art of bouncing up three-dimensional paper a household name in the United States. To this day, "pop-up" is synonymous with pop-up books in English.
▲"Pinocchio", the world's first pop-up book
After that, people found that pop-up books were more interesting and valuable, and the production of pop-up books was popular in Europe and the United States. Paper masters began to explore more of the presentation of pop-up books. In the middle of the 20th century, the paper master Lothar Megendorf in Munich, Germany, pushed pop-up books to a peak, and the original carousel-style technique gave pop-up book scenes and models, making pop-up books a book with three-dimensional shapes in the true sense, known as the "father of pop-up book publishing".
▲Carousel-style pop-up book "Alibaba and the Forty Thieves"
Although pop-up books have been developed for more than 700 years, there has never been a classification of "paper artist" in the signature of books. It was not until 1960 that the American pop-up book king Valdo Hunt completely changed the pattern of "three-dimensional publishing one-stop", and he subdivided the publishing link to different companies, and the role and value of "paper art" were highlighted and valued. Hunter also invented the title "Paper Engineer," which allowed paper artists to have the same right to authorship books as text authors and illustrators.
After a long period of evolution, the current book is no longer a flat image, it can be composed of kaleidoscopic books through a series of simple or complex organs, and the creativity of books has become more and more boundless, but no matter which one, in the field of design, different types of pop-up books have not been eliminated with time, but have developed towards emphasizing interaction and a variety of exhibition design.
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