Where did the idea to create pop-up books come from?
When I was a child the books with pop-up illustrations impressed me a lot. I didn’t have one of my own, so I looked at those in the library and the bookshops. I used to entertain myself by making things out of paper, so I started aiming at creating effects such as pop-up designs. I abandoned the idea for a few years. During the third semester of my designer course (1989) I felt that winning urge, while I was working on a “Framing” project. The name of the project was – “Paper and Cardboard – 3D”. At that point I was drawing sketches of, and was finishing, one or two paper objects per week. I show the best works from my years of education in a YouTube video, which I did this year. Can you remember your first work? And if yes, what was the pop-up like? Unfortunately, I can’t remember. But I still remember how happy I was when I first finished a series of paper objects. I can also recall when in 1990 I had an order from an advertising agency to make bronze casting on a card with a pop-up
