Movable Stationery Vol 17 No 1 Feb 2009

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MOWABLE STATIONERY Frankfurt Book Fair 2008 Part Two

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positioned yourself before a webcam and saw yourself on

a screen. When you opened the book you still had a flat book

but on the in your hands screen you appeared to have opened a pop-up book with -

Theo Gielen The Netherlands It is always difficult at a fair as big as the Frankfurt Book Fair to get a full picture of trends. However, it struck

several of my professional colleagues, with whom I discussed the subject, that this year there were many very large, voluminous books. They are hard to lift, requiring a large, extra solid table to be laid on to turn over the pages.

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warehouse scaffolding to store them on, rather than normal bookcases. I have no idea why this format appeared so

popular this year. And, happily, the tendency hasn't yet affected pop-up book production. Certainly the output of the Sabuda/Reinhart Studio grows thicker and thicker (needing a special way of gluing together the pages with an extra opening at the Revolving spine-end did you spot it?). ery +

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recent Birdscapes, published by Chronicle Books, also makes a claim on shelf space. But they are, like the heavy-weight Neiman Marcus

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there was even demonstrated a pop-up book without pop-ups! At the stand of the Munich based Ars Edition, a brand new format was shown that puzzled and surprised everyone that crowded the stand to wonder. There you took a flat picture book in your hands without any pop-ups at all

unfolding"paper" artwork. And, when moving the book hands you saw changes in the threedimensional pages oftthe book on the screen! The project was still in the paper-andvirtual dummy stage, not yet available for the trade (not even a title), but its "magic" manipulative techniques were highly intriguing. Will this be the future ofthe pop-up book: a 12-page paperback to store a wealth of threedimensionality without amassing paper between the pages? It would definitely end storage problems for the collector. in

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The Movable Book Society has moved! P.O. Box 9190 Salt Lake City, Utah

84109-0190 New titles at the up-market packagers For the moment, however, we shall return to the traditional pop-up output announced for 2009 and 20100 that was seen displayed in real paper books or dummies at the stands of the major packagers.

Graham Brown fr om Jacobs Wells tooy showed a new book entitled 6 Pop Opposites with pull-tabs and pop-ups that looked promising, using various letter types and colorful graphics A dummy-in-progress of How Many More. announced as a sequel to Ron van der Meer's How Many (just published with variant cover designs in French Continued on page 2 Toad go? Up

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