I must say that I have always loved pop-up books; they’re pretty damn clever — and are a category or genre of their own. Recently my interest have been rekindled by reading pop-up children’s books at my kids’ bedtimes.  Sadly, my little boy is in the middle of the terrible twos and so likes to destroy anything that has flaps or pop-ups.  Oh well.

Maybe when they’re older, and can appreciate the art of the pop-up, I will be able to get them something fabulous — possibly something like the works of Marion Bataille — check out www.abc3dbook.com/.

The abc3d book is just wonderful, despite it’s simplicity, it remains creative and ingenious.

embedded video from youtube.com:

This is Marion’s first UK publication, so I wish her all the best. It’s available on Amazon.co.uk

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Libro pop-up superbello che mi ha regalato la Fede a Berlino si intitola  ABC3D.

Quest’ altro è fantastico si intitola: “600 Black Spots” ed é sempre dello stesso autore di “one red dot” il bravissimo David Carters.

ABC3D is a 3D typography book by Marion Bataille. I don’t know if it’s just me, but I’ve never seen anything quite like it before. So, this post is for those like me. Hold on to your jaws, ladies and gentlemen!
A 3D presentation of each letter is presented in the most creative way possible.

p.s: i like the music as well. : )

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Some months ago, I was surprised by the video of the book “ABC3D”, posted on youtube to present the book by Marion Bataille, a French graphic designer who dedicated her talent to make an alphabet-pop up book that became one of the most popular (you can see the video here).

Today I would like to show another illustrated book, “Bruits“, published in France by Thierry Magnier, where the main character, Louis, with his like-a-ear head, is trying to escape from the confusion and noise of the city, discovering new sounds all over the world and finally losing himself in a discoteque full of music and friends.

 At first sight, I was attracted by the collage style and the use of graphic elements in the cover. Marion simply evokes the presence of sounds by using the circles, influences by comic but not only.

The enormous head of Louis seems to be simply big but we can easly understand that is a great ear, which means an extra ability to listen to what is happening around. The equivalence is immediate: with the big ear he can listend to every sound and every sound is stronger than usual.

Marion plays with letters and sizes through all the book, and also colors become a part of the expression of sounds in fonts. And following this, objects are built by their own noise, that means that the same noise is what makes objects (buildings, cars, bikes etc…) real. The text, the few words we can find, is simply a plus, but it isn’t the main part of the book. This is a complete visual and graphic story, with clear influences from cinema, graphic design and artistic experiments as we can see for example in Dadaism and old cartoons and comics. 

As Marion had been working for different newspapers and publishing houses, it’s clear that she’s calling to her own experience and technical baggage to make this interesting book. And as you can see in these pages, there shouldn’t be another font for the cow than this one, used for milk boxes, and the 80’s body type of the last pages is perfect to build the the ground, the walls and the sounds of a disco. 

It’s really interesting this work on fonts, illustrations and sounds. And don’t lose the end page! It’s a good eye exercise…

Questo è il mio ultimo acquisto da amazon.com.

Un libro spassoso e che consiglio agli amanti del lettering, della grafica e del pop-up.

ABC3D!!!

This is great.

http://www.abc3dbook.com/

it’s amazing-
loveeeeeeeeeeeeeee it!!!
hope there are more letters in the alphabet…want to see more-

Ich weiß nicht ob es an Trier allgemein oder dem unkompetenten Personal in der Mayerschen Buchhandlung liegt, aber selbst nach einem netten Hinweis finde ich eines des besten Bücher des letzten Jahres immernoch an der falschen Stelle. ABC3D, wer es sich in Trier kaufen will, muss in die Kleinkinderabteilung gehen, denn dort gehören Bücher nunmal hin mit denen man das ABC lernen kann.

Update after Break.

Das stimmt eigentlich schon. Bin mal wieder davon ausgegangen, dass die Leute die hier rumfliegen das Buch kennen. Also hier nochmal der Link und Merci an “amnisinspirare”.

Grüße vom Prenzlauer Berg.

Notable Children’s Books of 2008

WABI SABI
By Mark Reibstein. Illustrated by Ed Young.
Little, Brown & Company Books for Young Readers. $16.99. (Ages 3 to 6)

In this book of ingeniously layered text — both narrative and haiku — and gorgeous collage art, a cat named Wabi Sabi sets out to discover the meaning of her name. Chosen by The Times as a Best Illustrated Children’s Book of 2008.

THE KINGDOM ON THE WAVES
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume 2.
By M. T. Anderson.
Candlewick Press. $22.99. (Ages 14 and up)

This sequel completes the story of race and revolution told in “The Pox Party.” As Octavian Nothing, escaped from slavery, joins up with British forces in Boston, his story encompasses both the comic and the tragic with sweeping ambition.

SUNRISE OVER FALLUJAH
By Walter Dean Myers
Scholastic Press. $17.99. (Ages 12 and up)

An idealistic young soldier lands in Iraq’s deadly hall of mirrors, in a kind of sequel to Myers’s 1988 Vietnam novel, “Fallen Angels.” In this powerful new book, laced with violence but also warmth and humor, the narrator faces humanitarian missions that turn into deadly ambushes (a detonator is concealed in a tub of flour) and bears witness to the killing of friend and enemy alike.

THE HUNGER GAMES
By Suzanne Collins
Scholastic Press. $17.99. (Ages 12 and up)

A brilliantly plotted tale that begins after North American society has been decimated by climate change and war. In this world, children fight to the death in ritual games — a form of both repression and entertainment in the country of Panem. When her younger sister is picked to compete, Katniss Everdeen, a skilled hunter, makes the fateful choice to take her place.

LITTLE BROTHER
By Cory Doctorow
Tor/Tom Doherty Associates. $17.95. (Ages 13 and up)

A near-future terrorist attack hits San Francisco, and Marcus Yallow, 17, playing hooky from high school, is detained in the crackdown that follows. The experience leads him into an ingenious program of resistance and civil rights activism in a novel that is at once an entertaining thriller, a thoughtful polemic and a practical handbook of digital-age self-defense.

ABC3D
By Marion Bataille
Neal Porter/Roaring Brook Press. $19.95. (Ages 5 and up)

A simple but sophisticated idea animates this small, chunky pop-up book, which does wonders with the letters A through Z. In Bataille’s paper engineering, B doubles as 3, C flips over to become a D, U is a perfect pa­rabola, and so on, all in bold black, white and red. This stylish and interactive work of art can be read again and again.

Read more…

ABC3D – tai 3D knyga, kurią mielai pravers tiek vaikas, tiek suaugęs žmogus. Išties nuostabi kūrybos ir gamybos direktorių simbiozė:

Šią knygą galite užsisakyti amazon.com tik už 12$. Skubėkite, nes dolerio kaina nuolat kyla

ABC3D

By Marion Bataille

“One of the most delightful and innovative pop-up books I have ever seen.”–Robert Sabuda Prepare to be amazed. From the lenticular cover that changes with the angle of your hands all the way to the Z, ABC3D is as much a work of art as it is a pop-up book. Each of the 26 three-dimensional letters move and change before your eyes. C turns into D with a snap. M stands at attention. X becomes Y with a flick of the wrist. And then there’s U…Boldly conceived and brilliantly executed with a striking black, red, and white palette, this is a book that readers and art lovers of all ages will treasure for years to come.

Almost all of the reviewers have commented on how well this book reveals its letters: smooth, elegant, tough enough for young fingers and interesting enough for old foggies like myself. I loved it!

This book reinforces my personal experience. The letters seen one by one are fascinating, and you can enjoy them no matter which page you start out on. Lovely pop up book!

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Yes, I’m a sucker. I saw a cool blog post on boingboing.net about a pop up book. And I bought it.  The Internet is evil. But awesome.  As is this pop up book. It’s a totally unique pop up book that just has all the letters of the alphabet. You can watch the video below and you won’t even need to buy the book. Or you can buy the book since it’s only like $16 on Amazon.  Either way, check it out, it’s pretty sweet.   Good gift for the kiddie in your life. Or the adult who acts like a kid (like me).

Here are two videos of amazing pop-up books!  The first video shows how a “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea” pop-up book was engineered. The second shows an incredible new pop-up book called ABC3D (available from Amazon for only $12!!)  – this same video was posted a while back, but since I just bought it I thought it’d be good to show it again. 

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I love typography. And I love popup books. It doesn’t get any better than this.

just got this in the mail yesterday. the amount of thought and work that went into producing this book is amazing. somehow it still costs under $20.

Släpps om en månad…

Nyskapande bok med “pop-up-3D” typografi,
hela alfabetet i 3D, detta är den enda present
jag har tänkt ge mig själv som födelsedags-
present i år. Den finns till försäljning från 14
oktober men det går redan nu att…
förboka via : amazon.com.
filmen : YouTube.com

Esse vídeo apresenta o livro ABC3D, de Marion Bataille. O livro é um pop-up book, que tem como intuito compor tridimensionalmente as 26 letras do alfabeto. A autora mergulha na questão formal da tipografia para construir seu alfabeto, utilizando-se de recursos como espelhamento, aproveitamento de um tipo para construir outro e deslocamento de partes do tipo. As soluções encontradas geram um resultado visual muito interessante.

À venda aqui, por módicos US$ 13! :]

Quien no ama a este tipo de libros? desde niños convivimos con algunos y en lo personal desde entonces me fascinan, y no me dejaran de encantar, hace algunos meses vi este libro magnifico, que espero que mis amigos ya esten preordenando para regalarmelo jiji

y lo retomo por que hoy, gracias a un comentario de alguien que firma como Altoparlante me encontre este videito bastante bueno, un grupo que no conocia, pero que su video me fascino, dirigido por Price James, se los comparto:

Y ustedes que libros Pop-up adoran?

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* Actualizo el tema, y es que en los comentarios nuestro amigo Héctor Ugalde nos deja un excelente blog de la coleccionq ue el ha ido armando de libro pop-up y como casi no leemos la seccion de comentarios, aqui les dejo el enlace en el post principal para uqe lo visiten, altamente recomendable: http://librospopup.blogspot.com/

checkout this youtube video of the ABC3D book