I was in Chicago last weekend visiting my Also partners Matt and Jenny, who also happen to be my best friends. They know exactly what I like and took me on a little excursion to this amazing architectural bookstore, Prairie Avenue Bookshop. Apparently it’s Chicago’s largest design bookstore. It was really big but most of it was full of architecture books which don’t really interest me as much. They did have a small section devoted to design books which is where Jenny found me this book. It’s a book that teaches you how to make interesting pop-ups. Some of them are really simple, a few cuts and folds. Others are ridiculous. The book was really hard to photograph with one hand holding the book open and one holding the camera, so these pictures don’t do it justice. I feel in love with it immediately- a book of blank pages that fold open to reveal a burst of popping color. I splurged on this book ($60), since I was on vacation and since I justified the purchase with the idea that one day this book would come in handy. I don’t know when I will make a pop-up book but when I do it will be so easy- this book comes with a cd full of templates. I also thought it would be hard to find elsewhere since it’s another PIE book. But I found you can get it here.

© Julia Rothman 2007