POPYRUS STUDIO, INC.
Cutting Edge Design
Andrew Baron, Paper Engineer
www.popyrus.com
Popyrus Studio, Inc 5 Red Sky Trail Santa Fe, NM 87505 andy@popyrus.com Phone: 505-982-2204 Fax: 505-982-2210
Recipient of the Meggendorfer Prize, top honor for the Paper Engineered book
Original paper engineering, refinements, paste-ups or digital pre-press, and manufacturing support / One
or multiple of each above category. If complete Packaging including manuf. & delivery, “(P)”:
Acuity Annual Report for 2010, an elaborate 7-spread pop-up book featuring innovative design.
Special event pop-up invitation mailing card for Inventor Labs, LLC (2009) (P)
Sony Ericsson pop-up product catalog (© Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB, 2008) Andrew
assembled the four-person engineering team, coordinated production and manufacturing for 7-spread pop-up
book, working on site in New York, Copenhagen and Shenzhen China.
Birdscapes A Pop-up Celebration of Bird Songs in Stereo Sound (Chronicle Books 2008) Team-engineered
book by Renee Jablow and Gene Vosough for the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and Smithsonian Museum of
Natural History. “Grasslands” refinements by Andrew Baron.
Movable Holiday Card for Lowrie, Lando & Anastasi, Cambridge, Mass. (2007-2008) (P)
Scion XD (TOYOTA) Pop-up magazine insert in Filter, BPM and Metropop magazines July-August 2007
ACTIVE GALAXY jumbo pop-up (NASA-Glast teacher project, Global Interprint 2006)
Port Authority movable Custom made for NY/NJ Sr. Executive RFP packets. (Gillespie-McCann Erickson
Worldgroup 2005) (P)
Pop-Up Aesop, Illustrated by folk artist Calef Brown (J. Paul Getty Trust 2005)
Pop-up Umbrella Card. Trade fair, direct mail distribution. (TÜV Rheinland of North America 2005) (P)
A Celebration of Pop-up and Movable Books – Produced by the Robert Sabuda - Reinhart Studio, New York
and Popyrus Studio, Inc. Santa Fe - Andrew Baron with Kyle Olmon, and PLW Manila - Adie Peña & crew
(published by Movable Book Society 2004)
Knick-Knack Paddywhack! - Paul O. Zelinsky, illustrator (Dutton Children’s Books 2002)
Menopop - A menopause pop-up and activity book - Peter Straus, illustrator (Fill ‘er Up 2002)
My Dream Bed - Lauren Child, illustrator (Hodder Stoughton 2001)
My Magic Clock - A digital-to-analog time teaching book with added features (Troll 2001)
The Hobbit - John Howe, illustrator (Harper Festival & Collins Children’s Books 1999)
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Four Feathers in Percy’s Park - Nick Butterworth, illustrator (Collins Children’s Books 1998)
Circus! A Pop-Up Adventure - Meg Davenport/Lisa Werenko (Simon & Schuster 1998)
This Little Piggy (Harper Festival 1997, packaged by White Heat, Ltd.)
Stephen Biesty’s Incredible Pop-up Cross Sections (DK 1996, packaged by White Heat, Ltd.)
Sophie’s Dance Class - Ruth Tilden (Hyperion 1996, packaged by White Heat, Ltd.)
A Kwanzaa Celebration- Nancy Williams / Robert Sabuda (Simon & Schuster 1995, White Heat, Ltd.)
A number of the above titles were published in the US, UK, France, Spain, Italy, Belgium, Norway, Holland,
Netherlands, Brazil, Portugal, Australia, Taiwan, Japan and Sweden.
Notable events:
 2011 Acuity Storybook Year is honored by selection to the prestigious
CLIO Awards Shortlist. Less than one half of 1% of over 10,000
worldwide entries made this list. The book was also judged by the CLIO
Awards to be the best annual report in the United States, and one of the
top four best 2010 annual reports in the world.
 The Cooper-Hewitt National Design Library acquires a copy of Acuity
Storybook Year for their rare books collection (March, 2011).
 2011 The Smithsonian Institution invites Andrew to be a featured
presenter, to present the Acuity Storybook Year, in support of the
Exhibition “Fold, Pull, Pop & Turn”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFUz-hwL9kw
 2008 Sony Ericsson Pop-up Book garners two Gold Medals at Europe’s
prestigious Swedish Design Awards, for the categories of Information
Print and Juror’s Prize.
 Presenter at the Moveable Book Society Fall conferences: Washington DC
2008, Chicago 2006, San Diego, 2004, Milwaukee, 2002, NYC, 2000.
 2007 (In other disciplines): Restored the legendary Maillardet
Automaton, a 200 year-old mechanical figure that draws pictures and
writes poetry, and the historic 1929 RCA Theremin at the Franklin
Institute Science Museum, Philadelphia. See:
http://www.fi.edu/learn/scitech/automaton/automaton.php?cts=instrumentation
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 2004 Recipient of the Movable Book Society’s Meggendorfer Prize, highest
honor for the Paper Engineered book.
 SCBWI Panelist at the Borders Book Festival, Las Cruces, New Mexico,
Spring 2000.
 1999 Received a PRINT Magazine Certificate of Design Excellence for
Circus! A Pop-up Adventure.
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