David A. Carter : White Noise and Blue 2 pop-up books

I've never seen pop-up books quite like White Noise and Blue2 - two children's books by David Carter.

White Noise is the latest book from David Carter which explores sounds and colours, using intricate shapes and amazingly complex paper mechanics. The book creeks and groans as you turn from page to page, there are even pages with musical parts that drag across patterns of cut paper and scratching across rough opaque paper. Click here to see White Noise on the Tate online shop >

Blue2 is a more playful book. As you turn through the pop-up sculptures the book becomes a game to find the 'blue 2' (number 2). Each page turns into a riddle giving you clues to find the next blue 2 hidden within the pop-up paper. Click here to see Blue 2 on the Tate online shop >

Both books are great fun, and will astound anyone who picks them up, I highly recommend having a look at the real thing as the pictures don't do them justice.

10 by Marion Bataille : Pop up book

10 is the new pop up book by Marion Bataille recently published by Tate Publishing.

10 explores the nature of counting. Imagine counting to ten with your fingers and then back again, we normally see one number as we count but we're actually forgetting the negative / mirror number on our fingers. So three becomes eight and four becomes seven. Bataille shows this thought process by using the pop up technoque to blend from number to number in a seamless way.

The book comes in a rather nice red box sheath and is a very solid and satisfying thing to hold as you flip through the pages.

See the numbers change in 10 by Marion Bataille:




Marion Bataille has previously published the hugely successful ABC3D - another amazing pop up book of the depicting the alphabet as you've never seen it before! Take a look at this: