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Sally Blakemore
Born
Sally Blakemore

(1947-04-15) April 15, 1947 (age 77)
Odessa, Texas
EducationNorth Texas State University, University of Texas, Austin
Occupation(s)Book artist, paper engineer, artist
Websiteartyprojects.com

Sally Blakemore is a paper engineer and pop-up book packager based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She is best known for NASCAR Pop-up: A Guide to the Sport, which includes two dozen pop-ups and a 12-second sound chip. Blakemore also heads Arty Projects Studio, a pop-up and novelty book packaging company.

Biography

Blakemore has a bachelor’s of art degree in painting and sculpture.[1] She also exhibited with the International Society of Copier Artists.[2]

Blakemore is a self-taught paper engineer. "I bought my first pop-up book in 1979, at the age of thirty-three. Tor Lokvig's paper engineering in Haunted House by Jan Pieńkowski totally intrigued me and made me laugh with glee. I studied each mechanic, took it apart, and put it back together again. It was my education in the making."[3]

As a child, Blakemore, who had dyslexia and synesthesia, could not read at all. According to one interview, she said "I liked to look at the comics and the weather map in the newspaper. It was very humiliating. I could not make the leap from a printed word to the meaning of the word....I could not spell at all and phonetics didn't really make sense....It is so strange that I somehow got into publishing!"[4]

For nearly two years in the 1990s, Blakemore worked as art director for paper engineer' James Diaz's White Heat Ltd. company, where she learn the basics of pop-up and novelty book production.[5][6]

As head of Arty Projects Studio, Blakemore once spent a month in Malaysia overseeing the commercial production of the pop-up book Ancient Dwellings. The first print run was 10,000 books and involved 400 women in hand-assembling the book.[7] One of the company's most successful novelty book is Peek-A-Moo!, a lift the flap book by Marie Torres Cimarusti, with over 390,000 copies in print.[8]

In 2010, Blakemore was the keynote speaker at the Movable Book Society Conference in Portland, Oregon.[9]

Selected bibliography

Pop-up books paper engineered by Sally Blakemore:

Pop-up artists' books by Sally Blakemore:

Books illustrated by Sally Blakemore:

References

  1. ^ Bluemel, Nancy Larson; Taylor, Rhonda Harris (2012). Pop-up books: a guide for teachers and librarians. Santa Barbara, Calif.: Libraries Unlimited. pp. 32–33. ISBN 9781591583981.
  2. ^ "Untitle". The ISCA Quarterly. 7 (1). Fall 1988.
  3. ^ "In Conversation with Sally Blakemore". Movable Stationery: quarterly publication of the Movable Book Society. 17 (4): 1. November 2009.
  4. ^ Olmon, Kyle. "In Conversation with Sally Blakemore". www.kyleolmon.com. Retrieved June 11, 2017.
  5. ^ Bluemel, Nancy Larson; Taylor, Rhonda Harris (2012). Pop-up books : a guide for teachers and librarians. Santa Barbara, Calif.: Libraries Unlimited. pp. 32–33. ISBN 9781591583981.
  6. ^ Steinberg, David (September 27, 1998). "Profitable Pop-Ups". Albuquerque Journal: C6.
  7. ^ Zibart, Rosemary (September 12, 2004). "Books That Go Pop". The Santa Fe New Mexican: E-1.
  8. ^ "In Conversation with Sally Blakemore". Movable Stationery. 17 (4): 2. November 2009.
  9. ^ Rubin, Ellen G. K. (November 2010). "Magic and Passion in Portland". Movable Stationery: Newsletter of the Movable Book Society. 18 (4): 18–19.

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