Take a biology major, mix in a portion of art training and a large serving of creativity, and what do you get? A pop-up engineer! \u201cPop-up\u201d Engineer Take a biology major, mix in a portion of art training and a large serving of creativity, and what do you get? A pop-up engineer! That\u2019s the combination that resulted in a successful career for author, illustrator and paper engineer, Matthew Reinhart. Reinhart began his Clemson experience with intentions of becoming a physician, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":12726,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[21],"tags":[171,2069,2277,2283,2437,3042,3298],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-12722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumniprofiles","tag-alumni-profile","tag-new-york-times","tag-pop-up-books","tag-pratt-institute","tag-robert-sabuda","tag-tomie-depaola","tag-winter-2015"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/01\/Profile-Matt-Reinhart.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12722"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=12722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThat\u2019s the combination that resulted in a successful career for author, illustrator and paper engineer, Matthew Reinhart.
\nReinhart began his Clemson experience with intentions of becoming a physician, but he had always enjoyed art and took art classes to build up his portfolio. After graduation, he realized that medicine was not his true calling and took off to New York City.
\nReinhart attended Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, majoring in industrial design, with a concentration in toy design. His focus soon shifted to becoming a paper engineer. More precisely, a pop-up engineer.
\nCutting, folding and taping small pieces of paper to make model after model to create dancing princesses, open-jawed dinosaurs and flying super heroes became his passion.
\nReinhart apprenticed with renowned pop-up bookmaker Robert Sabuda, and soon they were collaborating.\u00a0Reinhart made his first big breaks into the pop-up world with The Pop-Up Book Of Phobias, Animal Popposites<\/em> and The Ark.<\/em>\u00a0Many book collaborations with Sabuda followed, including a trilogy of New York Times<\/em> best-selling Encyclopedia Prehistorica<\/em> and the series Encyclopedia Mythologica<\/em>. He co-authored Mommy?<\/em> with the ever-popular Maurice Sendak, and Brava Strega Nona<\/em> with famous writer and illustrator, Tomie DePaola.
\nReinhart\u2019s solo pop-up books include The Jungle Book, Cinderella: A Pop-Up Fairy Tale, The Pop-Up Book of Nursery Rhymes<\/em>, and STAR WARS: Pop-Up Guide to the Galaxy, DC Super Heroes Transformers: The Ultimate Pop-Up Universe<\/em> and Game of Thrones: A Pop-Up Guide to Westeros<\/em>.
\nHe continues to work and live in New York City, cutting, taping and folding paper into pop-up masterpieces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"