This article was first published on Nolisoli.ph
by Yazhmin Malajito
A 22-year-old paper engineer from Calamba, Laguna received Honorable Mention for the 2018 Emerging Paper Engineer Prize by The Movable Book Society earlier this month.
“Popfolio” is Amy Nayve’s interactive portfolio with “flaps and pull tabs, featuring the best of (her) college projects.”
Nayve just graduated from De La Salle College of Saint Benilde last March with a BS Industrial Design degree. Between then and now, she’s been a freelance designer.
Just like the pop-up books she engineers, “finding out about the competition for the Emerging Paper Engineers was synchronicity working for me,” says Nayve. Scrolling through Facebook, she learned about The Movable Book Society and that they give awards for pop-up book designers and enthusiasts at their biennial conference.
The Movable Book Society is a 25-year-old nonprofit organization based in Utah for collectors, artists, and producers of pop-up books.
“It was just the right timing that one of the award categories was open to undergraduate and graduate students [worldwide]. I decided to enter two of my works in that category and Popfolio got the Honorable Mention,” she tells Nolisoli.ph.
The Emerging Paper Engineer Prize is given to undergraduate or graduate students worldwide whose projects must include pop-up or movable structures created during a course of college study.
Pumapapel Pop-Up Design Studio 