John Strejan

John Strejan was a children's pop-up book artist and paper engineer.

John Strejan
BornJohn Strejan
(1933-03-07)March 7, 1933
Detroit, Michigan
DiedMarch 26, 2003(2003-03-26) (aged 70)
Los Angeles, California
NicknameSilverblade
NationalityAmerican

Biography

Strejan was born in Detroit, Michigan on March 7, 1933, and died in Los Angeles, California on 26 March, 2003.[1]

He grew up in Portland, Oregon, and attended Portland State University. He began his career in the city as an illustrator and designer in advertising, moving to Los Angeles in 1958. As well as working for advertising agencies, he was art director for Teen magazine and Bullock's department store.[1] In 1965 he began working on the design of pop-up books for Elgin Davis at Graphics International.[2] He went on to participate in the creation of more than 50 books, as a freelance author, illustrator and designer of pop-up mechanisms.[3] He also created pop-up models of the Cinderella Castle and Getty Centre, designed posters for Toy Story, and is credited as a production designer on a short animated film, Pinocchio (1987).[4]

"You have to think like a child, that's your marketplace, to think like a child would think," said freelance paper engineer John Strejan, 54, known by his peers as "the Blade," "Silverblade" or "the Maestro" for his masterful skill with an X-Acto knife, the tool of the paper engineer's trade.

— Chris Christensen, Los Angeles Times[5]

Compared to earlier pop-ups, Strejan's work was noted for a dynamic use of motion, using the unfolding of the mechanism to animate the design.[2]

Works
  • Charles M. Schulz; John Strejan (1984). Snoopy and the Twelve Days of Christmas. Determined Productions. OCLC 12513772.
  • Ron Van der Meer; Alan McGowan; Borje Svensson; John Strejan; David Rosendale (1984). Sailing Ships. Viking. p. 16. OCLC 11434060.
  • Michaël Welply; Dawn Bentley; John Strejan (1998). Choo-Choo Charlie, The Littletown Train. Kansas City, MO: Piggy Toes. OCLC 39399495.
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References
  1. "John Strejan, 70; Paper Engineer Worked on Series of Pop-Up Books". Los Angeles Times. 15 April 2003.
  2. "Epitaph: John Strejan". Los Angeles Magazine. June 2003.
  3. Lipson, Eden Ross (17 April 2003). "John Strejan, 70, Wizard of the Pop-Up Book". The New York Times.
  4. "John Strejan". IMDb. Retrieved 10 August 2017.
  5. Christensen, Chris (10 December 1987). "For These Engineers, It's Only a Pop-Up Paper World". Los Angeles Times.
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