Marion Bataille

Whilst looking at more unconventional ways of using the format of the book I found the works of Marion Bataille. She explores simple concepts using numbers, letters and pop-up in a very elegant way.

The example above is Bataille's book 10. The book both counts up from 1 to 10 and down from 10 to 1 by using pop-up and folding to switch certain elements of the numbers about, 2 becoming 9 and so on. The concept is very simple indeed, but it is done is such a precise way that it comes across as genius.

ABC3D is another of her books that uses similar techniques. In this book however the turn of the page is used to make each letter move, giving it more character. This emphasises the surprise of a page turn. The reader knows which letter is coming next, but they don't know how it will present itself.