# Ib Penick

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{{Infobox person
| name         = Ib Penick 
| birth_date  = {{birth date|1930|05|11|mf=yes}}<ref>{{cite web|last1=Penick|first1=Ib|title=U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014|url=http://search.ancestry.com|website=Ancestry.com|accessdate=13 December 2016}}</ref>
| birth_place   = Odense, Denmark
| death_date  = {{death date and age|1998|04|21|1930|05|11}}
| death_place = [Wilmington, North Carolina](/source/Wilmington%2C_North_Carolina), U.S.
| education   = 
| occupation   = Paper Engineer, Inventor
| spouse      = 
| children     =  3
| website      = 
}}

'''Ib Penick''' (1930&ndash;1998), a native of Denmark, was known as "the creative mind behind the resurgence of pop-up children's books in the 1960s and 1970s.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Breslin|first1=Meg|title=Ib Penick, 67, Designer Of Modern Pop-up Books|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/1998/04/24/ib-penick-67-designer-of-modern-pop-up-books/|access-date=13 December 2016|work=tribunedigital-chicagotribune|date=April 24, 1998}}</ref> In his career, Penick designed more than 130 children's books, including ''Star Wars: a Pop-up Book'', which sold more than a million copies.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Kathy|first1=Schaeffer|title=Pop-up Paper Designs Keep Him Hoppin'|issue=Daily Herald Suburban Chicago|date=September 2, 1984|page=32}}</ref> Penick related to one reporter, "...there are only about 100 folds and tricks to [his paper engineering] trade. It's like playing a piano. You have only a certain number of keys, but it's the combinations that make the difference."<ref>{{cite news|last1=Schaeffer|first1=Kathy|title=Daily Herald Suburban Chicago, September 2, 1984, Page 32|url=https://newspaperarchive.com/us/illinois/arlington-heights/daily-herald-suburban-chicago/1984/09-02/page-32?tag=ib+penick&rtserp=tags/ib-penick|accessdate=13 December 2016|date=2 September 1984}}</ref>

==Biography==
In the 1960s Penick joined [Waldo Hunt](/source/Waldo_Hunt) at Graphics International, a firm that created pop-up books, including a series of titles for [Random House](/source/Random_House) and other publishers.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Breslin|first1=Meg|title=Ib Penick, 67, Designer Of Modern Pop-up Books|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/1998/04/24/ib-penick-67-designer-of-modern-pop-up-books/|access-date=13 December 2016|work=tribunedigital-chicagotribune|date=April 24, 1998}}</ref>  Penick was the "premier paper engineer" for the Random House pop-up titles, with Tor Lokvig as his protege.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Sterling|first1=Kate|title=An Interview with the Paterfamilias of Pop-up. Part 1 of 3. Waldo Hunt.|journal=Movable Stationery|date=1 January 1993|volume=10|issue=1|page=15|url=http://library.si.edu/digital-library/book/movablestation1012002mova|accessdate=13 December 2016}}</ref> According to Gerald Harrison, a former president of the children's books division at Random House, Penick "was really responsible for creating the whole world we lived in. With the advent of the Random House line, a whole industry was created and the very first ones were created by Ib."<ref>{{cite news|last1=Breslin|first1=Meg|title=Ib Penick, 67, Designer Of Modern Pop-up Books|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/1998/04/24/ib-penick-67-designer-of-modern-pop-up-books/|access-date=13 December 2016|work=tribunedigital-chicagotribune}}</ref>

Penick and Hunt later sold Graphics International to [Hallmark Cards](/source/Hallmark_Cards) in 1966.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Sterling|first1=Kate|title=An Interview with the Paterfamilias of Pop-up. Part 1 of 3.|journal=Movable Stationery|date=1 January 1993|volume=10|issue=1|page=15|url=http://library.si.edu/digital-library/book/movablestation1012002mova}}</ref>

==Selected bibliography==
The following is a sample of the pop-up books paper engineered by Ib Penick:<ref>{{cite book|last1=Montanaro|first1=Ann R|title=Pop-up and movable books: a bibliography.|date=1993 |publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=0810837285|pages=647–948|oclc=62681468 |language=English}}</ref>
* {{Citation
 | last1=Penick | first1=Ib| last2=Barlowe| first2=Wayne
 | year=1978
 | title=Star Wars: A Pop-up Book
 | publisher=Random House
 | oclc=16436266
}}
* {{Citation
| last1=Penick | first1=Ib| last2=Forte | first2=Joseph
 | year=1986
 | title=The Story of the Statue of Liberty: with movable illustrations in three dimensions
 | publisher=Holt, Rinehart and Winston
 | oclc=13663592
}}
* {{Citation
 | last1=Penick | first1=Ib| last2=Swan| first2=Curt
 | last3= Oksner | first3=Bob  | last4= Serpe | first4=Jerry
 | year=1979
 | title=Superman: a pop-up book
 | publisher=Random House
 | oclc=6014334
}}
* {{Citation
  | last1=Penick | first1=Ib| last2=Sondern | first2=Ferd
 | year=1974
 | title=Who are the people in your neighborhood?
 | publisher=Random House and Children's Television Workshop
 | oclc=2294774
}}

==Patents==
Penick held several patents in the area of paper engineering, camera design and packaging, including:
# '''{{US patent|4784314 A}}'''– Decorative paperboard boxes
# '''{{US patent|4313270 A}}'''– Item with pivoting pop-up
# '''{{US patent|4337589 A}}'''– Method of making hinged pop-up items
# '''{{US patent|4349973 A}}'''– Pop-ups and methods of making
# '''{{US patent|4146983 A}}'''– Promotional pop-up and method of making
# '''{{US patent|5022681 A}}'''– Paper pop-up devices and method of making the same
# '''{{US patent|4192596 A}}'''– Camera with improved shutter arrangement
# '''{{US patent|3650194 A}}'''– Disposable Camera
# '''{{US patent|4057813 A}}'''– Pocket sized camera

==References==
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