About
Welcome to NC Paperworks!
This is the home of paper engineer, paper artist, author and illustrator Nicolas Codron.
We design and handcraft artist’s books in very limited editions: pop-up and movable books, and books in all shapes and sizes (leporello books, tunnel-books, etc.).
Our artist books are present in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York!
We also self-publish our own work, and collaborate with talented artists – illustrators and photographers – to bring their worlds into stunning pop-up artworks and movable books.
You can see our books and artworks in the Bibliography below or in the Shop.
We also design pop-ups for commissioned works (books, cards, LP-covers, objects, etc.). Including your project. Let’s talk about it.
We provide and hold ready-made or order-made pop-up making workshops for children, families, adults and institutions, and pop-up engineering formations for dedicated adults, all the way from your idea to the mass-manufactured product and any point in between. Whatever your need is, we are here for you.
And among other things we do design. Such as regular book design, packaging, or front-end website design. So if you like what you’re seeing or are simply curious, just send us a word.
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Follows a bibliography of self-published collaborations, pop-up and movable artist’s books, mainstream publications, and selected commissioned works.
Bibliography
Collaboration & Solo Self-Published Works
Chats en Toits, Calligramme d’Apollinaire, WestWorld Mind Maze, Castlevania Pop-up Maze (2022)
One cute leporello book with lots of cats on Paris’ rooftops, Chats en Toits, and three dashing new pop-up cards: one Picture-Poem, one Maze and one Map.
Each is limited to 300 numbered copies.
See in the Shop ➔
La Tour des Horreurs (2021)
A free VIP guided tour of the Tower of Horrors: what a splendid opportunity!
Or is it really?!…
A very original, beautiful (and perfectly harmless?) laser-cut pop-up book! In detail here.
In the Artists’ Books collection of the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) Fleet Library! among other renowned public and private collections.
See in the Shop ➔
John Tenniel’s Alice in Wonderland (2021)
This special miniature book features Tenniel’s original engraved illustrations, with quotes from Lewis Carroll’s novel. Various limited editions, with pop-up extras. Further info here.
See in the Shop ➔
Post Hiroshige / Pop-Up (2021)
With Australian photographer Rohan Hutchinson.
A series of 3 pop-up cards reworking Hutchinson’s photographs of Japanese architecture. 100 copies each, numbered and signed.
See in the Shop ➔
Artist’s Books
Steps (2017-2021)
A very limited series of artist-handcrafted pop-up architectural kiri-origamic leporello artist books-objects:
Steps, Steps 1.5, Steps: Baby Steps, Steps 2: More Steps, Night Steps, Small Night Steps, and several variations and related ‘offprints’ and items.
One to twenty copies for each main installment, all numbered and signed.
In the collections of the NYC MET, among other renowed institutional and private collections. More info here!
See in the Shop ➔
Mainstream Pop-up Books
1984 (2021)
By Xavier Coste. Publisher: Sarbacane.
The final spread of Coste’s graphic novel adaptation of George Orwell’s 1984 is a grand pop-up scene I designed and engineered. Only in the first printing. 10,000 copies sold out in one week! (ISBN: 9782377315116)
Awards: Prix Albert-Uderzo 2021, Prix BD Fnac/France Inter 2022.
Mademoiselle Mangetou (2020)
Illustration: Julie Colombet. Publisher: Sarbacane.
Originally a recto-verso leporello artist’s book reworked for mainstream publishing. A caterpillar eats all kind of unexpected things to find something she likes! (ISBN: 9782377314058)
Commissioned Works (selection)
Rone ∙ Time ∙ The Clock Room ∙ Pop-up Paper Tableau (2022)
Designed for Australian street-artist Rone (Tyrone Wright)’s massive Time installation & exhibition at Flinders Street Station, Melbourne, Australia (10/2022-04/2023). Contact me for more information.
Rêve de Lunétoile / Souhait nocturne (2022)
Jewelry design and a presentation card designed for Akiko Ota’s Rosée Lunaire / decoupage in Japan.
Galerie Jacques Lacoste – 2022 New Year Card
New Year pop-up card-object designed for the incredible Galerie Jacques Lacoste in Paris.
© Hervé Lewandowski / Jean Royère Estate / ADAGP / Adélaïde Laurent-Bellue / Nicolas Codron ncpaperworks.com
Events – Exhibitions
2023
Salon du Festival du Livre animé de Cluny
du 22 au 24 septemble 2023
à Cluny (71)
2022
Dans la Tour des Horreurs et autres livres de Nicolas Codron
Exposition, du samedi 3 au samedi 17 décembre 2022
à la Bibliothèque Municipale de Vaujours (Maison du Temps Libre, 93410)
Accès libre aux heures d’ouverture au public (mardi et vendredi 13:45-16:45, mercredi et samedi 9:45-11:45 et 13:45-16:45)
Et atelier pop-up jeunesse le 10 décembre, gratuit sur réservation
Salon du Livre animé, 15e édition (annulé / cancelled)organisé par Chez les libraires associés / La Boutique du livre animé
le samedi 19 novembre 2022 à la Mairie du IXe à Paris, 14h-18h
Rencontre et vente d’ouvrages
Multiples, Salon de la petite édition d’artiste, 17e édition
les samedi 29 et dimanche 30 octobre 2022, de 11h à 18h30
au pôle culturel Le Raudour à Saint-Martin-des-Champs, Morlaix (29600)
Rencontre et vente d’ouvrages
Salon du Livre caudacien, 6e édition
le dimanche 16 octobre 2022, de 10h à 18h
Rue Louis Aragon 94510 La Queue en Brie
Rencontre, vente d’ouvrages, atelier pop-up jeunesse
Délire de Livres 2022 (Am’Arts)
Exposition de livres d’artistes et livres-objets
à l’Écu de France, Viroflay (FR), du 12 mars au 10 avril 2022.
Vous pourrez y retrouver nos Steps: Baby Steps et Steps 2: More Steps qui ont été sélectionnés.
Vernissage le 12 mars à partir de 11h.
2021
13e Salon du Livre Animé
Chez les libraires associés / La Boutique du livre animé
Rencontre-signature, Mairie du IXe (Paris, FR), 2021/11/27
Les livres de Nicolas Codron at Chantelivre Paris: Halloween in Wonderland
Window display / installation with the miniature book Tenniel’s Alice and the pop-up book La Tour des Horreurs, available for sale in the shop during the event.
From October 28 to November 18, 2021.
Exposition Pop-ups: Architectures kiri-origamiques (Steps, Post Hiroshige)
à la Librairie Lardanchet (Paris, FR).
Exposition-vente solo, 2021/5/19-7/28
2018
11e Salon du Livre animé
Chez les libraires associés
Rencontre-signature, Médiathèque Françoise Sagan (FR), 2018/11/21
Finalist of the Artist Book Meggendorfer Prize with artist book “Steps”
USA, 2018/09
La p’tit’édit n° 3
Livres d’artistes uniques ou à tirages très limités
Librairie Gaëlle Cambon
Exposition-rencontre, Tours (FR), 2018/09/28-30
Avec Diane de Bournazel et Dominique Spiessert
2017
10e Salon du Livre animé
Chez les libraires associés
Rencontre-signature, Paris (FR), 2017/11/23
In the Press | On the Net
J.-Ch. TREBBI, L’art du livre origami (Alternatives, 2021)
J.-Ch. TREBBI, L’art du livre origami (Alternatives, 2021)
J.-Ch. TREBBI, L’art du livre origami (Alternatives, 2021)
