Meet the artist

Lovepop Cards

Lovepop was founded in 2014 by naval-engineering friends Wombi Rose and John Wise, who used shipbuilding techniques to make 3D pop-up cards.

Based: Boston, Massachusetts
Since: 2014
Craft: Pop-up paper cards

Rose and Wise met at the Webb Institute, a naval engineering school, and reconnected at Harvard Business School. On a school trip to Vietnam they discovered kirigami, the art of intricately cut and folded paper, and paired it with the slice-form techniques used to design ships. The result is a card that opens into a small paper sculpture. The Boston company pitched on Shark Tank in 2015 and won investment from Kevin O'Leary, and it now makes pop-up bouquets, light-up cards and more. ModernTribe carries its Hanukkah cards: a gold menorah pop-up, a Menorah Lights pop-up and a Happy Hanukkah card that unfolds into a banner more than three feet long.