Simon Arizpe

Simon Arizpe served as the senior paper engineer and illustrator for the studios of Robert Sabuda and Matthew Reinhart for a decade. He has worked on over 40 pop-up books. Simon is a visiting instructor at the Pratt Institute^[1] and teaches at Parsons School of Design in New York City.^[2] He is the recipient of the 2018 Meggendorfer Prize. His pop up book "The Wild" has been made part of the collection of the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum library.^{[3][4][5][6][non-primary source needed]}

• Meggendorfer Prize for Best Paper Engineer for "Zahhak:The Legend of the Serpent King"^[7]
• Award of Excellence, Society of Illustrators, New York, NY, 2013^{[citation needed]}
• Award of Excellence, Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art, New York, NY, 2013^{[citation needed]}