Kelli Anderson

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Kelli Anderson
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Born
New Orleans, LA
NationalityAmerican
EducationBFA, MFA, MS
Alma materPratt Institute
Notable workThis Book is a Camera, This Book is a Planetarium
StyleConceptual Art, Graphic Design
Website https://kellianderson.com

Kelli Anderson is a graphic artist and paper engineer who works with a wide range of mediums including infographics, branding design, pop up books and risograph animations. She has taught art and graphic design at Cooper Union, NYU, and SFPC, given a TED talk on disruptive art, [1] and has published 3 books. [2] Her work has been published by NPR, [3] MoMA, Chronicle Books, and The New Yorker. [4]

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Education

Anderson received a BFA at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, followed by an MFA and MS at the Pratt Institute of New York. She wrote her master's thesis on nuclear waste markers. [5] [6]

Career

In 2013 Anderson illustrated The Human Body, [7] a children's app by Tinybop Inc. [8]

Anderson collaborated as a graphic designer with The Yes Men on a counterfeit New York Times newspaper. The hoax involved blanketing New York City with fake editions of the paper completely rewritten with articles describing a utopian present reality. [9] Anderson also designed for publications related to Occupy Wall Street. [10]

In 2015, Anderson was granted the Adobe Creative Residency [11] which included being a keynote speaker at Adobe Max. [12] She also spent five years working part-time in Special Collections at the American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan, [13] and as an Osher Fellow at Exploratorium.

Anderson's work spans a broad range of digital and tangible mediums, and from the playful to the political or a mix of both. [6] Her infographics include Buying a Gun in America for Mayors Against Illegal Guns, [14] which addressed the ease with which a gun can be obtained. Anderson is also well known for her interactive paper work such as “The Paper Record Player”, a wedding invitation that plays music; and her books "This Book Is a Planetarium" and "This Book is a Camera" which was published by the MoMA. [15] [16] In 2013, she created the installation Book Covers, Re-imagined in Paper, a 100% paper installation done for the New York City Public Library with Maria Popova. [17] Anderson has taught paper engineering at Cooper Union [18] as well as typography and risograph animation.

There is a strong theme of bringing the 2 dimensional to life in Anderson's work, exemplified in her sculptural paper pieces and pop-ups. This theme is also evident in her animation work where a handcrafted quality is often present such as in her work for NPR's video "Talking While Female" [3] or her music video for They Might be Giants which used a combination of stop motion and compositing techniques. [19] Even when working with the purely digital, such as creating interactive anatomy for the Tinybop Human Body app, Anderson's work retains a quality of texture and tangibility. [20] [21] She has also designed for Russ n' Daughters and Momofuku, and Munchery. [22]

Recently, she has been a featured speaker at MIT Media Lab [23] and animated in collaboration with Yo Yo Ma on a series of Richard Feynman poems. [24] An upcoming book will be published by Letterform Archive. [25]

Works

Awards

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  2. ↑ "Kelli Anderson: books, biography, latest update". Amazon.com. Retrieved 2023-09-30.
  3. 1 2 Talking While Female | Shots | NPR, 24 October 2014, retrieved 2024-03-12
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  5. ↑ Anderson, Kelli "DESIGNING FOR DEEP TIME: How art history is used to mark nuclear waste". Pratt Institute, 2005. Retrieved from: https://www.kellianderson.com/MSthesis.pdf
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  25. ↑ "Alphabet in Motion: A Pop-Up Book for Typophiles". Letterform Archive. Retrieved 2024-03-15.
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