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]
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]
Works
The Human Body, published by Tinybop Inc. (2003)[25]
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