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Kelli Anderson
Artist Kelli Anderson in front of a row of colorful books
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
Websitehttps://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]

Education[edit]

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[edit]

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.[7] Anderson also designed for publications related to Occupy Wall Street.[8]

In 2015, Anderson was granted the Adobe Creative Residency[9] which included being a keynote speaker at Adobe Max.[10] She also spent five years working part-time in Special Collections at the American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan,[11] 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.[12] Her infographics include Buying a Gun in America for Mayors Against Illegal Guns,[13] 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.[14][15] 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.[16] Anderson has taught paper engineering at Cooper Union[17] 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.[18] 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.[19][20] She has also designed for Russ n' Daughters and Momofuku, and Munchery.[21]

Recently, she has been a featured speaker at MIT Media Lab[22] and animated in collaboration with Yo Yo Ma on a series of Richard Feynman poems.[23] An upcoming book will be published by Letterform Archive.[24]

Works[edit]

  • This Book is a Planetarium, published by Chronicle Books (2017)[25]
  • This Book is a Camera, published by MoMA (2018)[26]
  • Powers of Ten, with Adam Pickard (2022)[27]

Awards[edit]

  • Nominated for the Cooper Hewitt / Smithsonian National Design Award (in Communication Design), 2023
  • Ars Electronica Award of Distinction, 2009[28]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Anderson, Kelli (2012-03-10), Design to challenge reality, retrieved 2024-02-09
  2. ^ "Kelli Anderson: books, biography, latest update". Amazon.com. Retrieved 2023-09-30.
  3. ^ a b Talking While Female | Shots | NPR, retrieved 2024-03-12
  4. ^ Lepore, Jill (2023-03-27). "The Data Delusion". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X. Retrieved 2024-03-15.
  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
  6. ^ "Yes Ma\'am: Artist Kelli Anderson On Designing For The Yes Men | Brooklyn The Borough". 2009-11-30. Retrieved 2024-02-24.
  7. ^ "Kelli Anderson". OFFSET. Retrieved 2024-02-23.
  8. ^ Popova, Maria (2011-12-19). "Occupy Scales of Wealth: Income Inequality Visualized as NYC Map". The Marginalian. Retrieved 2024-03-15.
  9. ^ Cowles, Dan (2015). "Going Deep: Designer Kelli Anderson". creativecloud.adobe.com. Retrieved 2024-02-24.
  10. ^ "Designing to Challenge Reality — A Conceptual Toolkit". www.adobe.com. Retrieved 2024-03-15.
  11. ^ Staffpublished, Creative Bloq (2012-11-01). "Kelli Anderson: New York state of mind". Creative Bloq. Retrieved 2024-02-28.
  12. ^ "Yes Ma\'am: Artist Kelli Anderson On Designing For The Yes Men | Brooklyn The Borough". 2009-11-30. Retrieved 2024-02-24.
  13. ^ "Buying a Gun in America : Kelli Anderson". Retrieved 2024-02-24.
  14. ^ Rhodes, Margaret. ""This Book is a Camera" is exactly what it sounds like: A pop-up book that is also a working camera". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 2024-03-15.
  15. ^ "Kelli Anderson - This Book is a Camera". Printed Matter. Retrieved 2024-02-28.
  16. ^ "Iconic Book Covers Re-Imagined In Paper - Design & Paper". 2013-08-20. Retrieved 2024-02-24.
  17. ^ "Kelli Anderson". Helen Hiebert Studio. Retrieved 2024-02-28.
  18. ^ They Might Be Giants - Long White Beard (Dial-A-Song Week 50), retrieved 2024-03-12
  19. ^ Tinybop. "The Human Body". Tinybop. Retrieved 2024-03-12.
  20. ^ Vanhemert, Kyle. "Gorgeous Anatomy App Gives Kids What They Want: Farts". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 2024-03-12.
  21. ^ Gordon, Chloe (2021-08-05). "Russ & Daughter's Caviar Packaging From Kelli Anderson is Guided By History". PRINT Magazine. Retrieved 2024-03-15.
  22. ^ "Kelli Anderson Seminar". MIT Media Lab. Retrieved 2024-03-15.
  23. ^ Popova, Maria (2022-04-22). "Atoms with Consciousness: Yo-Yo Ma Performs Richard Feynman's Ode to the Wonder of Life, Animated". The Marginalian. Retrieved 2024-03-15.
  24. ^ "Alphabet in Motion: A Pop-Up Book for Typophiles". Letterform Archive. Retrieved 2024-03-15.
  25. ^ "This Book Is a Planetarium". Chronicle Books. Retrieved 2023-09-30.
  26. ^ "Kelli Anderson - This Book is a Camera". Printed Matter. Retrieved 2023-09-30.
  27. ^ "Kelli Anderson - Powers of Ten". Center for Book Arts.
  28. ^ "Kelli Anderson, 2/15/2024". U-M Stamps. Retrieved 2024-02-23.

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