Kelli Anderson Explained

Kelli Anderson
Birth Place:New Orleans, LA
Nationality:American
Education:BFA, MFA, MS
Alma Mater:Pratt Institute
Notable Works:This Book is a Camera, This Book is a Planetarium
Style:Conceptual 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, and has published 3 books.[1] Her work has been published by NPR, MoMA, Chronicle Books, and The New Yorker.[2]

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.[3] [4]

Career

In 2013 Anderson illustrated The Human Body,[5] a children's app by Tinybop Inc.[6]

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.[4] Her infographics include Buying a Gun in America for Mayors Against Illegal Guns,[12] 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.[13] [14] 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.[15] Anderson has taught paper engineering at Cooper Union[16] 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" or her music video for They Might be Giants which used a combination of stop motion and compositing techniques. 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.[17] [18] She has also designed for Russ n' Daughters and Momofuku, and Munchery.[19]

Recently, she has been a featured speaker at MIT Media Lab[20] and animated in collaboration with Yo Yo Ma on a series of Richard Feynman poems.[21] An upcoming book will be published by Letterform Archive.[22]

Works

Awards

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Kelli Anderson: books, biography, latest update . 2023-09-30 . Amazon.com . en-us.
  2. Lepore . Jill . 2023-03-27 . The Data Delusion . 2024-03-15 . The New Yorker . en-US . 0028-792X.
  3. 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
  4. Web site: 2009-11-30 . Yes Ma\'am: Artist Kelli Anderson On Designing For The Yes Men Brooklyn The Borough . 2024-02-24 . en-US.
  5. Web site: Brownlee . John . 2013-08-21 . As Beautiful As A Golden Age Picture Book, An Anatomy App for Kids . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20200811070546/https://www.fastcompany.com/1673309/as-beautiful-as-a-golden-age-picture-book-an-anatomy-app-for-kids . 2020-08-11 . 2024-06-26 . FastCompany Design.
  6. News: Vanhemert . Kyle . Gorgeous Anatomy App Gives Kids What They Want: Farts . 2024-06-26 . Wired . en-US . 1059-1028.
  7. Web site: Kelli Anderson . 2024-02-23 . OFFSET . en-US.
  8. Web site: Popova . Maria . 2011-12-19 . Occupy Scales of Wealth: Income Inequality Visualized as NYC Map . 2024-03-15 . The Marginalian . en-US.
  9. Web site: Cowles . Dan . 2015 . Going Deep: Designer Kelli Anderson . 2024-02-24 . creativecloud.adobe.com.
  10. Web site: Designing to Challenge Reality — A Conceptual Toolkit . 2024-03-15 . www.adobe.com . en.
  11. Web site: Staffpublished . Creative Bloq . 2012-11-01 . Kelli Anderson: New York state of mind . 2024-02-28 . Creative Bloq . en.
  12. Web site: Buying a Gun in America : Kelli Anderson . 2024-02-24 . en.
  13. Rhodes . Margaret . "This Book is a Camera" is exactly what it sounds like: A pop-up book that is also a working camera. . 2024-03-15 . Wired . en-US . 1059-1028.
  14. Web site: Kelli Anderson - This Book is a Camera . 2024-02-28 . Printed Matter . en.
  15. Web site: 2013-08-20 . Iconic Book Covers Re-Imagined In Paper - Design & Paper . 2024-02-24 . en-US.
  16. Web site: Kelli Anderson . 2024-02-28 . Helen Hiebert Studio . en-US.
  17. Web site: Tinybop . The Human Body . 2024-03-12 . Tinybop . 20 November 2022 . en-US.
  18. Vanhemert . Kyle . Gorgeous Anatomy App Gives Kids What They Want: Farts . 2024-03-12 . Wired . en-US . 1059-1028.
  19. Web site: Gordon . Chloe . 2021-08-05 . Russ & Daughter's Caviar Packaging From Kelli Anderson is Guided By History . 2024-03-15 . PRINT Magazine . en-US.
  20. Web site: Kelli Anderson Seminar . 2024-03-15 . MIT Media Lab.
  21. Web site: Popova . Maria . 2022-04-22 . Atoms with Consciousness: Yo-Yo Ma Performs Richard Feynman's Ode to the Wonder of Life, Animated . 2024-03-15 . The Marginalian . en-US.
  22. Web site: Alphabet in Motion: A Pop-Up Book for Typophiles . 2024-03-15 . Letterform Archive . en-US.
  23. Web site: Tinybop . The Human Body . 2024-06-26 . Tinybop . en-US.
  24. Web site: This Book Is a Planetarium . 2023-09-30 . Chronicle Books . en.
  25. Web site: Kelli Anderson - This Book is a Camera . 2023-09-30 . Printed Matter . en.
  26. Web site: Kelli Anderson - Powers of Ten . Center for Book Arts . en.
  27. Web site: Kelli Anderson, 2/15/2024 . 2024-02-23 . U-M Stamps . en.

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