Kelli Anderson uses design magic to connect people with the depth and possibility of their world.

Working in between code, publishing, and animation, she created This Book is a Camera (MoMA) — which transforms into a working camera — and This Book is a Planetarium (Chronicle) — which houses paper devices (including a planetarium) and has sold more than 100,000 copies. Alphabet in Motion, based on research with Letterform Archive on typographic technology will be published in the fall of 2024.

Other projects include a viral paper record player and — with The Yes Men — a utopian counterfeited New York Times, which won the Ars Electronica Prix. Doctors without Borders have used the award-winning Tinybop Human Body app to communicate illness and treatment nonverbally to their patients in remote areas.

Clients include NPR, the New Yorker, the Guggenheim, MoMA, Apple, and the New York Times. Anderson has redesigned brands such as Russ & Daughters and Momofuku. She has exhibited internationally; her independent projects have been supported by the Japan Foundation, Exploratorium, Adobe, Center for Book Arts, MASS MoCA, ITP, and Letterform Archive. She has designed curriculum and taught in graduate programs at NYU, ITP, and Parsons, as well as teaching at Cooper Union, Pratt Institute, and the School for Poetic Computation.