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This Book Is a Planetarium: And Other Extraordinary Pop-Up Contraptions Hardcover – Pop up, October 3, 2017

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“A wondrous pop-up masterpiece that translates the laws of physics, from light to time, into magical hands-on demonstrations…. This Book Is a Planetarium is immeasurably delightful, an achievement of elaborate engineering that feels somehow as spare and precise as a poem.” —Brain Pickings

“A marvel of paper engineering and imagination.” —The New York Times

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Kelli Anderson is a Brooklyn-based artist, graphic designer, and self-identified "tinkerer."
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Chronicle Books; Pop edition (October 3, 2017)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 5 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1452136211
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1452136219
  • Reading age ‏ : ‎ 8 - 12 years
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.46 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 9.7 x 1.2 x 12.05 inches
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“Kelli Anderson is one of the most talented, thoughtful, inspiring young designers working today, bringing to each project an artist’s flair, a scientist’s rigor, and a philosopher’s deliberation.” —Maria Popova, Brainpickings

Kelli Anderson is a designer and paper engineer whose work operates in the space between conceptual art, graphic design, and tech. Her whimsical books have featured a working paper planetarium, a pop-up pinhole camera, and a paper record player. Whenever she can, she uses humble, lo-fi materials to expose the invisible magic of the world and make abstract concepts "real" and tangible.

Kelli's work puts forth the idea that lo-fi, handheld experiences can challenge the notion of tech as an inaccesssible black box. Her first book, a functional pop-up camera titled, “This Book is a Camera,” was published by the Museum of Modern Art in 2016. Her paper record player invitation, her TED talk, and her work on Tinybop's "The Human Body" are widely-beloved for showcasing the possibility hiding in plain view in our world.

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