Amanda Palmer reads “Hubble Photographs: After Sappho” at the third annual Universe in Verse, curated and hosted by Maria Popova at Pioneer Works. 

Animation by Kelli Anderson. Poem text and vital background here. 

More highlights from The Universe in Verse here. 

This Book Is a Planetarium — a pop-up masterpiece translating the laws of physics into playful and poetic tangibility, from the wildly inventive Kelli Anderson. 

The always-brilliant Kelli Anderson adapts Charles and Ray Eames’s iconic Powers of Ten film into a paper flipbook using photos found via Google’s “visually similar images” search function, the U.S. Geological Survey, NASA, and various mapping software.

Design is a research tool to go into that unknown territory and be able to highlight the reasons why things happen that may be hidden from us. 

Fantastic Design Matters conversation with designer and creative master-tinkerer Kelli Anderson, whose work – ranging from building a paper record player to visualizing the gender-bias in the human voice for NPR – explores the hidden talents of everyday things.

Subscribe to Design Matters on iTunes and catch up on these 10 favorite episodes from the show’s first ten years. 

My friends at Tinybop have just released the second installment in their wonderful series of educational apps: Plants is a vibrant, interactive diorama of the world’s biomes illustrated by French artist Marie Caudry, with a lovely stop-motion trailer designed by the inimitable Kelli Anderson (who knows a thing or two about making magical dioramas). 

Tinybop’s first app, The Human Body, was inspired by this vintage gem.

The Existential Calculator – a lo-fi masterpiece by the inimitable Kelli Anderson (with whom I collaborated on a recent labor-of-love project for the New York Public Library), inspired by vintage paper calculation wheels, answers the quintessential question, “Should I take this job?" 

Complement with this essential read on how to find your purpose and do what you love.

Magnificent papercraft trailer Tinybop’s Human Body app, designed by the inimitable Kelli Anderson, who recently worked her papercraft magic in a whimsical New York Public Library display.

The , with aesthetics inspired by the beautiful vintage illustrations of the 1959 book The Human Body, is part of Tinybop’s new Explorer’s Library – a series of games that help kids develop a foundational understanding of the world through immersive, interaction-driven play.

Buying a gun in America is easier than you think – this infographic by Kelli Anderson for Mayor Bloomberg, part of the Mayors Against Illegal Guns initiative, will give you pause. 

Pair with a more human way to interpret the Second Amendment, more infographic gun myth-busting, and Stephen King’s indispensable essay on gun control.