This Book is a Planetarium

In this unique interactive book, each turn of the page reveals a different, lo-fi-but-fully-functional paper gadget. You'll find a constellation-projecting planetarium, a strummable musical instrument, a geometric drawing generator, a perpetual calendar, a message encryptor/decoder, and a speaker that amplifies sound. By reducing familiar devices down to just paper, this book shows that a lot can be done with very little. Because each pop-up contraption actually works (despite exhibiting no apparent technology), the book offers the reader a more intimate understanding of structures and functions that hide in plain sight in our digital world. In addition to her brilliantly inventive use of paper-engineering, designer, Kelli Anderson, concisely explains how a material as humble as paper can come alive thanks to a little magic from universal scientific phenomena like sound, time and light.

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This Book is a Planetarium

Designer

Kelli Anderson

Publisher

Chronicle Books

Format

Hardcover

Pages

5

Size

12 x 9.75 Inches

Origin

China

ISBN

978-1452136219

About the author

Kelli Anderson is an American 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.a