I knew that, in the early part of 2025, I would be fully distracted attending to print production on Alphabet in Motion, and thus needed to ma...
2025-06-03 23:40:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi all! Happy new year!
For the first quarterly installment of mail club (Q4 of 2024), I embarked on the ambitious project of hand-building each of you a 1/8th scale version of "This Book is a Planetarium." They are just so cute. They also test the limits of the laser cutter. And of my glu...
Hi all,
At long last, the new book made it to the printer and August's project is printed, assembled, and beginning to ship out! I drew work from the book and made everyone two stationery sets. I hope they will impress your design and typography friends. The first set of cards is...
Hi you all! Just a reminder that August 2024 is the last month of "monthly" mail club. We are now "quarterly." Your monthly subscription charge will now be 8$ (same price per shipment. / less shipments per year)
Also: some of you know that I've been working on a pop-up letterform book for ...
Hi all, For July, I made 13x19" risographed (and lasercut posters) that are… sort of magic? Turn the wheel to get more animation than you might expect from a simple gesture (like a whole galaxy of animation!) This design is the letter O from my new book ("Alphabet in Motion" coming out later th...
2024-07-31 13:00:59 +0000 UTC View PostI’ve been wanting to make RISO-animation-something and it finally happened in June! This is an experimental flipbook that can either be flipped in sections or flipped all together at once, as its pages are cut, but the sections are perfect-bound together and share a cover. It depicts the inner-...
2024-07-02 12:19:06 +0000 UTC View PostDesign nerds, rejoice! The May edition of #monthlygoodmail has shipped (ready yourself for some reading under your favorite tree.) I had the honor of designing the cover of Ideas Magazine (publish...
2024-05-31 14:46:06 +0000 UTC View PostHi all and happy Memorial Day weekend,
May's project will be shipping-out this week (a post about it is imminent!) but I wanted to post a video showing how to solve/complete the Poptical Illusion pop-up of rotating circles (from April, which hopefully everyone has received by now.)
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Happy Spring you all. April finally shipped out yesterday. 🎉
I'm kind of astonished to say that I got to work with one of the co-founders of the Velvet Underground for this installment of mail club. (Never
Coming your way:
A paper viewer for the April 8th solar eclipse. And a booklet explaining how you can use it (with other paper thingamabobs embedded into the cover.)
The overarching theme is that you can use paper as an interface on light itself—to better understand how it works. <...
2024-04-03 19:21:20 +0000 UTC View PostI have always wanted to make a book on transluscent vellum. The overlapping pages create what artists in the Renaissance called 'sfumato'—an atmospheric haziness that creates the illusion of real space. And so for February, I'm sending out a transparent copy of National Geographic t...
2024-03-06 19:27:01 +0000 UTC View PostEver get stuck on a project? (Or, like me, do you have 27 unfinished projects from 2023 that you need to unstick?)
My friend April Soetarman (@weirdsideprojects on IG) and I made a toolkit for this!
You can either roll the dice (err- Oblique Strategies-esque pen) for inspirati...
Happy New Year, you all!
Hopefully by now, you've received the December mailing, which are these "Happy New Year" cards that create the illusion of sparkling, exploding fireworks. They were made with…what is apparently… the world's fastest laser cutter, as shown in the above video. [omg...
2023-12-30 17:39:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi all!
November's project is a set of holiday cards. It is an example of what paper engineers call a "cobweb structure." I used a nested beehive to create a Christmas tree that rises up out of the paper with an external-tree layer, an internal tree-branch layer, and a trunk layer. You can ...
2023-12-01 14:56:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Video preview of the box:
https://www.kellianderson.com/books/IMG_1091.mp4
Hi all,
Sorry for the delay. October's project is a modular furniture design kit. It comes with puzzle-like modula...
2023-11-13 16:12:43 +0000 UTC View PostSeptember's experiment is a foldable illusion wall hanging. Specifically, it is a wall hanging that winks as you walk by it (perennially approving of your outfit!)
One of the sheets will arrive folded, as a model for how to fold the others. The sheets are pre-scored and folding instruction...
Hi you all,
The August mailing is dispatched and on its way to you! It is something that you have likely seen before, but all of the ingredients for an immediate adventure are included… so I hope you have fun with it.
While the weather remains nice in most places, the paper-things y...
2023-08-29 17:43:57 +0000 UTC View PostHi all,
I've been overwhelmed by the early adopter response, which made shipping a bigger deal this month than expected. (A good problem to have. :)) Because of that, your July packages only made it into the mailbox this weekend. Thanks for your patience and happy Summering,
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