Portrait of Gail Anderson

Chair, BFA Advertising and Design departments, School of Visual Arts; creative director, Visual Arts Press; designer; writer

Art History BFA Design

Education

BFA, School of Visual Arts


Professional experience includes

Partner, Anderson Newton Design; creative director of design, SpotCo; senior art director, Rolling Stone


Books include

Outside the Box: Hand-Drawn Packaging from Around the World; New Ornamental Type: Decorative Lettering in the Digital Age; New Vintage Type: Classic Fonts for the Digital Age; The Designer’s Guide to Astounding Photoshop Effects; American Typeplay; The Savage Mirror: The Art of Contemporary Caricature; Graphic Wit: The Art of Humor in Design


Publications include

Step Inside Design, DesignNet (Korea), kAk (Russia), Show People, Paper, Graphic Arts (U.K.), Baseline


Collections include

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum; Library of Congress; Milton Glaser Design Study Center and Archives


Awards and honors include

National Design Award for Lifetime Achievement, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum; Medal for Lifetime Achievement, AIGA; Society of Publication Designers; Type Directors Club; Art Directors Club; Communication Arts; Print; Graphis; UCDA; Society for News Design; Spirit of Juneteenth Award, Amistad Center for Art and Culture; Honorary Doctorate, Pennsylvania College of Art & Design