ABOUT GAIL ANDERSON
Known for her uncanny ability to create expressive, dynamic typefaces suited perfectly to their subject GAIL ANDERSON is a designer and teacher with an impressive tenure in the field to date.
Born and raised in New York, Anderson’s ever burning curiosity about design began with the teen mags of her adolescent years and was cemented while studying at the School of Visual Arts in NY. It was here that Anderson began to develop her methodologies and no holds barred approach to design.
After college, Anderson eventually landed at The Boston Globe for two years where she worked with those responsible for pioneering the new newspaper design of the late 1980s. Moving on to ROLLING STONE in 1987, Anderson worked seamlessly with AIGA medalist, Fred Woodward, where their creative process always included lots of music, low lighting, and late nights. Her work with Woodward was always exploring new and exciting materials and instruments to create Rolling Stone’s eclectic design. Everything from hot metal to bits of twigs, to bottle caps, was utilized to create their best vision possible.
After working her way up from associate to senior art director, Anderson left Rolling Stone in 2002 to join SpotCo where her focus shifted from design to advertising. At SpotCO, she’s been the designer behind innumerable Broadway and off-Broadway posters including that of Avenue Q and Eve Ensler’s The Good Body.
Praised as the quintessential collaborator for her inclusive, expressive, and encouraging attitude towards working together, Anderson also admits that many of her “high-octane” designing occurred at night, solo. Whether it’s her collaborative work, solo projects, magazine layout, and design, or theatrical posters, Anderson designs work with and for her subjects, always emphasizing their highest potential.
QUOTES BY GAIL ANDERSON
Your studio can fit in a backpack as long as you can find a Wifi signal. Goodbye expensive small apartment living, if that’s not the lifestyle you want for yourself.
You owe it to your profession if you had a teacher, or boss, or mentor, who helped shape your career, or even your life. It’s good karma. Why risk a cartoon anvil falling on your head?
WHAT I WISH FOR YOU TODAY
I wish you a “NO ANVIL FALLING ON YOUR HEAD” kind of Sunday.