Gail anderson famous works
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Anderson points to her childhood drawing and stapling together recreations of Partridge Family and Jackson 5 magazines as her first exploration into design, and the very beginnings of her career as a graphic designer. In her episode of Revision Path, a podcast that interviews and showcases Black designers and creatives, Anderson explains that following her childhood:
“I had an art teacher, Chris Francis, at Cardinal Spellman High School in the Bronx, and she directed me to SVA, and she had taken night classes, and really liked it, and we had a poster in the corner, it was the Paul Davis poster, “To Be Good is Not Enough, When You Dream of Being Great,” and I thought, ‘I want to go to that school.” I love that line, I love the poster…I kind of made my college decision based on the poster and my high school teacher’s recommendation.”
Created during her youth, Anderson’s Scrapbook about The Jackson 5 is one of many pieces in the permanent collection of the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Also, in NMAAHC’s collection is Anderson’s poster Reclai
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Gail Anderson is a NYC-based designer, educator and writer. She is chair of BFA Design and BFA Advertising at the School of Visual Arts, and the creative director at Visual Arts Press.
Anderson has served as senior art director at Rolling Stone, creative director of design at SpotCo, and as a designer at The Boston Globe Sunday Magazine and Vintage Books. She has taught at SVA for 30 years and co-authored 15 books on design, typography, and illustration with esteemed designer, educator and ADC Hall of Fame laureate Steven Heller.
She serves on the Citizens' Stamp Advisory Committee for the US Postal Service and the advisory board of Poster House. Anderson is an AIGA Medalist and the 2018 recipient of the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Lifetime Achievement Award for Design. Her work is represented in the permanent collections of the Library of Congress, the Milton Glaser Design Archives and the National Museum of African American History and Culture.
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Gail Anderson (graphic designer)
American graphic designer
Gail Anderson (born 1962) is an American graphic designer, writer, and educator[1] known for her typographic skill, hand-lettering and poster design.
Biography
Early life and education
Gail Anderson's family migrated to the Bronx, New York from Jamaica. She was the first-generation American, and first-generation college-educated in her family.[2] In her youth, Anderson created Jackson 5 and Partridge Family pretend magazines. As she got older, she began to look into what was then called “commercial art” as a possible career field. [3]
She graduated from the School of Visual Arts with a BFA in 1984,[4] where she was taught by Paula Scher.[5] She joined the faculty at School of Visual Arts MFA, undergraduate, and high school design programs, and has served on the advisory boards for Adobe Partners by Design and the Society of Publication Designers. She currently serves on the board for the Type Directors Club, and is a member of the Citizens' Stamp
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