2010 Speakers

Gail Anderson is the creative director of design at SpotCo. From 1987 to early 2002, she served as senior art director at Rolling Stone magazine.

Anderson’s work, which has received numerous awards, is in the permanent collections of the Cooper Hewitt Design Museum, the Milton Glaser Design Study Center and Archives, and the Library of Congress. She is co-author, with Steven Heller, of six design books, including New Ornamental Type.

Anderson teaches in the School of Visual Arts MFA and undergraduate design programs and currently serves on the advisory boards for Adobe Partners by Design and the Society of Publication Designers.

She is the recipient of the 2008 AIGA Medal, and the 2009 Richard Gangel art direction award from the Society of Illustrators.