Gail Anderson

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Gail Anderson (born 1962 ) is an American graphic designer , writer, and lecturer .

Live and act

Gail Anderson studied at the School of Visual Arts in New York City, including as a student of Paula Scher , where she graduated in 1984. She then worked for Vintage Books , Boston Globe Sunday Magazine and, from 1987, Rolling Stone . There she shaped the image of the magazine as art director for more than 15 years. At the SpotCo studio , which specializes in theater, entertainment posters and advertising material, the focus was on dealing intensively with customers. She currently runs the Anderson Newton Design studio together with Joe Newton.

Works

Her work is represented in the collections of the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum and the Library of Congress . A large part of her work is made up of publications, which she usually publishes together with Steven Heller . As an author, she also prefers to deal with the role of traditional typography as an inspiration and point of friction for current typography, for example in the book ›New Vintage Type‹, which she also designed.

style

She is known for the unconventional use of traditional fonts and a multicolored, catchy design. Anderson's work often draws on motifs from poster history, be it the petty-bourgeois dreams of the 1950s (›Walmatopia‹) or Swiss typography. According to her own statement, she sees the use of traditional fonts less as a retro trend than as an expression of respect for tradition; She often considers clear and reduced design to be the result of risk avoidance.

Awards

  • 2008 AIGA medal for her life's work
  • 2009 Richard Gangel Art Director Award
  • 2018 National Design Awards for Lifetime Achievement

Fonts

  • Steven Heller / Gail Anderson: Graphic Wit. New York 1991, ISBN 9780823021611
  • Steven Heller / Gail Anderson: The Savage Mirror. New York 1992, ISBN 9780823046447
  • Steven Heller / Gail Anderson: American Type-Play. Oxnard 1996, ISBN 978-0866363242
  • Steven Heller / Gail Anderson: New Vintage Type. New York 2007, ISBN 978-0823099597
  • Steven Heller / Gail Anderson: New Ornamental Type: Decorative Lettering in the Digital Age. Thames & Hudson ISBN 978-0500515020
  • Steven Heller / Gail Anderson: New Modernist Type. Thames & Hudson 2012, ISBN 978-0500241417
  • Steven Heller / Gail Anderson: The Graphic Design Idea Book: Inspiration from 50 Masters. Laurence King Publishing 2016, ISBN 978-1780677569
  • Steven Heller / Gail Anderson: The Typography Idea Book: Inspiration from 50 Masters. Laurence King Publishing 2016, ISBN 978-1780678498
  • Steven Heller / Gail Anderson: Type Tells Tales. Thames & Hudson 2017, ISBN 978-0500420577
  • Steven Heller / Gail Anderson: Type Speaks: A Lexicon of Expressive, Emotional, and Symbolic Typefaces. Abrams & Chronicle Books 2020, ISBN 978-1419738050

literature

  • Bryony Gomez-Palacio / Armin Vit (eds.): Women of Design - Influence and Inspiration from the Original Trailblazers to the New Groundbreakers. Cincinnati 2008, ISBN 978-1600610851 .
  • Julia Meer: short biography . In: Gerda Breuer, Julia Meer (eds.): Women in graphic design 1890-2012 . Jovis, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-86859-153-8 .
  • Abigail Croll & Julia Ross: Gail Anderson - A Lifetime in Design. In: Smithsonian Magazine, March 2019, available online here .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b 2008 AIGA Medalist: Gail Anderson. Retrieved March 4, 2020 .
  2. ↑ About. In: gailycurl.com. Retrieved March 4, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Julia Meer: Short biography . In: Gerda Breuer, Julia Meer (eds.): Women in graphic design 1890-2012 . Jovis, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-86859-153-8 .
  4. ^ Gail Anderson | Society of Illustrators. Retrieved March 4, 2020 .
  5. ↑ 2018 National Design Award Winners | Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum (en-US) . In: Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum , May 8, 2018. 
personal data
SURNAME Anderson, Gail
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American graphic designer, writer, and lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH 1962