Gail Anderson

Designer, Writer, and Educator

Biography

Gail Anderson is a New York-based designer, writer, and educator. She is a partner, with Joe Newton, at Anderson Newton Design.

From 2002 through 2010, she served as Creative Director of Design at SpotCo, a New York City advertising agency that creates artwork for Broadway and institutional the- ater. From 1987 to early 2002, she worked at Rolling Stone magazine, serving as designer, deputy art director, and finally, as the maga- zine’s senior art director. And early in her career, Gail was a designer at The Boston Globe Sunday Magazine and Vintage Books (Random House).

Anderson’s work has received awards from major design organizations, including the Society of Publication Designers, the Type Directors Club, The American Institute of Graphic Arts, The Art Directors Club, Graphis, Communication Arts, and Print. In addition, it has also been included in the permanent col- lections of the Cooper Hewitt Design Museum, the Library of Congress, and the Milton Glaser Design Archives at the School of Visual Arts. Anderson has been featured in magazines that include Computer Arts (UK), designNET (Korea), kAk (Russia), STEP Inside Design, and Graphic Design USA.

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SpotCo Broadway theater poster for Man of La Mancha, 2002

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SpotCo Guthrie theater poster for

Peer Gynt, 2007

This is Gail Anderson’s table at Cooper Hewitt Teen Design Fest

“When I hear of other black designers I’m happy that they’re out there, just doing good work like everyone else.”

Gail Anderson is co-author, with Steven Heller, of the upcoming The Typographic Universe, as well as New Modernist Type, New Ornamental Type, New Vintage Type, Astounding Photoshop Effects, American Typeplay, The Savage Mirror, and Graphic Wit. She is a contributor to Imprint and Uppercase magazine.

Anderson teaches in the 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 Advisory Committee for the US Postal Service.

Anderson is the recipient of the 2008 Lifetime Achievement Medal from the AIGA, the 2009 Richard Gangel art direction award from the Society of Illustrators, and has lectured about design (and her bottle cap collection) at organizations and conferences around the world. One of her most recent talks was at Hue Design Summit in Atlanta, Georgia.

12 books Anderson coauthored with design historian Steven Heller.

Her Work

For over 14 years, she worked with the illustrious and dear Fred Woodward at Rolling Stone, where she served as Designer, Deputy Art Director, and finally, Senior Art Director. She arrived in the fall of 1987 to work at an enormous drafting table with a Mayline and triangle, and left in the spring of 2002, nearsighted from spending so much time in front of a computer. Almost everything she knows and loves about typography and illustration is the result of those 14 years with Fred (and before him, Lynn Staley, Ronn Campisi, and Lucy Bartholomay at The Boston Globe).

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entertainment industry. She worked under the leadership of Drew Hodges, SpotCo’s president, and my classmate from the School of Visual Arts. The following pieces were created in her tenure, and most of the credit for their success goes to the wonderful team of designers she had the pleasure of collaborating with.

They included: Darren Cox, Nicky Lindeman, Bashan Aquart, Amanda Spielman, Jeff Rogers, Jessica Disbrow, Sam Eckersley, and Frank Gargiulo. SpotCo clients included Roundabout Theatre Company, New York’s leading not-for-profit theatrical institution, and winner of 25 Tony Awards. Manhattan Theatre Club is one of New York’s largest not-for-profit theatrical institutions, with both Broadway and off Broadway productions, and is a longtime SpotCo client. While at SpotCo, her department also designed several seasons of shows for the lovely folks at Minneapolis’ famed Guthrie Theater.

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Antionette Carroll

Biography

Antionette D. Carroll is the Founder, President and CEO of Creative Reaction Lab, a nonprofit educating, training, and challenging Black and Latinx youth to become leaders designing healthy and racially equitable communities. Within this capacity, Antionette has pioneered a new, award-winning form of creative problem solving called EquityCentered Community Design - named a Fast Company World Changing Idea Finalist in General Excellence and Urban Design. (Since launching in March 2018, thousands have downloaded and/or purchased the supplemental Equity-Centered Community Design Field Guide: http://www.creativereactionlab. com/eccd-field-guide.) Through this capacity, Antionette has received several recognitions including being named a GDUSA Person to Watch, Echoing Green Global Fellow, TED Fellow, Essence Magazine’s Woke 100, Next City Vanguard, Camelback Ventures Fellow, and St. Louis Visionary Awards Community Impact Honoree.

Throughout her career, Antionette has worked for non-profits working for social justice, human rights, diversity, equity, and inclusion as a communications specialist. Prior to Creative Reaction Lab, Antionette was the Head of Communications for Diversity Awareness Partnership, a Saint Louis based nonprofit that works to increase awareness, facilitate engagement and provide education