MODA's Design Conversations provide a unique opportunity for attendees to hear, question and engage with national multidisciplinary designers about their work and inspirations. Held in partnership with Portfolio Center, these conversations take a deep dive into a subject and encourage lively discussion about how design can solve problems, change lives, and make the world a better place.

Design Conversation with Gail Anderson

Thursday, July 27

7 to 8:30 p.m.

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 theater. From 1987 to early 2002, she worked at Rolling Stone magazine, serving as designer, deputy art director and senior art director. Early in her career, Anderson held design positions 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 collections 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. With Steven Heller, she is co-author 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 magazines.

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.

Design Conversation Tickets are $15 / $10 MODA Members and AIGA ATL Members / $8 Students

Location: Hill Auditorium, Woodruff Arts Center, 1280 Peachtree Street.