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Her career has ranged from magazine design to teaching, designing for the theater, packaging, writing, and now designing for academia. Anderson's work has received many 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, her work 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. In 2018 Gail Anderson was honored with The National Design Awards’ Lifetime Achievement Accolade, the first year that women of color were awarded.

Anderson designed the 2013 Emancipation Proclamation US postage stamp.

She was among AIGA's 2008 medalists for her accomplishments in Graphic Design. She serves on the advisory board for the Adobe Design Achievement Awards. Anderson served as the Director-At-Large for the Type Directors Club from 2014 to 2016.

Upon graduating, Anderson worked as a designer at Vintage Books (Random House) and then at The Boston Globe Sunday Magazine from 1985 to 1987. She became the senior art director of Rolling Stone, where she worked for fifteen years from 1987 to 2002, starting as a designer and deputy art director. In 2002, she became the creative director at SpotCo, an agency specializing in advertising for the arts and entertainment, where she stayed until 2010. Her first piece for Spotco was a subway poster for the play Harlem Song. Anderson was also in charge of the typeface library at SpotCo. She is currently a partner at Anderson Newton Design with Joe Newton.

She graduated from the School of Visual Arts with a BFA in 1984, where she was taught by Paula Scher. 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 Advisory Committee for the US Postal Service.

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