Education
She graduated from the School of Visual Arts with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1984, where she was taught by Paula Scher.
She graduated from the School of Visual Arts with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1984, where she was taught by Paula Scher.
Upon graduating, she worked as a designer at Vintage Books (Random House) and then worked 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 out 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.
Anderson is a faculty member at the School of Visual Arts in the Designer as Author Master of Fine Arts department, where she also teaches graduate, undergraduate, and pre-college courses in graphic design.
Working with Steven Heller for over twenty years, she has co-published books on graphic design including New Modernist Type, American Typeplay, The Savage Mirror, and Graphic Wit.
