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Since 1947, SVA has had the longest-running continuous ad campaign in the New York City subway system: posters by such legends as Milton Glaser, Paula Scher, George Tscherney, and Stefan Sagmeister. An exhibition of these iconic posters, Underground Images, will be on display in Paris from November 25, 2024 to January 3, 2025 on the facades of Caserne Napoléon.
On this occasion, SVA presents a talk by graphic designer Gail Anderson and archivist Beth Kleber about American graphic design. The event is organized and hosted by SVA and the Maire de Paris.
Gail Anderson is a NYC-based designer, educator and writer. She is chair of BFA Design and BFA Advertising at the School of Visual Arts, and the creative director at Visual Arts Press.
Anderson has served as senior art director at Rolling Stone, creative director of design at SpotCo, and as a designer at The Boston Globe Sunday Magazine and Vintage Books. She has taught at SVA for 30 years and co-authored 15 books on design, typography, and illustration with esteemed designer, educator and ADC Hall of Fame laureate Steven Heller.
She serves on the Citizens’ Stamp Advisory Committee for the US Postal Service and the advisory board of Poster House. Anderson is an AIGA Medalist and the 2018 recipient of the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Lifetime Achievement Award for Design. Her work is represented in the permanent collections of the Library of Congress, the Milton Glaser Design Archives and the National Museum of African American History and Culture.
Beth Kleber is the founding archivist of the Milton Glaser Design Study Center and Archives and the School of Visual Arts Archives in New York City. She is the co-author, along with Steven Heller and Mirko Ilic, of Milton Glaser: POP (Monacelli, 2023). Her essays have appeared in design anthologies, and she has curated exhibitions including “Primary Sources: Documenting SVA and the New York Art World 1966-1985” and “Copy, Cut + Paste: The Visual Language of Ivan Chermayeff.” She is also a faculty member in SVA’s BFA Design department, where she teaches art and design history. Beth has worked in trade publishing and began her librarian and archivist career at New York Public Library.