[3] She graduated from the School of Visual Arts with a BFA in 1984,[4] where she was taught by Paula Scher.

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.

[6] Upon graduating, Anderson worked as a designer at Vintage Books (Random House) and then at The Boston Globe Sunday Magazine from 1985 to 1987.

[8] 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 work, which has received awards from the Society of Publication Designers, the Type Directors Club, AIGA, the Art Directors Club, Graphic, Communication Arts and Print, is in the permanent collections of the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, and the Library of Congress.

[15] She is partner at Anderson Newton Design,[15] serves on the board for the Type Directors Club, and is a member of the Citizens' Stamp Advisory Committee for the US Postal Service.

[7] Anderson developed her type style and incorporates it into commercial fonts, lettering, old advertising posters, vintage signage, pages from antique specimen books.

Theater Broadway[20] Guthrie Theater[23] Publications Rolling Stone[25] Posters School of Visual Arts[28] Type Directors Club[30] Anderson has collaborated with Steven Heller on multiple books.