Anne Gibson named firmwide Interior Design Practice Leader

Anne Gibson Announcement

April 23, 2025

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Anne Gibson, IIDA, NCIDQ, LEED AP, NOMA, has been named CannonDesign’s firmwide Interior Design Practice Leader — a newly established role created to build on the momentum of one of our firm’s most successful design practices. 

Interior design has long been essential to how we shape environments that support healing, learning, living, discovery and connection. This new role aims to build on and expand the strength of the practice, bringing dedicated leadership to help it grow, evolve and have an even greater impact across every market we serve.

“Interior design is fundamental to the environments we create and how they are experienced by people,” said David Polzin, CannonDesign’s executive director of design. “This new role reflects our belief in the power of thoughtfully conceived interior environments to shape innovation and value for our clients. Anne is exactly the right person to help us take this team and our work to the next level.” 

Since joining CannonDesign in 2023, Anne has led interior design on several of the firm’s most meaningful projects, including OhioHealth’s new Comprehensive Women’s Center — a destination hospital setting a new benchmark for women’s healthcare — and the Facility Planning Framework for Hennepin County Healthcare, where she brings a deeply strategic, layered approach to the design process. She has a passion for working across different space types and bringing the kind of interdisciplinary thinking needed to create rich, connected experiences for clients. 

Before joining CannonDesign, Anne was a design leader for landmark projects including the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital and worked with organizations such as Cleveland Clinic, Kohler, CBRE and Mass General Brigham. Her designs have earned top industry honors, including an AIA Award for Interior Architecture, Interior Design’s Best of Year Awards and multiple national and local IIDA awards. 

Testimonials

  • I’m incredibly honored to take on this role. What excites me most is the opportunity to partner with our diverse, talented teams to reimagine the future and redefine what’s possible for our clients. Through deep collaboration and relentless curiosity, we have the power to transform everyday experiences — creating spaces that connect people to purpose, possibility, and one another. This role is about championing that potential and ensuring the impact of our design is recognized and felt, both within our firm and in the world around us.

    Anne Gibson Interior Design Practice Leader

CannonDesign’s interiors practice is consistently ranked among the best in the industry. We're currently #10 overall on Interior Design magazine’s 2025 Giants List, #1 in education and #4 in healthcare interior design. In 2023, our firm was named the Firm of Distinction by the American Society of Interior Designers (ASID). 

Anne holds a BFA in Industrial Design from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and regularly contributes to national conversations about the future of design. In 2024, she took the stage at the Fast Company Innovation Festival to discuss the future of healthcare and design’s critical role in shaping it, and she facilitated a workshop for TEDx Chicago. In 2025, she’ll be hosting a workshop at NeoCon focused on activating experience design to improve health, work and wellness.    

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