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Paula Scher

Throughout her career, Paula Scher has explored using superscale typography in environmental graphics for interiors and urban environments—corporate headquarters, museums, performing arts centers and schools. At the same time, Scher has created large-scale typographic map paintings and prints that examine ideas of location and ways of seeing the world. Scher merged her environmental graphics and painting to create a pair of murals at the new Queens Metropolitan Campus in Forest Hills.

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    Paula Scher, USA (1993)

    Paula Scher is one of the most acclaimed graphic designers in the world. She has been a principal in the New York office of the distinguished international design consultancy Pentagram...

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    Throughout her career, Paula Scher has explored using superscale typography in environmental graphics for interiors and urban environments—corporate headquarters, museums, performing arts centers and schools. At the same time, Scher has created large-scale typographic map paintings and prints that examine ideas of location and ways of seeing the world. Scher merged her environmental graphics and painting to create a pair of murals at the new Queens Metropolitan Campus in Forest Hills.

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    Paula Scher, USA (1993)

    Paula Scher is one of the most acclaimed graphic designers in the world. She has been a principal in the New York office of the distinguished international design consultancy Pentagram since 1991, where she has designed identity and branding systems, environmental graphics, packaging and publications for a wide range of clients that includes, among others, Citibank, Microsoft, Bloomberg, Shake Shack, the Museum of Modern Art, Tiffany & Co, the High Line, the Public Theater, the Metropolitan Opera, the Sundance Institute and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

    She is the author of “Make It Bigger” (Princeton Architectural Press, 2002) “MAPS” (Princeton Architectural Press, 2011) and “Works” (Unit Editions, 2017). Scher holds a BFA from the Tyler School of Art and a Doctor of Fine Arts Honoris Causa from the Corcoran College of Art and Design, the Maryland Institute College of Art and Moore College of Art and Design. A documentary on her and her work can be seen in the 2017 Netflix series Abstract: The Art of Design.

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