The High Line

Paula Scher

Originally built for freight trains in the 1930s, the High Line is an elevated rail structure that has been turned into Manhattan's most popular park. Pentagram designed the identity and various fundraising and promotional pieces to help gain support for the initiative. Once the city ultimately approved the plan to revitalize the High Line as a pedestrian park and promenade, Pentagram was invited to work with James Corner Field Operations to design the signage and environmental graphics.

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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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    Originally built for freight trains in the 1930s, the High Line is an elevated rail structure that has been turned into Manhattan's most popular park. Pentagram designed the identity and various fundraising and promotional pieces to help gain support for the initiative. Once the city ultimately approved the plan to revitalize the High Line as a pedestrian park and promenade, Pentagram was invited to work with James Corner Field Operations to design the signage and environmental graphics.

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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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