- Paula Scher
Paula Scher (born 1948 in
Washington D.C. ) is an Americangraphic design er and artist.Scher studied at the
Tyler School of Art inPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania , earning aBachelor of Fine Arts , and was awarded a Doctor of Fine ArtsHonoris Causa by theCorcoran College of Art and Design inWashington D.C. . In the 1970s she designed album covers forCBS Records andAtlantic Records , before moving intoart direction for magazines. She worked atTime Inc. before forming her own design firm, Koppel & Scher. Since 1991, she has been a principal at the New York office of the Pentagram design consultancy.Scher has been inducted into the
Art Directors Club Hall of Fame (1998), received theChrysler Design Award for Innovation in Design (2000), and a Gold Medal from theAmerican Institute of Graphic Arts (2001). Some of her work is in the permanent collection of theMuseum of Modern Art and theCooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum . Her album designs have earned her fourGrammy Award nominations.As an artist she is known for her large-scale paintings of
map s, covered with dense hand-painted labelling and information. She was involved in the planning of a new multi-use "urban center" in theMount Vernon Square neighborhood of Washington D.C., and teaches at theSchool of Visual Arts in New York.Scher married designer
Seymour Chwast in 1973, divorced him 5 years later, then remarried him in 1989. [ [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/12/garden/12paula.html "New York Times",] January 12, 2006]Books
* Scher, Paula. (2002) "Make it Bigger." New York: Princeton Architectural Press ISBN 1-56898-332-8
Magazine articles
* "Opinionated Maps – Typographic Paintings", by Paula Scher, "Baseline" 19, edited by Mike Daines & Hans Dieter Reichert, Bradbourne Publishing, 1994.
External links
* [http://www.mayastendhalgallery.com/paulaScherPage.html Paula Scher: The Maps] exhibition announcement (Nov. 3, 2005 - Jan. 21, 2006)
* [http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm?contentalias=paulascher Paula Scher bio] at AIGA.org
* [http://pentagram.com/en/partners/paula-scher.php Paula Scher bio] at pentagram.com* Hillmancurtis feature [http://www.hillmancurtis.com/hc_web/film_video/source/scher.html Paula Scher: Type is Image] (
QuickTime )
* [http://www.adcglobal.org/archive/hof/1998/?id=317 Art Directors Club biography, portrait and images of work]ee also
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List of AIGA medalists References
* Currey, Mason (November 10, 2005) [http://www.metropolismag.com/cda/story.php?artid=1632 "Paula Scher's Atlas of the World."] "Metropolis Magazine."
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