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The work needs to get out of your head and on to the table, and it needs to be done from the heart.

Paula Scher

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Paula Scher
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: October 6
Designer
Graphic Designer
Painter
Teacher
Washington
District of Columbia
Heart
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Tables
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Your work gets destroyed by dumb people and it gets enhanced by smart people and it really doesn't have anything to do with marketing.
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Helvetica is the font of the Vietnam War.
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Planning involves considering how other people may use something.
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I always drew. I was, you know, the school artist. I was the person who made the posters for the prom. That's who I was.
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Identities are the beginning of everything. They are how something is recognized and understood. What could be better than that?
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I don't want being a woman to be a factor, or being short to bea factor, or being Jewish to be a factor, or anything that makes you outside some design normthat I don't understand anyway. That makes me nervous.
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