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Helvetica is the font of the Vietnam War.

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Paula Scher
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: October 6
Designer
Graphic Designer
Painter
Teacher
Washington
District of Columbia
Helvetica
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Vietnam
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My work is play. And I play when I design. I even looked it up in the dictionary, to make sure that I actually do that, and the definition of “play,” number one, was “engaging in a childlike activity or endeavor,” and number two was “gambling.” And I realize I do both when I’m designing.
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The job of the designer is to make things understandable, usable, accessible, enjoyable... important to a public, that involves the public.
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Design really can be anything.
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I'm not from a generation of kids that grew up on a Mac.
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We don't do everything the same way we always did it. We just don't.
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I know that in my own work I'm able to do all kinds of things I never thought I'd be able to do.
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Stefan Sagmeister says that nobody innovates past forty-five, but I think he's wrong. I want to keep doing it.
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As a painter I make up projects for myself to express myself. And there's no client, there's no direction.
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What a designer does is he makes things possible that you didn't imagine could exist before, and it makes the world a better place. You know, it's a great thing to be doing. A fine artist does that, too, but they make the expression for themselves, not for others' use.
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You need to be able to ride past the technology by understanding what it can do, who you are, and where you want to take it. You don't want technology to lead you you want to lead it, but it's very hard to do that when you're in the middle of it.
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Some people are in stultifying environments where there are rigid rules and rituals and they need that to thrive, where other people are just asphyxiated by stuff like that.
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If I get up every day with the optimism that I have the capacity for growth, then that’s success for me.
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The best way to accomplish serious design ... is to be totally and completely unqualified for the job.
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Be culturally literate, because if you don't have any understanding of the world you live in and the culture you live in, you're not going to express anything to anybody else.
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What I hate is when something I've done is replaced by something better than what I've done. It's really embarrassing.
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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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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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What makes me say wow continually changes. It changes based on what I know.
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When I don't know all the rules I'm just wild.
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Planning is design. As a designer what I tend to do, and what's different from being a painter, is that I interact with other people, and the people have things they need to have happen.
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