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Great design is serious, not solemn

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Paula Scher
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: October 6
Designer
Graphic Designer
Painter
Teacher
Washington
District of Columbia
Solemn
Design
Serious
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I do different things. I'm a designer. I'm a painter.
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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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All the little risks I took were sort of like all the apartments I had moved into: I was finding the right spot.
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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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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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You can build an ordinary hot dog stand or you can build a spectacular one, and you can do it sometimes without that much difference in money - if somebody thinks about it.
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We become different people and we adapt to our environments, but that doesn't have anything to do with being creative.
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Whatever you design[/make/build], use it to raise the expectations of what can be achieved
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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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What makes me say wow continually changes. It changes based on what I know.
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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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My fear is that when you become an expert in anything then the expectation somehow makes you ordinary, in a way, because you become the firm that does that, or you become the person that does that. You really need to change the form to make the discovery.
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Creativity has to do with what came before you immediately, not what came before you a long time ago.
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If people that made products didn't market them and sell them we'd have no economy and nobody would be working.
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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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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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Marketing is not inherently bad. That's just dumb. That's said by somebody that isn't doing enough work.
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Design really can be anything.
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New Zealand looks like the future to me
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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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