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I do different things. I'm a designer. I'm a painter.

Paula Scher

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Paula Scher
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: October 6
Designer
Graphic Designer
Painter
Teacher
Washington
District of Columbia
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Designer
Painter
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The goal of design is to raise the expectation of what design can be
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I get to work on things I've never done before and I get better at it, and I can do things that are innovative. Which I've done in my fifties, and want to continue to do through my sixties.
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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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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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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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Planning involves considering how other people may use something.
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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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You can't say there shouldn't be marketing and (that) marketing is a bad thing.
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When I don't know all the rules I'm just wild.
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Whatever you design[/make/build], use it to raise the expectations of what can be achieved
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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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I'm not from a generation of kids that grew up on a Mac.
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I think Apple is a wonderful example of spectacular marketing and I love having my iPod. There are the naysayers who say that nyah, nyah, it breaks and I think well, I don't like what Microsoft made...
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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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Beige is the color of indecision.
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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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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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Words have meaning, type has spirit.
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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.
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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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