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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
Designer
Painter
Different
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It could be that going to work is better than being home. But you should never think of days as the weekend. It should all be the same, it should all be stuff you want to do. And when it isn't then you have to change it, and you have to think about how you change it.
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What makes me say wow continually changes. It changes based on what I know.
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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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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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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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When I don't know all the rules I'm just wild.
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I'm not from a generation of kids that grew up on a Mac.
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Whatever you design[/make/build], use it to raise the expectations of what can be achieved
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I think that the notion of being creative is the notion that, inwardly, you assume that many things are possible. And that you can try these things and that something will happen.
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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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Helvetica is the font of the Vietnam War.
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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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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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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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Beige is the color of indecision.
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Planning involves considering how other people may use something.
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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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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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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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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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