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

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Paula Scher
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: October 6
Designer
Graphic Designer
Painter
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Washington
District of Columbia
Painter
Different
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Helvetica is the font of the Vietnam War.
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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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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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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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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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Having no purpose is the function of art, so somebody else can look at it and ask a question. Design is different - you're supposed to understand what's going on. You can be delighted by it, intrigued by it, but you're supposed to know it's a hot dog stand.
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Great design is serious, not solemn
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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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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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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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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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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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The best way to accomplish serious design ... is to be totally and completely unqualified for the job.
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We don't do everything the same way we always did it. We just don't.
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Beige is the color of indecision.
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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 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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Marketing is not inherently bad. That's just dumb. That's said by somebody that isn't doing enough work.
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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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