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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
Teacher
Washington
District of Columbia
Designer
Painter
Different
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The goal of design is to raise the expectation of what design can be
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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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When I don't know all the rules I'm just wild.
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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 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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The best way to accomplish serious design ... is to be totally and completely unqualified for the job.
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Technology is something that grows and changes, and what I need to do is find out what it can do so it can do what I want it to do. And I want it to do whatever I want it to do really fast. And it's fantastic.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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We don't do everything the same way we always did it. We just don't.
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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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What makes me say wow continually changes. It changes based on what I know.
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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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Marketing is not inherently bad. That's just dumb. That's said by somebody that isn't doing enough work.
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Beige is the color of indecision.
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