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I'm not from a generation of kids that grew up on a Mac.

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Paula Scher
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: October 6
Designer
Graphic Designer
Painter
Teacher
Washington
District of Columbia
Generation
Generations
Grew
Kids
Macs

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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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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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Design really can be anything.
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Words have meaning, type has spirit.
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You can't say there shouldn't be marketing and (that) marketing is a bad thing.
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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 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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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 love the big scale and immediate impact of posters. They're my favourite things to design.
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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 don't want being a woman to be a factor, or being short to bea factor, or being Jewish to be a factor, or anything that makes you outside some design normthat I don't understand anyway. That makes me nervous.
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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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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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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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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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What makes me say wow continually changes. It changes based on what I know.
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When I don't know all the rules I'm just wild.
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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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I never thought I'd be able to design all the things I've been able to design. I thought that I'd be far more limited to a specific kind of work, and I've been able to establish an incredibly broad practice in all different ways, and it's because the expectations have gotten elevated.
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