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

Paula Scher

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Paula Scher
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: October 6
Designer
Graphic Designer
Painter
Teacher
Washington
District of Columbia
Macs
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Great design is serious, not solemn
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Words have meaning, type has spirit.
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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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Identities are the beginning of everything. They are how something is recognized and understood. What could be better than that?
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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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Some people are in stultifying environments where there are rigid rules and rituals and they need that to thrive, where other people are just asphyxiated by stuff like that.
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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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The best way to accomplish serious design ... is to be totally and completely unqualified for the job.
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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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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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Helvetica is the font of the Vietnam War.
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Planning involves considering how other people may use something.
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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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Beige is the color of indecision.
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I do different things. I'm a designer. I'm a painter.
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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 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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New Zealand looks like the future to me
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