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We don't do everything the same way we always did it. We just don't.

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Paula Scher
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: October 6
Designer
Graphic Designer
Painter
Teacher
Washington
District of Columbia
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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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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 love the big scale and immediate impact of posters. They're my favourite things to design.
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You need to be able to ride past the technology by understanding what it can do, who you are, and where you want to take it. You don't want technology to lead you you want to lead it, but it's very hard to do that when you're in the middle of it.
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New Zealand looks like the future to me
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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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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 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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Design really can be anything.
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When I don't know all the rules I'm just wild.
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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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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 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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Words have meaning, type has spirit.
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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 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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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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What makes me say wow continually changes. It changes based on what I know.
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