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What makes me say wow continually changes. It changes based on what I know.

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Paula Scher
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: October 6
Designer
Graphic Designer
Painter
Teacher
Washington
District of Columbia
Based
Makes
Wow
Continually
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We don't do everything the same way we always did it. We just don't.
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Whatever you design[/make/build], use it to raise the expectations of what can be achieved
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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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When I don't know all the rules I'm just wild.
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Design really can be anything.
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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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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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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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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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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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Helvetica is the font of the Vietnam War.
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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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Creativity has to do with what came before you immediately, not what came before you a long time ago.
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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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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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My fear is that when you become an expert in anything then the expectation somehow makes you ordinary, in a way, because you become the firm that does that, or you become the person that does that. You really need to change the form to make the discovery.
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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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