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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.

Paula Scher

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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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