Paula Scher

Paula Scher

Paula Scher is one of the top influential graphics in the world. Scher works the line between pop culture and fine art in her work. Since 1991, Paula has been a partner in the New York office of Pentagram. There she began he career as an art director in the 1970s and early 80s, where her approach to typography became highly influential. In the mid-1990s her landmark identity for The Public Theater fused high and low into a new symbology for cultural institutions, and her recent architectural collaborations have re-imagined the urban landscape as a dynamic environment of dimensional graphic design.

Scher has been the recipient of hundreds of honours including the National Design Award and the AIGA medal. She is an established artist exhibiting worldwide, and her designs are in the permanent collection of the MOMA, the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, the Library of Congress, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and other institutions. A documentary on Scher and her work can be seen in the Netflix series “Abstract:  The Art of Design.”  

Paula Scher is a popular contemporary American graphic designer. She has worked relentlessly to revolutionize the graphic design industry with her determination and creative work for over four decades.

Paula Scher, Bring in’Da Noise, Bring in’Da Funk ad campaign for The Public Theater, 1995–96. Courtesy of Pentagram
Logos by Paula Scher
Area Codes and Time Zones
Paula Scher – Area Codes and Time Zones, 2015 – https://www.pentagram.com/news/paula-scher-maps#22083
Box office Display in the Public Theater lobby. Courtesy of Pentagram.
Box office Display in the Public Theater lobby. Courtesy of Pentagram.
Dancing on Her Knees poster (left) and Him poster (right) designed for The Public Theater in 1996 and 1995 respectively
The Diva is Dismissed poster (left) Book of the Dead poster (right), designed for The Public Theater in 1994 and 2000 respectively
Design for Boston Record Sleeve 
Make It Bigger — A monograph of Paula Scher’s work

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