Paula Scher is one of the most influential living designers. I mean, she’s included in the Netflix documentary series, Abstract, so yeah. She’s kind of a big deal.

Paula Scher began her career in the 1970s when she moved to New York and took a job as a layout artist for Random House doing children’s books. Soon after, she became an art director in the city, doing album artwork for Columbia records and eventually founding her own company with a friend from her college days.

Scher’s bold use of typography, however, is what put her on the map as a design innovator and of course, queen of Supergraphics. In 1991 she became the first female principal at the famous design studio Pentagram in New York City and had continued to do incredible work throughout her life.

Paula Scher is also well known for her artistic work painting complex maps inspired by her late father and her work as a design educator.

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