Scher, Paula, 1948-
Dates
- Existence: 1948-10-06-
Nationality
American
Found in 21 Collections and/or Records:
2004: In a Word / Scher, Paula., 2004
An article by Charles McGrath titled the Year of (Your Catchphrase Here) is illustrated by calligraphic colored drawings by Paula Scher. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Alphabet Delight, 2007
This dinner set was produced with the help of George Mill. Each plate and the napkin contain a different design composed of letters from the Serbian alphabet. This is a first edition of a unique limited collection. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Baseline. No.8 / Mike Daines, editor ; Kindersley D ; Dwiggens WA ; Koch R., 1986
Bring in 'da Noise Bring in 'da Funk / Scher, Paula, designer., 1999
Paula Scher and Lisa Mazur of Pentagram designed this program for the award winning Broadway production. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Critique: The Big Crit. No.13/Fall / Scher P., 1999
This issue includes award winning designs is several categories including packaging, advertising, brochures, type design and interactive media. The salome poster on page 45 is a good example of visual poetics integrated into graphic design. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
[Education Life] / Scher, Paula., 2011
Although there is no atribution, the mural depicted on this issue is definitely the work of Paula Scher. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Graphics' Grande Dame Remakes the World in Type / Goldwasser, Amy; Scher P; Chwast S., 2006
This article is a review of Paula Scher's first gallery exhibition of her maps at Maya Stendal Gallery in New York, an interview on her methods of work and illustrations of her loft space. It mentions that all of the paintings in the show were sold. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
[Illustration for Richard Powers' "Losing Our Souls, Bit by Bit"] / Scher, Paula., 1998
Make It Bigger / Scher, Paula., 2002
Paula Scher traces her design work and career in sections titled Corporate Politics 101, Style Wars and In the Company of Men. Her graphic designs have a concrete and visual poetic sensibility. One of them, "an opinionated map," that is held by the Sackner Archive is reproduced on page 134. In the first section of the book, Scher describes and illustrates her record cover designs. Style Wars concerns designing record, books, logos, marketing graphics, posters and painted maps. The final section concerns Scher's involvement with Pentagram, designing for the Public Theater and Broadway, logos, magazines, architectural design and fabric design. Scher writes, "I began painting small opinionated maps in the early nineties. Over time they grew larger and more obsessive. In the late nineties and now the map paintings serve as an antidote to laborious corporate design projects frustrated by indecisive committees." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Posters / Pentagram ; Scher P., 1997
This book also includes examples of industrial design by the firm. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Print: Print's Regional Design Annual. No.5/Sep-Oct / Rodchenko A ; Lissitzky E ; Moholy-Nagy L ; Heller S ; Poynor R ; Gerlovin V ; Gerlovina R ; Scher P ; Lupton E., 1997
Ellen Lupton reviewed The Struggle for Utopia: Rodchenko, Lissitzky, Moholy-Nagy, 1917-1946. Steven Heller contributed an interview with Rick Poynor, design writer and editor of Eye Magazine. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
RACE: Still too Hot to Touch / Scher, Paula., 2010
Paula Scher's drawing for an article by Matt Bai illustrates his essay about the racial implications of the firing of Shirley Sherrod, an African American Georgian bureaucrat. The drawing of the word RACE is scrawled, black and calligraphic over a barely visible red drawn RACE and horizontal lines that reflect the emotions of the political incident. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Serbian Publicum Calendar 2007: Gobbledy-Gook [Press Kit]. No. 17 / Paula Scher; Mill G., 2007
Spezial Fotografie. No.26 / Peter Beard., 2001
This issue purchased in Dublin depicts a cover image of a female nude; the cover of an issue featured on Amazon.com depicts an African animal scene. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
The Bad Business of Media Merger / Scher, Paula., 2000
Paula Scher illustrates an article with the letters AOLTW made up of the brand names in the two merging companies. the article was written by Tom Rosenstiel and Bill Kovach. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
The Making of 2007 Publicum Calendar: Gobbledy-Gook / Paula Scher; George Mill., 2007
The Making of 2007 Publicum Calendar: Gobbledy-Gook / Paula Scher; George Mill., 2007
The Maps: Recent Paintings / Scher, Paula., 2005
Paula Scher has painted large maps with dense and colorful geographic names of the locations. The maps include Africa, Europe, Florida, Los Angeles and Long Island. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
The Public Theatre / Scher, Paula, designer., 1998
This publication consists of the design material for three seasons of theater presentations in an "evolving graphic language developed and produced by Paula Scher and her design team at Pentagram." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
What We Can Learn from Britain about Iran / Scher, Paula; Takeyh, Ray; Nasr, Vali; Scher P., 2007
Paula Scher contributed an Op-Art illustration titled "Diagram of a Blog." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Graphic design 10
- Typography 5
- Shaped poetry 4
- Calendar 3
- Calligraphic text 3
- Critical text 3
- Map 3
- Political poetry 3
- Conventional non-fiction 2
- Visual art 2
- Concrete poetry 1
- Diagram 1
- Documentation 1 + ∧ less