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Paula Scher and Lisa Mazur of Pentagram designed this program for the award winning Broadway production. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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.

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.

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.

This book also includes examples of industrial design by the firm. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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.

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.