Paula Scher (born October 6, 1948, Washington D.C) is an American graphic designer, painter and art educator in design. She also served as the first female principal at Pentagram, which she joined in 1991.
Design really can be anything.
Marketing is neither good nor evil.
Identities are the beginning of everything. They are how something is recognized and understood. What could be better than that?
Marketing is a necessary part of the creative process.
What I hate is when something I've done is replaced by something better than what I've done. It's really embarrassing.
You can't say there shouldn't be marketing and (that) marketing is a bad thing.
If I know something well, it no longer makes me say "wow" even if it's really terrific, even if it's a great iteration of it, because I know it well.
My expectation is that technology always changes.
Your name is Windows. Why are you a flag?
What you do is look at yourself and find your own way to address the fact that the times have changed and that you have to pay attention. You can't be a designer and say, "Oh, this is timeless".
I do different things. I'm a designer. I'm a painter.
I don't want people to think about my age. Notbecause I don't want them to know my age, I just don't want them to think about it, I don't want itto be a factor.
New Zealand looks like the future to me
Design always has a purpose.
Creativity has to do with what came before you immediately, not what came before you a long time ago.
The work needs to get out of your head and on to the table, and it needs to be done from the heart.
I never thought I'd be able to design all the things I've been able to design. I thought that I'd be far more limited to a specific kind of work, and I've been able to establish an incredibly broad practice in all different ways, and it's because the expectations have gotten elevated.
Some people are in stultifying environments where there are rigid rules and rituals and they need that to thrive, where other people are just asphyxiated by stuff like that.
When I don't know all the rules I'm just wild.
If people that made products didn't market them and sell them we'd have no economy and nobody would be working.