Paula Scher is an internationally known and respected designer and artist. She was born October 6, 1948 in Washington D.C. and currently resides in New York City. She moved there after graduating from Tyler School of Art in Elkins, PA in 1970 with a BFA. Scher has taught at various art schools including School of Visual Arts in New York and Tyler School of Arts after receiving her Doctorate of Fine Arts from Corcoran College of Art & Design.
Scher's most well known designs are logos and packaging from companies like Citi bank, Tiffany & co., Target, and many others. Her designs include work in identity design, packaging design, publication design, and environmental graphics.
Her current personal artwork is a painting series started in the early 1990's and is based on topological maps which are skewed to her point of view of that place. These maps comment on our world of information overload in a deeply personal way.
Quotes from Paula Scher about her art:
"My paintings are personal, overt, admitting skewing of information."
"I didn't stop being a graphic designer to become a painter. One informs the other and I am richer for both."
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