Design Indaba: Paula Scher: The similarities between artists and scientists, how tech is like the music business and more from the multi-faceted designer

Design Indaba: Paula Scher

Influential American artist and designer Paula Scher kicked off this year’s Design Indaba with a talk she titled “Small Breakthroughs, and How They Came to Be.” During her presentation, she detailed both the struggles and solutions involved in several of her most famous projects, from the graphic identity of…

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Maps Mini Journals: Three notebooks decorated with Paula Scher’s illustrated maps

Maps Mini Journals

Paula Scher’s non-traditional approach to cartography formed the basis of the book “Maps,” a collection of her large-scale paintings that purposefully distort representations of famous cities. As a follow-up, Princeton Architectural Press has released a mini-journal series cloaked in Scher’s illustrations. Not only do they make for a gorgeous…

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