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Paula Scher : works

By: Contributor(s): Series: Unit 37Publisher: London : Unit Editions, 2018Copyright date: ©2018.Edition: [Concise edition]Description: 315 pages : illustrations (mostly colour), portraits ; 26 cmISBN:
  • 9780995666474
  • 0995666474
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Contents:
Paula Scher: Essay and interview / Adrian Shaughnessy -- Music 1976-1987 : Album covers, posters and identities -- Identity 1997-2017 : Arts, culture and business -- Environment 200-2017 : Schools, cities and offices -- Authorship 1990-2016 : Art, activism and commentary -- Books 1984-2014 : Photography, politics and design-for-designers -- The public theater 1994-2017 : Identity, posters and Shakespeare -- Afterword / Tony Brook -- End matter.
Summary: This definitive, chronological visual record spans Paula’s early days in the music industry as an art director with CBS and Atlantic records; the launch of her first studio, Koppel & Scher; and her 25-year engagement with Pentagram. Co-edited by Tony Brook and Adrian Shaughnessy, the book organizes Scher’s work chronologically into several thematic sections. It opens with a long interview with the designer, then moves into her record covers from the 1970s and 80s. Central chapters look at her innovative approach to identity design and environmental graphics and its impact on contemporary New York’s urban fabric—as seen in work for clients from MoMA to Charter Schools; from the High Line to Shake Shack—as well as her logos for global corporations and cultural institutions. A large section on authorship is devoted to the designer’s socially and politically-motivated posters, New York Times Op-Ed illustrations and campaign work. The book also provides the most up-to-date look at Scher’s idiosyncratic hand-painted maps, a prolific artistic practice that complements her still-growing graphic legacy, as well as her longstanding collaboration with The Public Theater, which spans over 20 years.
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"Paula Scher: Works, the monograph of the groundbreaking graphic designer and Pentagram partner first published by Unit Editions in 2017, is now back in print in a new paperback "concise edition" after the original edition quickly sold out". -- taken from www.pentagram.com 30/10/18.

Paula Scher: Essay and interview / Adrian Shaughnessy -- Music 1976-1987 : Album covers, posters and identities -- Identity 1997-2017 : Arts, culture and business -- Environment 200-2017 : Schools, cities and offices -- Authorship 1990-2016 : Art, activism and commentary -- Books 1984-2014 : Photography, politics and design-for-designers -- The public theater 1994-2017 : Identity, posters and Shakespeare -- Afterword / Tony Brook -- End matter.

This definitive, chronological visual record spans Paula’s early days in the music industry as an art director with CBS and Atlantic records; the launch of her first studio, Koppel & Scher; and her 25-year engagement with Pentagram.

Co-edited by Tony Brook and Adrian Shaughnessy, the book organizes Scher’s work chronologically into several thematic sections. It opens with a long interview with the designer, then moves into her record covers from the 1970s and 80s. Central chapters look at her innovative approach to identity design and environmental graphics and its impact on contemporary New York’s urban fabric—as seen in work for clients from MoMA to Charter Schools; from the High Line to Shake Shack—as well as her logos for global corporations and cultural institutions.

A large section on authorship is devoted to the designer’s socially and politically-motivated posters, New York Times Op-Ed illustrations and campaign work. The book also provides the most up-to-date look at Scher’s idiosyncratic hand-painted maps, a prolific artistic practice that complements her still-growing graphic legacy, as well as her longstanding collaboration with The Public Theater, which spans over 20 years.

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