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Recent articles about Paula Scher

Heavy rotationIssue 104, Spring 2023
Feature

                                            From 1977-92, the Album Cover Albums presented a broad spectrum of record sleeve art, unintentionally raising questions about the way graphic design for popular culture is experienced, interpreted and preserved. By Christopher Wilson [EXTRACT]            
Two cheers for publishingIssue 98, Spring 2019
Feature

                                            
	A two-volume book packed with graphic design history is a visual blockbuster, but does little for scholarship. By Rick Poynor            
The accessible eliteIssue 86, Autumn 2013
Feature

                                            Linda Kwon reports on a design conference that aims to fight the ‘velvet rope syndrome’            
More than a genderIssue 85, Spring 2013
Review

                                                ‘I never set out to be the only woman blah-blah,’ insists Paula Scher, the first…                        
Reputations: Paula ScherIssue 77, Autumn 2010
Feature

                                            ‘I am fascinated by organisations and the way people behave in power structures.’            
The boy’s book of PentagramIssue 11, Winter 1993
Review

                                                Pentagram are masters of self-promotion. ‘Books win friends,’ says Theo Crosby, ‘and buying friendship is…                        
Sticks in the mindIssue 69, Autumn 2008
Feature

                                            
	Does anyone care about posters, or are they just an ego-trip for the designers who still make them?            
Changing of the guardIssue 8, Autumn 1992
Opinion

                                            
	American graphic design is divided. The once rebellious avant-garde has become the status quo, while the new guard shun their elders’ example and adhere to few of the old ‘isms’            

Recent blog posts about Paula Scher

Graphic design live #15

27 February 2024
Graphic design, Events and exhibitions

Paula Scher in Munich; Type Tuesday with Astrid Stavro and Luca Pitoni; Ellen Lupton in New York and online; Futuress and Brand New Life in Basel; UVA and Barbara Kruger in London.

Current and upcoming events that have piqued our interest: exhibitions, conferences, talks and workshops …

Graphic design live #5

7 September 2022
Design education, Design history, Graphic design, Illustration, Posters, Visual culture, Events and exhibitions

Air-India’s Maharaja in New York; Otl Aicher in Zurich; AGI Open in Trieste; BBC’s ‘Kingdom of Cardboard’ in London

Here are details of four of the many international events taking place during September 2022 …

Noted #83

20 September 2017
Graphic design, Illustration, New media, Typography, Visual culture

Sea Prayer, Poster House, Pit, Straight No Chaser and National 2

Here are a few things – VR journalism, Poster House, new issues of Pit and…

Books received #13

27 February 2015
Design history, Graphic design, Illustration, Photography, Reviews, Typography

Ligne B, Editorial Design, T: A Typology of T-Shirts, Greetings from Retro Design and The Type Taster

Here’s another round-up of some of the design-related titles piling up at Eye’s Shoreditch office…

Plus is more

7 December 2014
Graphic design, Posters, Reviews, Typography

The cover of Unit Editions’ Type Plus highlights the book’s arguments, writes Sarah Snaith. Designers…

Chat show

11 October 2013
Design education, Design history, Graphic design, Magazines, Typography, Visual culture

Pam Bowman and Matt Edgar report from day one of the AGI Open conference in London, where the theme was ‘dialogue’

London’s AGI Open set out to shun the standard conference show-and-tell format, and to bring…

No pressure

15 April 2013
Design history, Graphic design, Illustration

A glimpse at the ethos behind Alliance Graphique Internationale and the upcoming AGI Open London 2013

The public profile of the Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI) is not especially high, which is…