Paula Scher at Design Indaba Conference 2013.

Graphic Design & Illustration/2013/25 min/Reel № 13.001

ByPaula Scher

Paula Scher on creativity as a small defiant act of misbehaving

The Best of the World's Creativity/Recorded 2013

A close reading, kept within reach.

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Paula Scher takes graphic design & illustration as a lens on the larger question the festival keeps returning to: what design owes to the people and places it works among. The talk moves from specific projects toward a broader argument about practice.

Recorded in USA in 2013, the conversation is grounded in Paula's own working method — the compromises, the constraints, and the moments where the work taught them something they didn't expect.

The closing turn is characteristic of the archive: less a conclusion than a provocation, handed to the audience to carry into their own disciplines.

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"Small breakthroughs and how they came to be" was the theme for Paula Scher’s presentation at Design Indaba Conference 2013.

Paula Scher

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Paula Scher

New York/USA

Paula Scher is a graphic designer and partner at Pentagram.