Paula Scher
Paula Scher (b. 1948) is an American graphic designer, illustrator, painter, and art educator. She was educated at the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, D.C. and later pursued a BFA at the Tyler School of Art in Elkins Park, PA. Following graduation in 1970, Scher moved to New York City and began working as a layout artist in the children’s book division at Random House. Throughout the 1970s she worked for CBS Records, designing upwards of 150 album covers each year. After stepping down as Art Director for CBS Records in 1982, she practiced as a freelancer before founding the design firm Koppel & Scher in collaboration with Terry Koppel in 1984. In 1990, she joined Pentagram as a partner. Since the... more.
We have 40 objects that Paula Scher has been involved with.
![A vertically rectangular poster framed with a white border depicting a bluescale image of the head of a woman, Jenifer Lewis, with a bouffant, 1960s hairdo, contrasted against a bright yellow, solid background. She has an unrestrained, urgent, possibly distressed expression on her face, with a jaw-dropped open mouth, wrinkled forehead, long-eyelashed eyes wide, and eyebrows raised. The left half of her face is in shadow, slightly obscuring her features, while the right half is overexposed and bright white. Black sans serif text, outlined in orange, in bold, capitalised letters of varying weights and spacing, expands from her mouth, as though she is shouting or singing the words, in a windmill-like projection with four diagonal axes. Going clockwise from the left the text states [THE / DIVA / IS DISMISSED / CO-WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY / CHARLES / RANDOLPH-WRIGHT / CO-WRITTEN AND PERFORMED BY / JENIFER LEWIS / LIMITED ENGAGEMENT! / NOW PLAYING!]. Most of the words are oriented from left to right on a diagonal, except for two words, [THE] & [CHARLES], which are oriented vertically. In the top right corner, aligned vertically along the right margin, is some additional text, which states: [THE], which is orange and aligned right to left and upside down; [PUBLIC] which is black with an orange outline and aligned vertically top down; [THEATER], which is black with an orange outline and aligned horizontally. Below this is the logo of the theater, a black circle with a stylised orange [S] inside and the words [SHIVA / THEATER] in orange capitals. Below the logo is the address and phone number of the theater; [425 LAFAYETTE STREET (212) 598-7150]. In the top left corner, in tiny black font is some text that is illegible, aligned vertically along the left margin.](https://images.collection.cooperhewitt.org/80074_7f51450f46fe4e37_n.jpg "Poster, The Diva is Dismissed, 1994")
![Poster, WASP, Patter for the Floating Lady/The Zig-Zag Woman (a play written by Steve Martin) [Poster for The Public Theater, New York]](https://images.collection.cooperhewitt.org/65475_e89c1cad84998383_n.jpg "Poster, WASP, Patter for the Floating Lady/The Zig-Zag Woman (a play written by Steve Martin) [Poster for The Public Theater, New York]")
