‘Paula Scher: Works'
Paula Scher’s monograph from Unit Editions is back in print in a new edition from Thames & Hudson.
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 newly updated softcover edition from Thames & Hudson. The 520-page book covers Scher’s career to date, featuring projects ranging from her early days in the music industry as an art director with CBS and Atlantic Records, through the launch of her first studio, Koppel & Scher, to her 33-year engagement with Pentagram.
Co-edited by Tony Brook and Adrian Shaughnessy and designed by Spin, 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. Other chapters look at her approach to identity design and environmental graphics and its impact on 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. The new edition has been updated with work for Berkeley Rep, Landmark Theatres and the National Women’s History Museum, among others.
A section on authorship is devoted to the designer’s socially and politically-motivated posters, New York Times Op-Ed illustrations and campaign work, and now features Scher’s massive Type Is Image installation currently on view at Die Neue Sammlung in Munich. The book also provides the most up-to-date look at Scher’s hand-painted maps, as well as her long standing collaboration with The Public Theater, which spans three decades.
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