On Monday evening I attended Paula Scher’s lecture for FIT’s Visiting Artist Program. I could probably ramble for several paragraphs swooning over almost everything that came out of her mouth. However, “das es borink” so here’s the gist of it: I admire not only her artistic talent (in both design and painting), but also her intelligence, wit and passion.
She started with a story of getting lost as a child trying to find her house because they all looked the same—if all the houses looked the same, were all the people inside the same too? It seemed like a good foundation to react against the Modernist design that she’s talked about disliking. (via)
For more photos and an excellent recap you may want to read this post by Michael Surtees.
NYC Transit painting (and magnification) by Paula Scher…
Through an acute understanding of the powerful relationship between type and image, Scher harmonizes witty with tragic, the methodical with the intuitive, and the personal with the universal in these new paintings. Dynamic images are saturated with layers of elaborate line, explosions of words, and bright colors creating a plethora of visual information that produces an emotive response to places lived, visited, and imagined. Scher’s maps also reflect the abundance of information that inundates us daily through newspapers, radio, television, and the Internet to reveal the fact that much of what we hear and read is strewn with inaccuracy, distorted facts, and subjectivity. (via)
KNARF’s Think Campaign for The School of Visual Arts conveniently morphs everyday objects (toilet paper, sugar, napkins, tray linings, etc.) into creative resources. The copy reads:
Creative thinkers such as Stefan Sagmeister, Paula Scher and Milton Glaser teach classes at The School of Visual Arts. This campaign reflects that tradition by encouraging people everywhere to “think” while also giving them a place to write down their thoughts. (via)
