The Brownstone

1973, written by the graphic designer Paula Scher. \"We lost count of the reshuffling of tenants shortly after the bears, who were trying to get to sleep for the winter, moved up to the second floor to get away from Miss Cat's loud piano -- but then she objected to the cooking smells from the pigs who had moved down, and besides the dancing kangaroos on the third floor were now keeping the bears awake. Finally though landlord owl works it out so that each tenant can do his thing undisturbed and undisturbing. Comic bookish city humor for the susceptible, with each move plotted out in Stan Mack's cartoon cutaways of the building.\" -- Kirkus Review

Scher, Paula

Pantheon Books

Six animal families have trouble finding the right apartment in a brownstone building.

Random House Childrens Books

Paula Scher: Works presents the most extensive monograph of Scher's career to date, featuring over three hundred projects 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 decades-long engagement with Pentagram. Coedited by Tony Brook and Adrian Shaughnessy, 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. Central chapters look at her innovative approach to identity design and environmental graphics and its impact on contemporary New York's urban fabric--as seen in work for clients such as MoMA, Charter Schools, the High Line, and Shake Shack--as well as her logos for global corporations and cultural institutions. A large section on authorship is devoted to the designer's socially and politically motivated posters, New York Times Op-Ed illustrations, and campaign work. The book also provides the most up-to-date look at Scher's idiosyncratic, hand-painted maps, a prolific artistic practice that complements her still-growing graphic legacy, as well as her longstanding collaboration with The Public Theater, which spans over twenty years.

Paula Scher: Works

Arts & Photography

Graphic Design

Thames&Hudson

A practical guide for compiling a portfolio offers examples and assignments for newspaper design, retail design, book jackets, political posters, record packages, magazine design, and promotional design

Graphic Design Portfolio: How to Make a Good One

History & Criticism

Watson/Guptill

Tells the stories of celebrities' honeymoons, looks at unusual wedding customs, traces the history of the honeymoon tradition, and offers quotations on marriage

The Honeymoon Book: A Tribute to the Last Ritual of Sexual Innocence

UNKNO

Hipgnosis was the biggest and best graphic design firm for the biggest and best bands of the 60s and 70s. Formed by Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey Powell in London in 1968 (with the addition of Throbbing Gristle's Peter Christopherson in 1974), Hipgnosis specialized in creative photography for the music business, making classic album covers for bands and musicians like Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Electric Light Orchestra, Genesis, 10cc, Yes, Peter Gabriel, The Gods, Black Sabbath, Rainbow, Paul McCartney, Syd Barrett, Scorpions and Styx, among others. Over the course of its 15 year existence, Hipgnosis produced timeless rock iconography--everybody knows at least one Hipgnosis cover, thanks to Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon. The firm's inventive takes on the themes or titles of any given album opened up a new visual language in album cover art, one in which theatrical tableaux, trick photography and logo design played notable roles. For the Love of Vinyl is the first book to survey Storm and Powell's output in detail, focusing on more than 60 package designs--from cover to label--described with entertaining detail by the team who created them. Also included are short essays by musicians (such as Pink Floyd's Nick Mason and artists (British Pop artist Peter Blake) and fellow designers (Paula Scher) on their favorite Hipgnosis covers, as well as previously unseen photographs and ephemera. Complementing all this material is a lengthy critical-historical text examining Hipgnosis and its legacy. For the Love of Vinyl is the rock book of 2008. Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey Powell are award-winning graphic designers and the founders of Hipgnosis.

For the Love of Vinyl: The Album Art of Hipgnosis

Thorgerson, Storm

Mason, Nick

Powell, Aubrey

Blake, Peter

PictureBox

Make It Bigger

An outspoken voice in the world of graphic design for more than twenty years, Paula Scher has developed a worldwide reputation for her bold, modern graphics and her incisive, sometimes stinging, critiques of the design profession. In Make in Bigger, Scher candidly reveals her thoughts on design practice, drawing on her own experiences as one of the leading designers in the United States, and possibly the most famous female graphic designer in the world. Pointed and funny, it is an instructive guide for all those who navigate the difficult path between clients, employees, corporate structures, artists, and design professionals. Make it Bigger provides a survey of Scher's groundbreaking work, from her designs as art director at Columbia Records, to her identity for New York's Public Theater, to her recent work for the New York Times, Herman Miller, and the American Museum of Natural History's Rose Center planetarium.

Princeton Architectural Press

An outspoken voice in the world of graphic design for more than twenty years, Paul Scher has developed a worldwide reputation for her bold, modern graphics and her incisive critiques of the design profession.

In the early 1990s, celebrated graphic designer Paula Scher (Make It Bigger, 2002) began painting maps of the world as she sees it. The larger her canvases grew, the more expressionistic her geographical visions became. Displaying a powerful command of image and type, Scher brilliantly transformed the surface area of our world. Paintings as tall as twelve feet depict continents, countries, and cities swirling in torrents of information and undulating with colorful layers of hand-painted boundary lines, place-names, and provocative cultural commentary. Collected here for the first time, Paula Scher MAPS presents thirty-nine of Scher's obsessively detailed, highly personal creations.

Paula Scher: MAPS

Reference

Introducing a new line of smart and stylish gift products developed in collaboration with legendary international design firm Pentagram. These three pocket-sized journals are decorated with Pentagram partner Paula Scher's obsessively detailed, highly personal city maps. Tuck these lightweight journals in your bag for your next journey, or simply use them to jot notes on the go.

Paula Scher MAPS New York/Paris/London: Three Mini Journals

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The Brownstone

The Brownstone

Paula Scher: Works

Graphic Design Portfolio: How to Make a Good One

The Honeymoon Book: A Tribute to the Last Ritual of Sexual Innocence

For the Love of Vinyl: The Album Art of Hipgnosis

Make It Bigger

Make It Bigger

Paula Scher: MAPS

Paula Scher MAPS New York/Paris/London: Three Mini Journals