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Scher studied at the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and the Corcoran College of Art and Design in Washington D.C., earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts. In the 1970s she designed album covers for CBS Recordings, before moving into art direction for magazines. She worked at Time Inc. before forming her own design firm, Koppel & Scher. Since 1991, she has been a principal at the New York office of the Pentagram design consultancy. Tyler School of Art is Temple Universitys school of art, located on a separate campus in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania and offering BFA and MFA degrees. ... Nickname: City of Brotherly Love, Philly, the Quaker City Motto: Philadelphia maneto (Let brotherly love continue) Location in Pennsylvania Coordinates: Country United States State Pennsylvania County Philadelphia Founded October 27, 1682 Incorporated October 25, 1701 Mayor John F. Street (D) Area    - City 369. ... The Corcoran College of Art and Design, founded in 1890, is the only professional college of art and design in Washington, DC. The school is affilliated with the Corcoran Gallery of Art. ... Aerial photo (looking NW) of the Washington Monument and the White House in Washington, DC. Washington, D.C., officially the District of Columbia (also known as D.C.; Washington; the Nations Capital; the District; and, historically, the Federal City) is the capital city and administrative district of the United... The Bachelor of Fine Arts, usually abbreviated BFA, is the standard undergraduate degree for students seeking a professional education in the visual or performing arts. ... -1... CBS (an abbreviation for Columbia Broadcasting System, its former legal name) is one of the largest television networks, and formerly one of the largest radio networks, in the United States. ... The Academy Awards are the oldest awards ceremony for achievements in motion pictures. ... Time Inc. ... Midtown Manhattan, looking north from the Empire State Building, 2005 New York City (officially named the City of New York) is the most populous city in the state of New York and the entire United States. ... This article is being considered for deletion in accordance with Wikipedias deletion policy. ...

Scher has been inducted into the Art Directors Club Hall of Fame (1998), received the Chrysler Design Award for Innovation in Design (2000), and a Gold Medal from the American Institute of Graphic Arts (2001). Some of her work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art and the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. Her album designs have earned her four Grammy Award nominations. The Art Directors Club is a professional association of advertising art directors and graphic designers. ... The Chrysler Design Awards celebrate the achievements of individuals in innovative works of architecture and design which significantly influenced modern American culture. ... The American Institute of Graphic Arts (often known simply under the acronym AIGA) is the American professional organization for design. ... View across garden, in new MoMA building by Yoshio Taniguchi. ... The Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum is the only museum in the United States dedicated to contemporary design and design history. ... Grammy Award The Grammy Awards (originally called the Gramophone Awards), presented by the Recording Academy (an association of Americans professionally involved in the recorded music industry) for outstanding achievements in the recording industry, is one of four major music awards shows held annually in the United States (the Billboard Music...

As an artist she is known for her large-scale paintings of maps, covered with dense hand-painted labelling and information. She is currently involved in the planning of a new multi-use "urban center" in the Mount Vernon Square neighborhood of Washington D.C., and teaches at the School of Visual Arts in New York. A map is a simplified depiction of a space which highlights relations between components (objects, regions) of that space. ... Mount Vernon Square is a city square in the Northwest quadrant of Washington, D.C., U.S.A. It is located where the following streets would otherwise intersect: Massachusetts Avenue, New York Avenue, K Street, and 8th Street. ... The School of Visual Arts Main Building, circa 1992. ...

Publications

• Scher, Paula. (2002) Make it Bigger. New York: Princeton Architectural Press ISBN 1-56898-332-8

References

• Currey, Mason (November 10, 2005) "Paula Scher's Atlas of the World." Metropolis Magazine.

External links

• Paula Scher: The Maps exhibition announcement (Nov. 3, 2005 - Jan. 21, 2006)
• Paula Scher bio at AIGA.org
• Profile of Scher at Apple.com/Pro
• Hillmancurtis feature Paula Scher: Type is Image (QuickTime)