Paula Scher was born 1948 in Washington D.C. She is an American graphic designer and artist. Scher studied at the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts, a Doctor of Fine Arts Honoris Causa by the Corcoran College of Art and Design.

In the 1970s she designed album covers for CBS Records and Atlantic Records. She worked at Time Inc. She formed the studio Koppel & Scher with Terry Koppel in 1984, where she embraced the pressures of working on her own. Since 1991, she has been a principal at the New York office of the Pentagram design consultancy.

Paula Scher has been in the Art Directors Club Hall of Fame 1998. She received the Chrysler Design Award for Innovation in Design 2000, and a Gold Medal from the American Institute of Graphic Arts in 2001. Her album designs have earned her four Grammy Award nominations.

Paula is known for her large-scale paintings of maps, covered with hand painted labelling and information. She teaches at the School of Visual Arts in New York.

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