'I wish people would stop messing around with the skyline. I think it’s very greedy.' Graphic designer Paula Scher answers our 21Questions
Photo-Illustration: Curbed; Photo: Christopher Garcia Valle New York’s “21 Questions” column is back with an eye on creative New Yorkers. Paula Scher, the graphic designer, painter, and Pentagram Partner — who created brand identities for MoMA, the Public Theater, Shake Shack, and NYC Parks Department, among dozens of other organizations — currently has a retrospective on view at the Museo Nacional de Artes Decorativas, in Madrid.
In pure honesty, nothing because my couch is in the middle of the room. But about 10 feet behind my couch is one of my paintings of the United States and on the side of my couch is one of my husband, Seymour Chwast’s, paintings of war. We only hang our own work in the living room. Why give anyone else valuable space?Designing the inside of children’s books at Random House. I lasted about a year and a half.Black and white. No color.
Driving back from either LaGuardia or Kennedy, there’s a part of the Long Island Expressway that’s high on a hill right when you’re starting to slide down to the Midtown tunnel where you have this perfect view of the New York City skyline. It’s just amazing.The so-called One World Trade Freedom Tower. It’s screwing up the skyline. It’s way out of scale. It looks dumb. It dwarfs everything in a bad way and it makes everything look imbalanced.
What I really liked to do — before COVID, now it’s harder — is to sit at the counters and have dinner. We would go at least once a week and have meatballs and eggplant and a glass of red wine.Well, I can tell you what I don’t want. How’s that? Don’t put down “Designer of the Boston cover.” I always hated it and it just doesn’t go away. It just doesn’t go away.
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