Paula Scher is an American graphic designer, painter and art educator in design. She also served as the first female principal at Pentagram, which she joined in 1991.
Paula Scher
Pentagram is a design firm. It was founded in 1972, by Alan Fletcher, Theo Crosby, Colin Forbes, Kenneth Grange, and Mervyn Kurlansky at Needham Road, Notting Hill, London. The company has offices in London, New York City, San Francisco, Berlin and Austin, Texas. In addition to its influential work, the firm is known for its unusual structure, in which a hierarchically flat group of partners own and manage the firm, often working collaboratively, and share in profits and decisionmaking.
The former Pentagram building in Manhattan, at 204 Fifth Avenue, was designed by C.P.H. Gilbert. On top of the building at the time this image was taken (2010) is a statue by Antony Gormley, part of his Event Horizon installation on buildings around Madison Square