Maptastic!: Paula Scher Explores the Geography of Design

Need another reason to love New York? Paula Scher credits the chaos of the city as a key inspiration for her map paintings. In “The Geography of Design,” a short film drected by Nicolas Heller and produced by Brian Collins for the Art Directors Club, Scher discusses how the city’s high-volume hubbub and mix of viewpoints, attitudes, and ethnicities influenced her work, particularly her painting. “I began to paint maps, and they really are layers of opinion and layers of populations,” she explains in