BEAUTIFUL FACES FROM CHAMPION
BEAUTIFUL FACES II
Paula Scher [Designer]
Paula Scher [Designer]: BEAUTIFUL FACES FROM CHAMPION / BEAUTIFUL FACES II. Stamford, CT: Champion International Corporation, 1987 / 1988. Original editions. Square quartos. [2] Portfolios with 61 loose leaves. Elaborate paper promotion featuring 38 Art Deco typefaces and 19 printed examples of the typefaces complementing each other. Expected elaborate graphic design throughout. Portfolio sun-faded and edgeworn, but a very good or better copy of this Champion paper promotion. Rare.
[2] 11 x 11.5 promotional portfolios for Champion’s Color Collection papers. If you weren’t there in the sixties, er — eighties then you wouldn’t understand. All 38 typefaces feature a full alphabet and numerals.
- Specifications Sheet [x2]
- The Faces Cover Sheet [x2]
- Agency Gothic
- Peignot Condensed
- Wood Block Condensed
- Morgan Gothic
- Herold Condensed
- Neuland Inline
- Schwere Block
- Little Louis
- Eden
- Mainzer Fraktur
- Fatima
- Greco Deco
- Geometric
- Epitaph Open
- Dolmen Black
- Ebor Script
- Harpers
- Cavanaugh Beacon Shaded
- Berliner Grotesk
- Hessbold
- Berolina Medium
- Isadora
- Long Tall Good Wood
- Auriol Italic
- Comstock
- Boomerang
- Publicity Gothic
- Empire
- Zierscrift
- Schriften Lightbinner Gothic
- Brush Sans Outline Bold
- Triple Condensed Gothic
- Grocers Condensed
- Glorietta
- Trio
- Carin Condensed
- Phyllis
- The Combinations Cover Sheet
- Schwere Block & Berliner Grotesk
- Cavanaugh Beacon Shaded & Morgan Gothic
- Fatima & Geometric
- Herold Condensed & Mainzer Fraktur
- Greco Deco & Agency Gothic
- Auriol Italic & Berolina Medium
- Isadora & Harpers
- Wood Block Condensed & Neuland Inline
- Empire & Eden
- Wood Block Condensed & Neuland Inline
- Epitaph Open & Little Louis
- Glorietta & Boomerang
- Publicity Gothic & Triple Condensed Gothic
- Shriften Light & Zierschrift
- Binner Gothic & Grocers Condensed
- Carin Condensed & Brush Sans Outline Bold
- Peignot Condensed & Trio
- Long Tall Good Wood & Comstock
- Dolmen Black & Phyllis
From Pentagram: "For four decades Paula Scher has been at the forefront of graphic design. Described as the “master conjurer of the instantly familiar,” Scher straddles the line between pop culture and fine art in her work. Iconic, smart, and accessible, her images have entered into the American vernacular.
“Scher has been a partner in the New York office of Pentagram since 1991. She began her career as an art director in the 1970s and early 80s, when her eclectic approach to typography became highly influential. In the mid-1990s her landmark identity for The Public Theater fused high and low into a wholly new symbology for cultural institutions, and her recent architectural collaborations have re-imagined the urban landscape as a dynamic environment of dimensional graphic design. Her graphic identities for Citibank and Tiffany & Co. have become case studies for the contemporary regeneration of American brands.
“Scher has developed identity and branding systems, promotional materials, environmental graphics, packaging and publication designs for a broad range of clients that includes, among others, Bloomberg, Microsoft, Bausch + Lomb, Coca-Cola, Shake Shack, Perry Ellis, the Museum of Modern Art, the Sundance Institute, the High Line, Jazz at Lincoln Center, the Metropolitan Opera, the New York City Ballet, the New York Philharmonic, the New Jersey Performing Arts Center, the New 42nd Street, the New York Botanical Garden, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Robin Hood foundation, and the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation. In 1996 Scher’s widely imitated identity for The Public Theater won the coveted Beacon Award for integrated corporate design strategy. She has served on the board of directors of The Public Theater, and is a frequent design contributor to The New York Times, GQ and other publications. In 2006 she was named to the Public Design Commission of the City of New York.
“During the course of her career Scher has been the recipient of hundreds of industry honors and awards. In 1998 she was named to the Art Directors Club Hall of Fame, and in 2000 she received the Chrysler Award for Innovation in Design. She has served on the national board of the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) and was president of its New York Chapter from 1998 to 2000. In 2001 she was awarded the profession’s highest honor, the AIGA Medal, in recognition of her distinguished achievements and contributions to the field, and in 2006 she was awarded the Type Directors Club Medal, the first woman to receive the prize. In 2012 she was honored with the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s Design Collab Award, and in 2013 she received the National Design Award for Communication Design, presented by the Cooper-Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Scher has been a member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI) since 1993 and served as its president from 2009 to 2012.
“Her work has been exhibited all over the world and is represented in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York, the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Denver Art Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, and the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris.
“Scher holds a BFA from the Tyler School of Art and honorary doctorates from the Corcoran College of Art and Design, the Maryland Institute College of Art, and Moore College of Art and Design. Her teaching career includes over two decades at the School of Visual Arts, along with positions at the Cooper Union, Yale University and the Tyler School of Art. She is the author of Make It Bigger (2002) and MAPS (2011), both published by Princeton Architectural Press, and the subject of Paula Scher: Works (2017), edited by Tony Brook and Adrian Shaughnessy and published by Unit Editions. Scher is featured in “Abstract: The Art of Design,” the Netflix documentary series about leading figures in design and architecture.