This is a series on Netflix covering a different designer each episode from all different areas of Design and each episode follows their work, their background history and what drives and motivates them.

Episode 6; The one I was most interested in watching was the one featuring Paula Scher an American Graphic Designer who specialises in hand lettering and type. As this is an area I am particularly interested in I decided it was worth a watch as I had never really heard of Paula Scher and her work before.

The episode looks at the influence New York City has had on the designer’s work, her lifelong love of typography, and the map paintings she hand draws and paints alongside her client projects.

I was pleasantly surrpised to see that she is very old school in her designing. My personal style and my strong area has always been hand drawn and more traditional in approach and she was very much the same. Up until watching the documentary I had always worried that to be an amazing designer you need to be a whizz digitally. Schers work started as illustrations and hand drawn sketches which she then imports in and alters digitally.

It was interesting to see how she undergoes projects and how she creatively thinks; I could see many things that I shared in common with her about how I see and view things creatively.