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Rosie Hilder

"I thought 'what nerve!'" Paula Scher reveals how The Beatles' album artwork inspired her

The Beatles Revolver and Sgt Pepper album artwork.

Recently, I interviewed influential graphic designer Paula Scher. Our conversation was wide-ranging and she was every bit as interesting as I'd hoped. She has a wry sense of humour, and an openness about her, meaning she didn't shy away from my questions, often pausing before adding an extra nugget of information or an anecdote.

We spoke about her logo creation process, her sketches and her new BBC Maestro course. But although I had planned for us to talk about the iconic album artwork she created in her career, there was one subject I didn't expect us to get onto, and that was the Beatles albums. They came up when I asked her what she was into as a teenager...

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