Map of the Unites States, painting by Paula Scher

Success doesn’t lead you anywhere

OnCreativity sits down with legendary designer Paula Scher

I think you can’t be successful without having failures. And I don’t think that success leads you anywhere. Because when you’re successful, you tend to repeat those things you already know how to do, and they become terrible crutches. Nothing like a good, sloppy failure to wake you up and make you reinvent.