D was the letter of the week in my boy's pre-k school. His assignment was to find letters, cut them out and paste them in his D book. We poured through the monster stack of Parenting magazines and local fish wraps and found some great examples shown here.
It took me back to the Typography classes back at KSU – pre-computers when we would have to find the perfect typeface, cut them out with surgically sharp Xacto knives without snipping off the tips of our fingers, and paste them in place, creating a unique and beautiful design that solved the problem at hand.
This kind of thought process is often overlooked in today's fast-paced design world. Designers sometimes neglect the fact that the typefaces we choose can have a dramatic effect on the overall design. We simply type away and choose from our handful of fall back typefaces. Are you guilty of this? I know I am… sometimes ;-)
As for the assignment, the design hierarchy could use some work and the craftsmanship was less that desirable, but then again he's only 4. (The anomalous number 8 left in the lower corner is a nice touch though.) A designer in the making? Maybe. But we're keeping all options open.
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