Okay that last post I reblog Ed actually reminded me today I was in my graphics class and one student used the l’il S doodle (you the one, the elementary school S doodle, the king himself, the S doodle) as a cute l’il *accent* on one of his assignments and my professor didn’t recognize it so he was so impressed. He was like “dude you could use this for a personal logo if you want, it’s SUCH a good design” and student in question didn’t quite know how to explain why that wouldn’t work because it’s a VERY COMMON symbol that has built up all sorts of mental association in people’s minds long before he threw it onto his college assignment. An the teacher was just not. Getting it. He was like “nah fam, look at the simplicity. The clarity. So dynamic.” Homeboy just did not know what to say. And one student was like “no listen we’ve ALL drawn the S before. It was a grade school doodle.” And it just didn’t compute for the professor 😂 he kept trying to go off about all the rules of graphic design that would make it such a good logo for this student and we were all flabbergasted trying to explain that no matter how well made the S is doesn’t change the fact that it would NEVER WORK for the student or anyones personal logo because it literally isn’t his design AND it already has such a strong presence in people’s cognitions.
And anyway so I thought my professor would be great at decorating a children’s hospital
