Coloring Book Outrage!
The networks were flipping out over this FEMA coloring book that I guess was supposed to teach kids about disasters. News agencies that aired the towers collapsing 10,000 times think this might be inappropriate for kids to see and color.
FEMA wanted to teach kids about disasters but this coloring book is one. I'll admit the drawing is a little weird but a few other outrages jumped out at me.
1) Who the hell drew this? I know these things have to be simple, but let's up the quality of our State issued coloring books. I blame cronyism. Some FEMA official gave the freelance contract to their buddy, the Michael Brown of coloring book illustrators.
2) Worst. Font. Ever. Actually, Papyrus is. Obama should work to outlaw both. (Another Design Outrage: Why is the second line of text so short instead of having all three lines more balanced?)
3) So 9/11 is going on and this woman is watching the action unfold on her wall-mounted Etch A Sketch AND holding a magazine that somehow contains a printed photo of the plane closer to the tower than it is in real life. It makes no sense...unless what we are witnessing is advanced cubist coloring book theory where multiple points in time are illustrated together.
FEMA wanted to teach kids about disasters but this coloring book is one. I'll admit the drawing is a little weird but a few other outrages jumped out at me.
1) Who the hell drew this? I know these things have to be simple, but let's up the quality of our State issued coloring books. I blame cronyism. Some FEMA official gave the freelance contract to their buddy, the Michael Brown of coloring book illustrators.
2) Worst. Font. Ever. Actually, Papyrus is. Obama should work to outlaw both. (Another Design Outrage: Why is the second line of text so short instead of having all three lines more balanced?)
3) So 9/11 is going on and this woman is watching the action unfold on her wall-mounted Etch A Sketch AND holding a magazine that somehow contains a printed photo of the plane closer to the tower than it is in real life. It makes no sense...unless what we are witnessing is advanced cubist coloring book theory where multiple points in time are illustrated together.
posted by Matt Bors at
8:21 PM
6 Comments:
that coloring book is a disaster
Christ, I can't even sign my name legibly and I know I can draw better than THAT. I love how in the three renditions the planes are all at different angles and the explosions are all different shapes. A lesson about subjective perceptions perhaps?
THANK YOU. Papyrus is horrible, never mind comic sans. It's like papyrus is the default font anytime you want something to be either ancient or oriental and it succeeds with neither. This is why graphic design is so necessary and this is why networks are so up in arms about this comic. Throw in a nice frutiger or even helvetica and suddenly it's awesome.
That's no ordinary Etch-a-Sketch. The standard model has two dials, and draws in two dimensions. This puppy is the 4 dial, 4 dimensional model. Noodling around with that can easily cause the kind of time/space distortions you see in the illustration. I thought DHS was keeping this device secret....
You blame cronyism for the fact that some small-fry Minnesota crisis response team asked a Red Cross volunteer to draw some illustrations?
I know that everyone (myself included) dislikes comic sans, so thank you for mentioning the abomination known as PAPYRUS.
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