You should slap a giant design cliche sticker over this entire concept. The only reason a designer would go out of their way to vandalize someone else’s work is to make themselves feel better about their own shit craft.

Not everyone has an $80,000 art school education, or can afford to spend $900 on CS3. Get off your elitist high horse and get back to kerning.

ditto. I think it’s easy to forget that most design “tragedies” occur because the craft is over managed and under valued. Vandalizing it only serves to reduce design’s importance to those who already undervalue it. The best way to comment on bad design is to produce good design.

Well, it makes me laugh…

Bravo!

Oh, please, all you complainers need to get off of your OWN high horses!

The kit is hysterically funny, and frankly, it wouldn’t kill us to aim a little higher on our design standards here in the US. Admittedly, the “kern” sticker probably won’t communicate anything useful to the designer of a really lousy poster or advertisement, but plenty of the other stickers are laugh-out-loud funny — and they’re not bad as reminders of how Microsoft has contributed to the demise of interesting visual information, either. I’ll certainly be printing a kit of my own.

Thanks for all the comments.

Design Police is a statement, and a bit of fun. Please remind yourselves of our disclaimer, we don’t condone vandalism or criminal damage. The DP launch has bought about many debates just like this one. 100,000+ designers around the world are now thinking about the subject of sloppy or careless design, whatever its form or budget. This is exactly what we wanted to achieve.

The Design Police.

To whomever it may concern — I interviewed the Design Police for Unzipped: http://www.fontshop.be/details.php?entry=263