Resource: Transparent PNG & SVG Files for Cocoon, Gran Pulse, and Etro Alphabet + Numbers
I finally went ahead and vectorized all three in Illustrator. They're available to DL in the link on the image and in the replies. Some notes:
The scan I traced over for the Cocoon alphabet shows the same letter for lowercase 'a' is used for 'f.' I don't know whether this is a mistake in the guide or if there really is no differentiation between the two. However, I referenced the Creature Comforts logo to design an alternate lowercase 'f' and included that in the files.
I don't know how to make fonts. I included the SVG files for anyone who'd like to try though! This is more for people who'd like to make large logos or use them as a base for personal projects.
For fun, can you read which shop logo is which? Answers are in alt. Heads up: long post under read more.
I'll let you in on a secret. I have a doctorate in education, but the field’s basically just a 100 years old. We don’t really know what we’re doing. Our scholarly understanding of how learning happens is like astronomy 2000 years ago.
Most classroom practice is astrology.
Before the late 19th century, no human society had ever attempted to formally educate the entire populace. It was either aristocracy, meritocracy, or a blend. And always male.
We’re still smack-dab in the middle of the largest experiment on children ever done.
Most teachers perpetuate the “banking” model (Freire) used on them by their teachers, who likewise inherited it from theirs, etc.
Thus the elite “Lyceum” style of instruction continues even though it’s ineffectual with most kids.
What’s worse, the key strategies we’ve discovered, driven by cognitive science & child psychology, are quite regularly dismissed by pencil-pushing, test-driven administrators. Much like Trump ignores science, the majority of principals & superintendents I’ve known flout research.
Some definitions:
Banking model --> kids are like piggy banks: empty till you fill them with knowledge that you're the expert in.
Lyceum --> originally Aristotle's school, where the sons of land-owning citizens learned through lectures and research.
Things we (scholars) DO know:
-Homework doesn't really help, especially younger kids.
-Students don't learn a thing from testing. Most teachers don't either (it's supposed to help them tweak instruction, but that rarely happens).
-Spending too much time on weak subjects HURTS.
Do you want kids to learn? Here's something we've discovered: kids learn things that matter to them, either because the knowledge and skills are "cool," or because .... they give the kids tools to liberate themselves and their communities.
Maintaining the status quo? Nope.
Kids are acutely aware of injustice and by nature rebellious against the systems of authority that keep autonomy away from them.
If you're perpetuating those systems, teachers, you've already freaking lost.
They won't be learning much from you. Except what not to become. Sure, you can wear them down. That's what happened to most of you, isn't it? You saw the hideous flaw in the world and wanted to heal it. But year after numbing year, they made you learn their dogma by rote.
And now many of you are breaking the souls of children, too.
For what?
It's all smoke and mirrors. All the carefully crafted objectives, units and exams.
WE. DON'T. KNOW. HOW. PEOPLE. LEARN.
We barely understand the physical mechanisms behind MEMORY. But we DO know kids aren't empty piggy banks. They are BRIMMING with thought.
The last and most disgusting reality? The thing I hear in classroom after freaking classroom?
Education is all about capitalism.
"You need to learn these skills to get a good job." To be a good laborer. To help the wealthy generate more wealth, while you get scraps.
THAT is why modern education is a failure.
Its basic premise is monstrous.
"Why should I learn to read, Dr. Bowles?"
Because reading is magical. It makes life worth living. And being able to read, you can decode the strategies of your oppressors & stop them w/ their own words.
What do you mean Cass is a clone? I don’t think that’s been established before.
I referenced it once in her last profile, but yeah, it's not something that comes up too much.
Time for some deep lore!
Cass and her "brother" Isaac are secret government clones of the world's most powerful psychic (recently deceased).
Might as well take this moment to talk about him since I don't expect him to come up very often otherwise.
Fun facts!
Isaac is one of my oldest OCs, Cassandra was originally designed to be his evil opposite/twin but she ended up becoming the more fun and interesting character and took the spotlight.
Isaac's power of "Tactile Telekinesis" is directly lifted fromthe 90s incarnation of Superboy, Kon-El.
Ataraxia is a made-up mental health disorder and a reference to Josh Hartnett's character in the movie Lucky Number Slevin.
I once watched a girl in the produce aisle pick up a bushel of bananas that were precariously perched on the edge and move them farther back and under her breath she said “there you go sweeties - that will be more comfortable” before shuffling off and… I think about her often.
I think you do expressions really well in your art. Whenever I see the characters, I can tell what they're feeling, and when you add speech, I can all but hear it.
It's done really well, even when it's the sorta reaction images things.
i love exploring reactions, its something i notice in lot of drawing, usualy the face and expresion and even body language just say
"im standing here in display"
i really prefer to have something to tell. making a scene, something you can totaly see happening.
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