Folder Designs for Chloe

23 posted on September 23, 2008

Chloe’s teacher sent home a letter asking parents to decorate the cover of their child’s writing folder. We were supposed to decorate it with pictures of things our child liked and topic ideas to help them come up with things to write about.

This is what I came up with for Chloe. It’s totally bright and obnoxious girl colors but she loves it (click the image to view it full-size).

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I suppose I could break into the elementary school folder design market with a portfolio like this. I’m sure there are plenty of 6-9 year olds who would totally hire me.

Does anyone know the bottlecap-to-dollar conversion rate?

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1 Michiel said:

Hey Brad!

These designs rock! Is there a best-parents-writing-folder-design-price to win?

I’m sure, if there was one, you’d be the lucky one!
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2 Brad Ruggles said:

@Michiel – No, my reward was the look on Chloe’s face when she first saw the folder.
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3 Adam said:

Do you like making other parents feel completely inadequate with there lack of artistic ability?!?! lol Although I have to say I make a MEAN stick figure.

That is so cool though. I be she loved it and will be showing it off to everyone.

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4 Dale Best said:

Brad,
You’re gonna make Chloe’s classmates jealous. Keep up the great work!

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5 Abbey said:

Those rock! I would totally go for the blue one…=)
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6 brandiandboys said:

are you trying to make other parents look bad… i’d totally flip out with a folder like that!

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7 Patty Lundy said:

Cool design! I’m sure you’ll be the talk amongst the kids AND parents, whom you showed up royally!!! LOL
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8 Jason Ruggles said:

Cool! I made the back cover!
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9 Joseph said:

I am with Adam.

What happened to the good ole days when kids wrote on their folders and put stickers on them? And used crayons???
Now Dad is coming up with Prize winning graphics? hahahah

This really is pretty awesome…so not letting my 5 year old see it or she will expect me to attempt such a feat.

You definitely have more talent in one finger than I do in entirety.

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10 Reba said:

ahh what a great daddy!
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11 Reba said:

Is that a font for her name or did you sketch it? I have been looking for something like that..

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12 Nick said:

I hope you get an A! Love the use of color and gradient.. are those stars brushes or some other vector art?

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13 Brad Ruggles said:

@Reba – The font is a free font called “Action Jackson” that you can download from DaFont – http://www.dafont.com/action-jackson.font

@Nick – The background with the stars is a vector image purchased from http://www.istockphoto.com
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14 Bradford Singleton said:

I’m pretty sure the conversion rate is in the bottlecap holder’s favor at this point.
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15 tam said:

are you for rent? or could you just adopt me and be my cool daddy?

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16 tam said:

ooo dang. that sounds creepy.

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17 Jon Price said:

Brad,
I noticed the “Hiking in the Mountains” pic. I’ve got an 8 yr old daughter and a 6 year old son, and would love to get them into hiking but haven’t done any of that since kids. We’re west of Atlanta so the beginning of the Appalachian trail isn’t too far away. How did you break your kids in? Something to chat about at Catalyst – not long now!
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18 Laura Carney said:

What a great Daddy! I’m sure all the other kids are saying “Yeah, Mom, you just do it on the computer. It’s super easy; Chloe’s Dad did it!”

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19 April said:

Wow. Yeah, the other kids are probably all jealous of her. I’ve never seen a folder like that….

And I got TWO pictures of me on there!!
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20 April said:

Make that THREE!
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21 Gunnar Mattiasson said:

Hi!
It seems like the image got lost in the “new-layout-implementation”…

Would love to see it – please bring it back!

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