Realizing that it isn't enough to have the De Stijl movement, the founders of Emigre Magazine, as well as dashing actor Wim Crouwel who made a (relatively) recent appearance in Gary Hustwit's film 'Helvetica.'
Now the Dutch are training their youth in the importance and language of typography
The Dutch Graphic Design Museum are offering these lessons as part of their exhibition called Letterlab which you can check out here.
if you're too lazy to click this is directly from that link:
Letterlab gets children to realise that the letters we use for reading have a history of development, that they are designed, and that the way in which that takes place determines how the letter functions.
In other words they're learning what twenty-something college students are paying to make a career of at a much earlier age.
Learning a language early can make it come easier. What happens when a child learns the language of design?
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