One Letter Mistake

I found out that one letter could become a costly mistake. I'm constantly designing things at work… that's my job. It's why I was hired. Often, I'm working on several projects at a time. Sometimes, several projects are combined as one. This was the case!

Since the end of last year, I had a design for the upcoming "Summer Celebration Concert" in July. I did the design for the calendar that was printed before January. As the concert date was approaching, I started working on the web banners, email banners, poster, and tickets. Many projects of the same basic design.

Of course, as long as one is correct, the others should be fine too. Well, that's in theory. I also use templates from previous projects, like the last concert's tickets for example. And that's were the trouble showed up.

While fixing the date on the new tickets, I put an "N" where a "L" should have been. Now sure, right now that doesn't sound so bad… right? It does when you consider that it was the date. Once printed, we noticed the mistake.

The ticket said "JUN" when it should have said "JUL"……

UGH!!! We had to do a reprint! It was a good reminder that we need to proof it with more eyes than just mine.

I'm guessing that there could be a great object lesson from this. Something like: proof the things you do before going ahead.

I think I'll stick with trying not to make the mistake again!

~Matt