Students are asked to look at letters, words and numbers as art.

At the end of the discussion, they are challenged to create a work of art that has text as its subject.

There is a link on the last page for a video of an artist creating a new font based on an object that he chose for a reason.  For an educator's guide to go with the video, go to http://www.mnoriginal.org/art/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Chank_Diesel.pdf