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What I would do is offer a reprint to anyone willing to send the original back. So, give people a month to request it or something, send those people a tube to send the original back in, then know exactly how many to reprint. Then, resell the originals with the typos that are returned as a novelty. I know I'd be happy to purchase one of these typo-ed ones, which I'd hang in my apartment and love to tell the story about.

Having "corrected" ones for sale is a great idea... makes the "typo" ones much more valuable.

This is kind of like baseball cards with errors being more valuable than the corrected ones that came out later.

I posted this, not to rag on the guy for his mistake, but because many of us have been in this very same place, stuck in between multiple painful decisions.

I'm also a backer and interested to see how creative the HN community can be in recommending solutions.

I'd just call is art and ask everyone to live with it.

agreed. It's not like it's fraudulent; the proofs were there on the original kickstarter, and no one noticed it! Often in numismatics, errors are more valuable than perfectly cut coins.

I recommend posting this thread to the kickstarter comments. It should serve to buoy the artists spirit, if nothing else.

It also looks like tolmasky has landed on an excellent compromise solution.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6968241

If he opts to do the above, ill gladly shell out for the limited edition run.

KEEP IT! I'd consider it an important part of the art itself. The piece stands out more than the biggest flaw on it.

Ha, that's actually kind of neat. I'd consider it a good flaw like a beauty mark (mole). Consider it a feature.

Slap a transparent sticker on the bottom right corner that says, "Did you know Brooklyn is misspelled? Hundreds of others didn't. Read the back story about this at brookyln.com".

I like the sticker idea. It could be paired with another sticker in the form of an asterisk, to be placed directly after the misspelled "Brookyln".

Weird that this URL brings me to a Kickstarter page that pretends I'm logged in as someone else. The link submitter?

In the URL was some base64-encoded data:

{:post_idiX I"uid:ETiI"expiry;TI"2014-01-26 19:38:26;T

Yep, that's my profile. Strange, I didn't even think I'd need to check it. I should've known better. Perhaps the mods can update the link?

Is it a link from your email? It is still weird that a UID is encoded directly in the URL, though.

Yeah I clicked the link from the email update. Wonder if that exposes some kind of security flaw?

By the way, Nathan, the link contains your log information: http://grab.by/t7ws

i only noticed the misspelling in the article title on HN after reading the post :)

Cameron’s a nice guy and a great designer. It’s a shame this passed so many sets of eyes unnoticed!

It's a shame it's too late to back -- it was funded almost two months ago. Even with the typo, it's beautiful. Hopefully he does the Golden Gate Bridge someday.

Don't you mean Godlen Gate Bridge?

If Cameron had created an architectural blueprint that was going to be used to build a bridge then a mistake like this would be a problem. I think it's charming and frankly something that's expect with art. How many paintings have you seen that are absolutely perfect? Probably none.

I hope @tolmaskey's idea goes, so I can hang mine, with the mistake and be proud of it.

Ouch. This same thing happened to another friend of mine. I referred him to a client in need of a freelance graphic designer. They had been contracted to do a design for something in Camden, NJ. He gave them the design, they printed thousands onto hoodies or t-shirts or something, and it was misspelled as "CANDEN."

I think the solution is the non-solution. Yes, it sucks, but backing something on Kickstarter is a risk.

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I thought this was going to be a Kickstarter for a community pottery kiln in Brooklyn, which felt very Brooklyn to me. This works too.

Has no one has pointed out the Typoglycemia effect yet? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typoglycemia

This is one of those things thats hilarious yet not at all funny. The typo versions are going to be worth WAY more than the corrected versions. Call it a limited edition.

Don't point it out and they won't notice, if they know how to spell it in the first place.

I read this post title as "Brooklyn" and wondered what it was all about.

587 backers. 587.

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