Novelty Glasses Makers Run into Design Difficulties with '2011'

Rarely, to our minds, does one piece of merchandise present such a serious challenge to typographers, product designers, and novelty merchants at all one time than this. We’re of course talking about eyeglasses shaped in the form of “2011” for New Year’s Eve. After a while decade of being spoiled by two zeroes right where the eyes needed to be, novelty suppliers suddenly found themselves in a tough spot they likely hadn’t been in since the 1971 (though clumsy, at least the 80s had that 8 and the 90s had the 9).