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42 Designs That Are So Terrible, They Should Have Gotten Someone Fired
Article created by: Indrė Lukošiūtė
“It's through mistakes that you actually can grow. You have to get bad in order to get good."Paula Scher, one of the most influential graphic designers of our time, once uttered those words in reference to design. And while I’m sure she was being honest, I think some designers really took those words to heart and somewhere along the way abandoned the “getting good” part of their plans.
Below, we’ve gathered some of the most atrocious examples of design that have been shared on this subreddit that’s dedicated to roasting terrible design. From signs that induce headaches just from trying to read them to ovens that melt their own knobs, apparently, there are plenty of bad designers out there who need to grow a bit (or a lot) before they start producing excellent work.
Be sure to upvote all of the photos that make you want to fire a designer somewhere out there, and let us know in the comments what the worst examples of design you’ve ever seen were. Keep reading to also find an interview we were lucky enough to receive from graphic designer, writer and the man behind Identity Designed, David Airey. Then if you’re interested in checking out even more examples of horrific design, you can find some of our previous articles on the same topic here, here and here.
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#1
Why Would You Do This?
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This Playground Is Built In A Hole And Fills With Water When It Rains
#3
You've Seen Crappy Elevator Button Designs Before. Get Ready For The Crappiest Elevator Button Design You've Ever Seen
#7
Couldn’t Figure Out Why I Kept Grabbing The Wrong Size Out Of The Multipack Box… Then Realized All 3 Sizes Come In All 3 Colors!
#8
Are You 25 Feet Tall, Own A Multimillion Dollar Yacht And Want To Hand Wash Your Yacht Fully Clothed While Out To Sea? We Have An Inflatable Dock For You!
#15
Terrible Sign Color Choices
#20
A Beautiful Hardwood Bridge We Built At Work. Wheelchair Accessible. Comes With A Nice Steel Pole Almost Smack Bang In The Middle. This Is What Happens When Architects Refuse To Change Their Plan Even When Common Sense Says Let’s Move The Bridge
#22
This Awful Photoshop For A Slide I Saw An Ad For. Why Are They Wearing Normal Clothes In The Water? What The Heck Is Going On In The Background? So Many Questions!
#23
Feel Like This Airline Overestimates The Danger Of Rogue Origami Birds
#24
Who Wants A Nice Cold Formaldehyde Beverage? Someone Didn’t Think That Chemical Formula Through…
#25
Slip And You’ll Break Your Neck Going To The Basement To Do Laundry At My Apartment Building
#26
Missed Opportunity For Using The Jesus Statue As "T" Rather Than "I", Which Would Be More Readable And Intuitive
#27
From A Baseball Stadium That Took 1.2 Billion Nt Dollars To Build, This Sure Exceeds The Expectations
#35
We Have To Decode What The Shirt Says
#39
Happy Birthday Ha
#40
This Chicken Cookbook Has An Index Entry For Chicken
#41
At First Glance I Thought The Can Was Badly Rusted. Turns Out It's Part Of The Graphic
#42
Dont Mess With Chile 🇨🇱
Data1001 5 months ago
I mean, the Texas flag and the Chilean flag are very similar. The only difference is that the former has the blue field with the star taking up the entire left edge, while the latter flag has that field in the upper left corner with the red stripe going all the way across the bottom. And in this example, if they didn't put the red stripe all the way across, the word "Texas" wouldn't fit as nicely. So, long story short -- I'll allow it.
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