93 Graphic Design Fails So Atrocious That We Wonder How They Were Approved
Like every design appreciator with an obsession for order and balance, we have a soft spot for a beautifully crafted work. It’s always a pleasure to see the creative process unfold and get inspired by how designers approach their work. But as much as one may love well-executed ideas, we admit there’s a special kind of joy that comes from stumbling upon a failed design so terrible that it makes you snort with laughter.
Graphic design is not a simple matter of putting together some pretty pictures and catchy text. Designers know too well that it’s a complex art form that requires skill, creativity, and a keen eye for detail. Unfortunately, not everyone who attempts to create a project is up to the task — that’s where graphic design fails come in!
The internet is littered with them, and we all know what they look like: a poorly-designed logo, an ad with a double — and often very ambiguous — meaning, or just a wrong font choice. But some design fails are so atrocious that they deserve their own category, and we found so many examples of bad design that made us wonder how they were even approved!
Now it’s your turn to join in on the fun. We’ve curated a list of the funniest design fails — genuine examples of what happens when an idea goes wrong in the most spectacular ways imaginable! So, dear reader, if you’re ready for some hilarious, eye-burning, and just plain bad graphic design, you’re in for a wild ride. And in case you find a particularly heinous design, don’t forget to upvote it and let us know why you think it’s the worst — or best, you know, depending on the perspective.
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Love Handles
You're right - they should make a clean breast of it!!
Load More Replies...A Bag Of Apples With A Character On It That Got Poisoned By An Apple
Well to be fair getting poisoned was probably the best thing that happened to that girl, so I get it
His room was next door in the nursing home. He used to crawl past the nurse's station at night. 🤔
Pretty Sure He's Using It Wrong
Attention
Reminds me what happens everytime I try to use the bathroom in my dreams
Now the disabled elderly child would be the victim of an aging disease like progeria, but most girls with it are sterile.
Load More Replies...My Local Magazine's Editor Might Need To Double Check Some Stuff
We Cut Kids
You'd cry too if you literally thought you were going to get cut.
How Did They Not See This??
Freud really would have a field day. "Now tell me...do you see someone booping testicles below an erect penis, or do you see someone arching their back because someone just fingered their booty?"
A Nightclub opened here named "D***s Last Resort", and the city made them change the sign. They were forced to make a new sign "D***s Resort" neon and everything wasted.
Oh, it's supposed to be a reclining chair. It don't really look like that at first glance, it looks like a penis at first glance.
This Sign
We Need To Decorate The Toilet For The Disabled, Say No More
This offends me. My mom worked with disabled children and my aunt cannot walk or talk or even control her hands. If I saw this in a restaurant or something I would complain to the manager. This is cruel and even if they didn’t mean too they should still take it down. Don’t joke with these kinda thing around me.
and then there's that one time I was in a place where you would buy like wheelchairs and mobility scooters and stuff and the loudspeaker was playing "I'm Still Standing".....
What’s that? You want a disabled bathroom? Let me decorate it with things people that are disabled can’t do!
What’s that you say? Your not disabled? Well do one of these and you can use this toilet!
Motivational Poster At Work
Just Watched A Guy Go Into The Wrong Bathroom At Toronto Pearson Airport. He Was Looking At The Top Sign
"Uhm....sir? Can anyone explain why the condom machine keeps spitting out tampons?"
An airport is really not a good place for ambiguous bathroom directions...not that anywhere is...
Well, he could have used one of the two emergency sinks in the front...😏👌
Depending on how tall he was. Maybe that's a child's sink on the right...🤔
Load More Replies...Happy Father's Day!
This is..... um... unfortunate ( also, damn those knives are pricey!)
I think that the newspaper is set up like this on purpose, and I think it's pretty funny... (pls don't downvote)
Load More Replies...Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
These knives were used by Hannibal Lectern! 25% off for killer's day!
This Is Just Terrifying
DON'T SCREAM, GRASS WILL COME OUT OF YOUR MOUMMMPHHH!!!
Load More Replies...The grass calls to you. It's green abyss seems to whisper into your ear. You feel it begin to overtake your soul. It creeps up your legs, slowly covering you. It seeps into your ears, your nose, your mouth. The whispers are now screams. Screams of the damned. Screams of the souls the grass has already overtaken. You outstretch your arms, almost as if you are clinging to the last remnants of control you have over your body, even though you know you're already lost. Your eyes dilate, turning into pools of green. The grass has taken you.
This Map At A Coffee Shop
Amazingly with all that is wrong and missing there, they managed to include Tasmania and New Zealand, two of the things that always drop off the map
The real question is which country is this coffee shop located in. Any guesses? Can we rule out the countries incorrectly located?
This "Zero Taste" Soda Sirup
Ah yes I want to put some soda syrup that has in my soda for no reason at all.
That's Not How Mirrors Work
No idea why but I thought the figure in the background between the mirror and the crook he is holding was Death !!
the reflection has the name backwards rather than the letters. its not a true mirror
Load More Replies...Doesn't give much credibility to the whole book when they try to lie to you right on the cover.
Imagine Cleaning A Fan So Well That You Uncover 2 New Blades!
They cleaned it so well that it changed the shape of the blades and even added new ones.
If Only There Was A Letter In That Word That Resembled A Football
This Guy Must Be Feeling Pretty Great On This Ad
Does anyone really not read or think Oh My in a George Takei voice? I know I always do. All nature related is Morgan Freeman voice, "mother fůcker" always in Samuel L Jackson voice and "make it so" in Patrick Stewart voice.
Load More Replies...the backwards urinal!! edit: inside out
Load More Replies...As an art director, I worked with people who were obsessed with placement and to this day I can't thank them enough. Tunnel vision of final design can make one forget its placement. It takes a village & all that.
I read that as "universal truncheon". Is there something wrong with me?
At First Glance, I Didn’t Recognize This Restaurant Mural As The Sun…
Orange Is The New Milk
This Sign In Front Of My House
Tiny Head Syndrome (THS) is real and needs to be taken more seriously. /s
They Just Don't Go Together
the puzzle pieces don't even have a hole on the sides to fit the other piece into! that's why the title says that. (by the way donuts\coffee do go together it's just the puzzle pieces don't.)
Load More Replies...When Your Gym Tries Hard To Motivate You But Fails To Make Any Sense
Most of these I can figure out what they are trying to say...you know it's really bad when you can't figure it out at all!
All I've got is "You will thank us 3 months from now. Hit yourself at 3rd floor"
Load More Replies...It doesn't make sense any way you read it, and sounds vaguely threatening: From now 3 months you will hit yourself at 3rd floor. Thank us. Thank us at 3rd floor, hit yourself you will 3 months from now. Even if you try grouping it together out of order; 3 months from now you will hit yourself thank us at 3rd floor. Oof.
All I've got is "You will thank us 3 months from now. Hit yourself at 3rd floor"
Load More Replies...Don't be go makin' fun of my cousin Yoda'esque. She can't help it...🤨
Load More Replies...at the third floor i will hit myself. I will also do so again in 3 months time
We're Glad You're Here, But Go Over There
Well, I guess I won't be eating at Golden Corral anytime soon if this is how the employees treat their customers.
1 Person Is Ok, 2 People Is Ok But In Red
It’s good to be a single man but it’s bloody good to be a man with a male partner
Actually MOST of us tend to consider it a sign of inexperience if they make you bloody....
Load More Replies...It's ok to do it on your own in a lift, but do not do it with another man. Simples.
The chap in the right picture is clearly playing a saxophone so 1 person no jazz,2 people jazz OK!!
Sock Model Wearing No Socks
Would You Like Your Chips With Or Without Chips?
We all talking about the chips with no chips, but what about just plain cheese. Can I get some cheese with chips? Oh wait, can’t eat cheese very well, what with no head
I do wonder what would legitimately happen if someone tried to order this
waiter: hello, can i take your order? me: can i have chips without chips, please? waiter: ok i will give you your food soon! 5 minutes later, the waiter comes with a plate with nothing on it. me: hmph i wanted chips without chips! waiter: but this is chips without chips!
Fox News' Graphic Design Department May Have A Mole
I love letting these dimwits know pagans are the reason for the season that Christians, as Christians are wont to do, immediately stole then claimed it as their sole property. I almost made a pun and said soul property, but we all know lacking a soul is a prerequisite just to work security in the Fox parking garage.
Think I'll Pass On This Graphic Design Course
Step pu? no thank you.. I prefer keeping my shoes clean..
Load More Replies...i was wondering what was wrong with this picture, then I tried to read it like a normal person might (someone with out adhd) and I was confused.
Load More Replies..."You're Gonna Pay For That Free Coffee, Aren't You?"
A Very Easy To Read Graph About Texting While Driving? Found In My High School Yearbook
The overlap must be people who drove right by their destination because they were texting.
Dont Save A Life. Be Afraid To Give Blood
Don't save a life. Be afraid to give blood. Wow, google translate fails again at translating English to English.
This is what cases of arrested development do when they constantly watch horror movies and believe that vampires and zombies exist and are real...😏👌
Good Thing My Kid Knows How To Count Already
Bottom right might just be "Bananaris Scalus" , the butterfly equivalent on the more common banana for scale. 🤔
Sir, Sir, SIR THERE ARE EIGHT CATERPILLARS WISHING THEY COULD FLY
So I Just Hide The Scratch With The Bottle?
The scratch is obviously repaired so there's nothing to see anyways 🙃 /j
Are you sure it isn't a lubricant for intimate moments, I mean Wood Butter fills cracks
This Clock Store In Benghazi, Libya
I must be the one person who actually read that as "clock" at first..
Shape Of The Bowl Kind Of Makes It Look Like “Puke”
Just thinking what they could adulterate it with makes me sick.
Load More Replies...Wow Look At Those Knives
Know The Facts I Have Beautiful Teeth Too
You know that if the people who put up this billboard saw a baby born with those teeth and that scary expression, they’d declare it the Devil’s spawn and abandon it in a cornfield somewhere.
Finding a child in a cornfield never bodes well...
Load More Replies...I Think You Missed Some Letters
STRESSED PEOPLE STRESSED I want dessert because I AM STRESSED!!!!!!!! agh * dies*
QUICK SHOVE SOME ICE CREAM IN HER MOUTH *Starts CPR*
Load More Replies...This makes me stressed which makes me want to buy desserts so maybe it's working? 🤔
Stressed is desserts spelled backwards. Or else you will get a design fail like this or even worse get sand in your mouth.
Destressed is desserts spelled backwards. Stress backwards is sserts.
This Emoji With 2 Mouths Looks Like A Depressed Middle Aged Man
I Honestly thought it was Jason Alexander until my brain said.... "Are you hearing yourself"??
Because Nothing Says Success Like An Anxious, Vacant Stare
Well, tbh kumon has one of the greatest methods to teach, it's super efficient and helpful, so the funny face is forgiven
Truth! I worked at Kumon and had an 8 year old client that had been "homeschooled." He didn't know how to read when he came to me, but learned in about 3 months.
Load More Replies...Bruh i went here for a while. Actually confused me with that logo
I’ve seen this place before. Looks like it’s telling me that all the kids that go there are bored as f**k
Soup Soup Break Soup
Soup soup break Soup ..................... relax... Soup taste What exactly is the context here? Haahahhah 🤣
I read that with a earworm tune. Soup soup....break soup...relax....soup taste....or it's a chiropractor for soup.
Who Wants To Go Eat At The Pube Grill?
OMG that reminds me in a magazine I got it said "PubeLick Market" it was supposed to say public market...
Do Hit The Road, Born In More Let’s Drive Britian
Besides the beautiful placement they even managed to misspell britain, impressive
"Come visit britian, home of grate tee and pastry"
Load More Replies...'Do more; hit the road, let's drive; born in Britain.'
Load More Replies...Run for your lives! The Britians have landed in their extraterrestrial MG's! 😳😱 Blimey!
Ah Yes, China, My Favorite Food
It means 'salad' in lots of european countries, such as denmark and germany
Load More Replies...If it's in Germany/Austria/Switzerland, it's spelled correctly.
Load More Replies..."eat the CHINA!" "plis no aaaa" FORCE FEEDS ME CHINA AND NOW IM THE GOVERNER? IM NOT GOING TO REMEMBER THIS IN THE MORENING SO HEY NEERS
Terrible Sign Color Choices
It kinda looks like it was on purpose, but the I AM ruins everything
me too and i'm not even being pedantic here :)
Load More Replies...Not The Most Welcoming Door Mat
Judgement door mat, in case your Mother in Law isn't around to do the job.
Don't worry, they didn't know how to put a (gardening) hoe on a carpet.
This Trashcan At Frankfurt Main Station
To give people a false sense that they are helping the environment
Load More Replies...So glass and waste will end up together, and paper and packaging will too. But I guess it doesn't matter since they will probably all end up in landfill. It's the thought that counts
That has got to be the WORST designed trash can ever. Look, the labels don't even maych!
Client: Can You Design This Soup To Look Like Feminine Hygiene Packaging?
He’s Taking Two Steps
I Think It’s Trying To Say Dumbo
"Your aura's slight tinge and scent of bile informs me that you may be prone to--ah--foolishness. A mere slight tint of foolishness."
Wouldn’t trust anyone to give me advice that spells it as advise (second line, last word) 😂
If you're so psychic, tell me all about my past. GoogleOnline doesn't count. 😂
Don’t Have Hep C? Get Some!
I had Hep C. Don't know how I got it but I took the cure. Probably got abad case of laughing nookie... 🤨
My Baby Brother’s Play Mat Isn’t Correct, Or Is It?
No, Thank You, I Don't Wanna Put Jam On My Sponge
This is what happens when you watch The Great British Bake-Off.
Trying To Watch My Sodium. Unsalted Box Is Blue But Wrapper Is Red, Salted's Box Is Red But Wrapper Is Blue
At least it's written correctly on the wrapper, so just have to read carefully.
I usually tell my dates in restaurants " taste it and find out if it is salty or not". 🙄😉
NeV York
If only there was a popular state with a v in it 🤔 sorry Nevada but I guess Las Vegas just isn't enough to get you on a mug
They tried to make it not look like a bad design but it just looks like neVv york
Business Center Logo Looks Like A Guy Taking A Dump
Lol this is a movie theater in rio de janeiro, I went there throughout my entire life and never noticed anything weird (tbh it looks pretty normal to me still, but you do you)
Letters Are Not Aligned Well. But The Water Is Fart Free!
Cheat Yonur GF Not Yonur Workouts
I think the yellow ones is the word supposed to be read but either way, it's still confusing. 🤣
Can Someone Tell Me What This Jacket Is Actually Made Of?
This piece of clothing is constructed of 3 separate layers: (1) 70% polyester and 30% pu; (2) 56% polyester and 44% viscose; and (3) 100% polyester. Frankly, I'm more concerned that one of the layers is 30% pu.
why didn't they put Polyurethane, they didn't shorten the rest👀
Load More Replies...3 different layers maybe? Or 3x the material of a normal jacket :D
This Christmas Card I Recieved
Assuming 5m Is Meters, Girl Must Be About 16ft Tall
And my mother will compare me to that girl asking me why I’m not as tall as her 😒
then my dad will critisize me for not being that tall 😒
Load More Replies...Newtons, the SI unit of force (including weight). (If you raise something weighing 20 newtons by 5 metres, you've done 100 joules of work.)
Load More Replies...Why doesn't she use a ladder? You can get a hernia extending yourself that far...🤔
Live Your Life Without Empowerment Judgement To The Fullest
Someone's Marketing Team Should Have Thought This Through
guys please i promise i’m not terrible i don’t get it! what’s the problem ??
Load More Replies...Stop making jokes about 9/11... my dad died in there.... he was a good pilot (JOKE)
Please don't make jokes about 9/11 . It's not a joking matter
Load More Replies...Im Not An Expert But I Think Those Countries Don't Belong There (Found At A Supermarket In Spain)
Last time I looked, Latin America was the descending colon of North America. 😏
Come On, You Must Know The Order Of The First Five Letters Of The Alphabet!
Just Noticed My Watercolor Set Is Named Fine Fart
theres a building in my hometown that looks like is says fine farts on it lmao
Worst Out Of Order Sign To Date?
The levels one takes to be creative in non creative environments is amazing.
Took me a long time to decipher that as "Not in use". Agree about the shocking font, at least they didn't use Wingdings
If the typography wasn't c**p, this design would work, whatever its trying to say (NEJ UN VSF? NeJ LoN VSF? Ned LeN VSF?)
Because normal people aren't verbally lazy and don't use abstract initials; they spell things out...☝️😏
Load More Replies...Wow I thought your upper half would be exposed.. "Hey there, just fertilizing.."
Come In, We’re Closed
I'd Better Get That Ticket Before It's Too Late
Maybe the Parking Authority is ripping folks off and decided to give them a choice
You need an a** to pass (pass is what it actually says because the p is covered).
I Don't Think You Are Supposed To Eat It Like That
That's what happens when you try to eat Michigan!
Load More Replies...Is this a wallpaper for psychopaths? Cuz I wanna know. This is really funny.
This Menu That Seems To Be Upside Down At First Look
Grilled Cajun Caesar Salad? First, Cajun has nothing to do with salad. Second, you don't grill salad. Third, you don't put Caesar dressing on something that you put on the grill. When are you Yankees going to learn a thing or two about cuisine? We wouldn't touch this s**t in southern Louisiana, that's for sure! 🤭🤢🤮🤧
P.S: you don't put meat on a salad, chicken or chili...🤢🤮🤢🤮😳🍑💨💩👹
Load More Replies...My Toddler Thinks We're Holding Out On Snacks
Let's hope he never gets "all the feels" he deserves for eating one....
But it don't beat dripping candle wax all over your lover's body...☝️🤨
R Is For ?
Maybe it's for "row"-boat? No people abovedeck, they're all below, getting plowed -- look out!!
Ah Yes "Don't Aid"
If Only Louisiana Looked Like A Letter Of The Alphabet
Uhhh... looks like an L. Why didn't they make it an L and bring the O back?
I'm Impressed That This Thai Menu Has Text Cropping Both Over And Under The Image
I'm prepared to bet that it's neither garlic or shrimp if their food is as well prepared as the menu.
Load More Replies...Images are always the background and put the most contrasting color on the text.
Are you sure you're not graphically dyslexic? It all looks fine to me....
I'm impressed with the list of ingredients. Our Thai "restaurant" lists the type of protein and makes you guess what else is in it based on the blurred image next to the name. There is no telling how hot it is either so ordering food there is a little bit like Russian roulette. I use "restaurant" because it's a garage not an actual sit down and dine place.
I Spent Half My Meal Trying To Decipher This
Um . . . "BIL Bert Nad By Cm" "YB Cm BIL Beri And" Anyone else have an idea?
Load More Replies...So far the most plausible answers is on Reddit by Glass_Level2136 "Maybe it's By Cilmeri Band? Idk why I even thought cilmeri was a word but I went ahead and googled it Cilmeri were one of the bands that were present at the beginning of the folk surge in Wales at the end of the 70’s. Formed by college friends Tudur Huws Jones, Huw Roberts and Ywain Myfyr, the three were influenced by the folk music traditions of Ireland and questioned why the musical traditions of Wales were being ignored "
that sounds right! the letters are about the right size. reading the Reddit comments makes me think the signs were regifted or found, with the letters separated, and the people whose house this is didn't know what they were supposed to say
Load More Replies...Could be it's not supposed to say anything. Like, it's art not signage.
Read jointly, they say "Cum Bili-biii CIMBY, And Beri NAD". That might mean "Women's Room" and "Men's Room" in colloquial Australian? Or combined restrooms? Anything's possible Down Under....
The Local Taco Shop Has An Interesting Interpretation Of Readability. Let's Play "Find Where The Tacos Are Listed"!
Souvenir Notepad, Designer Failed Geography Class
Give NZ the vite then and we'll work with Scotland and Wales to rejoin the EU.
Load More Replies...Putting The Helmet On His Knee Makes It Look Like There Are 2 People In The Silhouette
Fast Lane Which Way?
left or right?! DANGNABIT, now I missed something important because of this!
Tast lane? Rast lane? ast lane? F has a bit more to it... Because the psychotic paperclip wrapping are d the word doesn't help with the text
There Is An Extra "R", Normal Name Is Chuck Burger
I read it "BUCK CHUCKER", then as "CHUCK BUGGER" -- is there something wrong with me??
Welcome Back Highcrest Middle Schoolers!
And someone was so proud of that too. I mean it made it all the way here.
No Need To Measure, There’s Plenty Of Space For All The Letters
Combining my two favorite things, stuff that'll kill me and c**k? I'm THERE.
Load More Replies...That's a "conjoint C" -- the store is inTobago; it's the lower, foreign-made sign that is faulty....,
The Tim Hoe Use - Supposed To Read 'The Time House'
If Only There Was An Easier Solution
Not going to lie, I wish they had this in my dorm when I went away to college. Idiots with free access sprayed our floor and we had to evacuate the building at 1am for about 3-4 hours for a hazmat crew to clean it up on a freaking weekday. Luckily the next building over had the cafeteria so we were able to sit in there and not outside in the below freezing weather
Found This T-Shirt At A Grocery Store
“I love chocolate, and Chocolate, and my son Chocolate” would actually be a proper sentence
I love and my son. Wait, is it supposed to say "I love chocolate and my son?"
Seen At The Local Post Office
Okay this makes sense and doesn't belong here. In the USA, you're not supposed to throw old American flags away in the trash, so some places have these bins to "retire" the flags
Yes, it's clearly marked what it's for but people don't read so the "Not for Trash" sign was necessary.
Load More Replies...The military goes through great pains to brainwash civilians as well. It's only a flag, and not the people who pull the strings that you wouldn't trust at a family reunion. 😒😖
At least Germany has quite the stringent flag code as well. It's not enforced a lot though, as the only time where citizens really fly the flag is the football world cup anyways. Technically, throwing them away is a felony though. But with the courts overworked anyway, well, nobody really cares. Just don't burn it.
Load More Replies...Banner At A Ski Hut (Supposed To Say Gamsgarten)
This Restaurant’s Menu
And I'd trust this places food WAY before the other one that was right to left lol
Load More Replies...Inspired by a first generation website. Be grateful the sign doesn't blink
And to think that Switzerland had its great moments in the history of graphic design... not this time...
The prices are in Hong Kong dollars. Where are you getting Switzerland?
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