‘Ugly Design’ Instagram Is Full Of Pics To Make You Laugh And Cringe And Here’s 50 Of The Best (New Pics)
One famous saying assures us that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. However, some could argue that things can be objectively beautiful.
For example, colorful sunsets and ancient marble sculptures are often considered pleasing to the eye. Our inner desire for perfection also prefers symmetrical faces that stand out as examples of beauty.
The fact that there might be objectively beautiful things also lets you argue that the opposite can be true—some things can be objectively ugly. The list below is proof of that.
Uglydesign is an Instagram page curated by Jonas Nyffenegger and Sébastien Mathys. When interviewed by Bored Panda a few years back, they said that for them, this account is “an incredible source of inspiration and joy.”
Over the years, the account’s popularity only grew and now they are at 755,000 followers and counting. Scroll down to see the best of the worst of their feed.
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? What? Why are you sorry? And who are you speaking to?
Load More Replies...Oh no i think these are brilliant and hilarious! Good design bawk bawk
I love this one 😂! This guy has humor and can laugh at himself 😄💕
While as a word, “ugly” has a lot of negative connotations, ugliness itself does not necessarily equate to something that’s bad. A great example of that is ugly cute animals.
From the big-eyed innocent tarsiers to sleepy-looking sloths, ugly cute animals are adored by many. The reason for that is that a lot of them have baby-like features that appeal to our instincts to protect the vulnerable.
And there is no way that baby is falling over. 😂
Load More Replies...HOW IS THIS UGLY! i dont even like babies but i would make a few so i can buy this thing for them! Well im joking but you get the point.
Definitely. I know a 7 year old who'd need them forcibly removed!
Load More Replies...I have these but they're alligators. Or um crocodiles. I can never remember which. I'll see if I can find a link but I got them off some random ad.
Ok if you go to your country's Amazon or equivalent and just search for shark socks, you should be able to find various styles, including ones like those pictured. But keep in mind, what looks great in the pic might not seem as perfect in reality. My 'gator socks are still cute but look a little deflated compared to the perfect pics that inspired me to buy them.
Load More Replies...But what about those really ugly animals? Like that fish that just looks like a melting face of a chubby man. Does it really evoke our primal care instincts?
When talking to National Geographic, Hiroshi Nittono, director of the Cognitive Psychophysiology Laboratory at Osaka University, says that it's true, sometimes that's not the case. Rather, they make us experience “whimsical cuteness” that’s a little out of the ordinary. This oddness is funny, which is what makes them so appealing.
This is fantastic. Giving birth is stressful and traumatic so having this funny little burrito swaddle is a great way to bring a laugh and ease the parents who are exhausted and possibly not in the best of moods
Cvs receipts are a classic and while I know it's a waste of paper... back when I went to CVS (I go to a better pharmacy now) I found that if you actually used those endless coupons along with their rotating yellow-tag sales items, you could actually get some steals on various items. Without using them it's like convenience-store prices, but for a while I was getting the occasional items for very cheap.
Ugliness can also be fascinating. For example, one of the most popular paintings in London’s National Gallery is a piece by the 16th-century Flemish master Quentin Matsys. The image is a portrait of a woman with a disfigured face and is commonly called “The Ugly Dutchess.”
I dont play guitar but my dad does and I would 100% get this as a birthday present for him
I love these. They're funny both for the scifi fans and, I suspect, some more adult oriented anime fans...
I've been to an exhibition of that art and still have a postcard somewhere. My brain has not forgiven or forgotten what was seen.
Load More Replies...It brings our devices together just as cthulu brings us all together in eternal darkness
Load More Replies...Why isnt this listed "cool and unique designs" ??? Don't you know your audience by now BP??
For years, many theorized that this is a piece of satirical imagery, one that is supposed to represent the difference between outside and inside beauty. Her dress is gorgeous and youthful but her face is not. However, in the late '80s, a new theory was proposed, suggesting that she might have had Paget’s disease, which causes malformed bones.
Same. It’s cute and livens up your bathroom a bit!
Load More Replies...Hah hah, this reminds me of the episode where Spongebob gets the "suds." (Yes, I am dating myself.)
Im sorry but even if i love dogs Chihuahuas are a bit creepy! I am worried that their eyes will pop out😳.
When you hug your chihuahua tight... and tighter and tighter and tighter
"My Grandad's a vegetable" "OMG, I'm so sorry, is he in hospital?" "No, not like that!"
Looks like a fun jacket and hat to wear, while tending to her radichio.
This is everything that's fabulous about the UK. Some people are completely bonkers & that's fine.
Today, this painting is the most famous work of Matsys and a hit with audiences, at least judging by the Gallery sales of the postcards featuring the portrait, which compare to Claude Monet’s famous Water-Lily Pond.
I thought it was Ok, too, until you pointed it out (no pun intended, either).
Load More Replies...Well, three years ago this would have been the ultimative demonstration of wealth...
what- 2020 was three years ago? i don't like that thought...
Load More Replies...Isn't there a Bridal shower game, where they make a dress out of rolls of TP?
I haven't seen colored TP here in the US in decades
Load More Replies...Someone won THAT bridal shower. [As a guy, I don't go to many bridal showers. However, one couple had co-ed parties. One party activity -- which I took to be very normal -- was to build a wedding dress out of toilet paper. It was kinda funny how the two mens' teams totally destroyed the competition simply because we focussed on engineering a dress capable of holding together despite being made out of mere toilet paper BEFORE worrying about appearance. But I dare say, whoever designed this beat us handily.)
If I had done this design for my sister's toilet paper dress during her bridal shower, I would have won the game.
This might be the first product in this list that actually fit the "bad design" definition. The rest is only bad if you're a boring person with no humor and no fun.
I remember the other day I saw one of the teachers at a school wearing pants that said MAGGIE and had magic school bus things on it.
The concept of ugliness also evolves over time. Something that is perceived as ugly now could be considered beautiful in the future. The most obvious example of that is fashion and beauty trends. One day, high-rise jeans are reserved for moms only, and the next they’re the season’s hottest item. Same can be said for fanny packs, bucket hats, and flared jeans.
Same here. Plus it looks like it's easier to pull the cable out of the phone.
Load More Replies...Great! Let's hope they also do one as a parallel printer cable (kids: ask your parents about these)
Oh! I didn’t look at the photos on the right immediately because I was in awe of the phone using a serial connector and wondered where people do that! Wow; I was totally faked out, imagining really, REALLY poor countries where this might be in use. Now I see it’s a standard USB connector and I’m laughing, imagining all the explaining this poor user hasta do. 😆
This reminds me of a movie named 3idiots. If any one is curious search all is well 3idiots on youtube
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Load More Replies...Are they the backs of chairs? I don't understand what I'm looking at
that's exactly right! The beige part and the thong is the actual chair ;)
Load More Replies...This has to be Russia. Or maybe a satellite country like Belarus.
Likely to be taken by a jealous thief who wants cool sushi bag covers
Load More Replies...The two on the outside are the parents, and the one in the middle is their offspring.
Load More Replies...Something as majestic and awe-inspiring as mountains also used to be considered ugly. According to Stephen Bayley, the author of Ugly: The Aesthetics of Everything, people used to despise them. “Mountains were once thought disgusting: they were dangerous, frightening and home to nasty demons and bandits.” Certainly not a place you would sing praises to.
I don't know if I should laugh or cry. It's pretty unique, that's for sure.
Mine is looking at funny things others posted and leaving comments... that's what you mean, right?
Load More Replies...WTF WHY is this ugly?? Picture made by some smallminded construction workers, apparently. Meeting someone like this sunflower man would make my day!
Exactly, it would make me smile. And therefore i think its a win
Load More Replies...I kind of love it-- it makes me smile. We can all use a little sunshine.
This is not ugly at all: https://www.dutchnews.nl/2021/04/the-flower-bike-man-bringing-smiles-to-a-city-in-crisis/
My mom loves swimming and works at a swimming pool! She’ll love this!
The best architectural example of an ugly thing that ended up being admired by everyone is the Eiffel Tower. Many contemporary minds at the time united under the common hate for the tower. Maupassant called it a “giant ungainly skeleton” while Bloy said it’s a “truly tragic street lamp.”
I wonder why BP censored bathplug? ( ;) )
Load More Replies...the trick is to pull the beads out s-l-o-w-l-y and use plenty of lube
oh my god my teacher walked behind me right when I scrolled to this help ☠
"It's a butt plugged into a plug but the butt plug actually has a chain going into the butt so it' too is being plugged - don't you see - THE PLUGGERS ARE BEING PLUGGED and the plugs certainly aren't knowing that the holes might be growing and the pluggers aren't showing any sign that they are slowing so the PLUGGING keeps on going! " wooooooooooooooooooooooo - W***y Wonka-
Nothing ugly about this... Maybe an attempt to get children to eat their greens?
Seems more like an attempt to get the greens to eat the children 😅
Load More Replies...I love this... i hope the entire playground is giant vegetables. I would have loved to play there and pretend I was a fairy when I was small
This castle is part of the Vegetable Kingdom? (Or Plant Kingdom as it's now known?)
Ooh, I bet it doesn't get AS hot as some of the other playground equipment
it's a funny pic. no cringe here (i guess that happens due to the air flow from below?)
You just accidentally coined a new term for "fart."
Load More Replies...it was only once she farted that Sarah realised that her trouser were way too tight
I was thinking, they shouldn't see this otherwise their wazoos will be too large to get into their Porches.
Load More Replies...But this “hideous column with railings,” as Huysmans put it, is now admired by many. It is Paris’s biggest tourist attraction and is often the first thing that pops into someone’s head when they think of Paris.
Upvote for Neverending Story reference!
Load More Replies...It's a joke product and the video is a prank.
Load More Replies...I have a feeling this is just a normal scooter, but she turned around to make it look like it did
So, maybe ugliness isn’t that objective. Just like the ideals of beauty, the “ideals” of ugliness also change all the time and depend on many variables. Which means that the things on this list might not be ugly for everyone. Except for that flip-flop-shaped fry holder. Everyone agrees that’s awful, right?
Butt he's got bad jeans. Gotta feel sorry for him.
Load More Replies...It would've been a lovely dress, if it weren't for the zipper sticking out like a sore thumb.
It's not even. It's not sewn in correctly. Wrong on all levels.
Load More Replies...That's what I was thinking. It looks like she is in a shop hoping to get it fixed.
Load More Replies...This is the first design on this list that I’ve actually disliked
At first glance, I thought the woman had a zipper coming out of her back
Not sure how I feel about this but the nail tech has amazing skill, truly an artist.
Is it bad that my first thought was "Someone out there has a foot fetish for this"?
Why would anyone in their right mind ever wear something like these?!
Try walking in these and the resulting bruises can only add to the overall effect!
All I can think of is the condensation building up inside the instruments spreading to this outer environment
Literally anything can be excused as normal if you just say “must have been during coronavirus”
I think it would have been easier to by some Glo White and bleach the deodorant stains out,
Load More Replies...Excuse me, but your pits are looking awfully s****y today.
More like maggot art. Do they wiggle too? I mean, you might as well get the full effect.
Load More Replies...I thought it was egg sacs at first. I guess rice is marginally better.
Load More Replies...I don't think this is ugly, but he looks sad. (edit: spelling)
Reminds me of the talking pig from The Restaurant at the End of the Universe episodes from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy TV show.
Halloween is right around the corner. I wonder if it lights up or glows in the dark? This would be good to put on the front porch.
No one would knock for candy that's for sure!
Load More Replies...I love these Snoods! My dog, Lady, wears one that turns her into a teddy bear. They help keep her ears out of her food when she eats. PXL_202306...fa1eee.jpg
Maybe he's jealous he never got a outfit dedicated to him?
Load More Replies...Yeah, certainly took me a while to figure out what I'm looking at
Load More Replies...Out of all of these posts.... this is the only one that got to me for some reason. If I ever feel the need to traumatically regurgitate... I'll think of this 💀😐
Took me a while to realise what's going on here...as long as there unused.....
For a good 30 seconds I thought they were lemon slices 🍋 And then I thought they were smiley faces 🫥
Load More Replies...🤦🏼♀️my thinking they were lemons - which I didn’t understand either.
I feel betrayed by the person who ruined those shoes 😭
Load More Replies...NOOOOOOOOOOOO OMFG IMAGINE WEARING THIS TO GRAD OR A WEDDING 🤣
I'm gonna hafta ask you to step away from the Bedazzler, ma'am.
Well what else was she supposed to do with her time in quarantine? 😂
Load More Replies...This is a COVID test not a pregnancy test. Easy mistake to make!
Load More Replies...I remember that movie, So Fine, with Ryan O'Neal. That was pretty funny.
I mean...in the right time and place with the right person wearing them...sorta ok?
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Sun-glasses...
There are some things that really don't need a religious opinion.
There's a hole, you can nail the contraption to the tip of your nose.
What will it take for you to dial the right number
Load More Replies...I followed the link, it's a video. It's part of his pants, he unzips it and his dog jumps in for the ride.
I have these, they are for securing someone while rock climbing and very useful.
I'm curious, though - would that affect the eyesight of someone wearing glasses? I'm asking, because of the way how it would project the image(s) through the lenses.
Load More Replies...I've never seen these from this angle. It reminds me of a cartoon crab,
Enthusiasts*. Sorry, I don't usually correct people but it was killing me.
Load More Replies...The toenails are bugging me but you can finally pull of the socks with saddles look
The person has such small toes if they can’t fit in those small socks
This feels like something you would find in a serial killer's home.
I am reminded of that scene towards the end of Pretty Woman, when Edward takes off his shoes and socks and walks barefoot on the grass.
My Italian side of the family would love this. I may have to one up this idea and also make a salami medallion and string-cheese rings.
For what occasion would these work? Your new pizza restaurant opens up? Doesn't seem like a large market.
When you believe you seen it all. This is just nasty. Disgusting.
I need these. For movies, parties, clubs, in-laws. Do they have a version with clip ons?
Load More Replies...Give it to a couple trying for kids and there will be lots of plaque
Load More Replies...Yes, it's awful isn't it...pairing high heels with camo cargo pants. Yech.
Load More Replies...The designer rubbing their hands: "You fell into my little trap, heeheehee…"
I know Waylon Jennings played a tele, but this might be his back-up guitar
That's reeking staled cigarette to me. Are those supposedly crushed beer cans?🤢
Keyboard warrior: This is actually pretty darn clever for Halloween or a dress up event.
"Just using a wheelchair temporarily? Well we can make it permanent!"
first of all you cant get up second it just leads to a wall which is bad if you have a hand controlled weelchair
My absolute worst nightmare. They are even on the pillow case 😭😨
Someday you'll be a magnificent graphic designer they said. You have much talent they said. Hold my beer I said
I just want to let you all know that you are not very nice pandas. What if Headless Cockroach sees this? She will be crushed! Figuratively, not literally, hopefully. Edit: spelling.
This reminds me of this dream I had when I was 5 😭 Basically i was in bed when the tent (I slept in one of those tent beds in winter) started turning into bugs and they crawled all over me
Untill you gain or lose some weight, then it's as reliable as a wooden timing belt.
Load More Replies...You've heard of putting your foot in your mouth, now we give you this
That would make much more sense if the laptop didn't have a built-in keyboard.
And make believe it came from you... This song reminds me of an episode from Benson, when Benson and Clayton were trapped in the basement, after an earthquake. Clayton wanted Benson to sing, because he's so scared.
Load More Replies...they should have shared the website address just so we know what website so we can make sure to avoid it
what bothers me the most is that the head seems to belong to a little girl
I mean, if the car don’t work anymore, it’s better to use it to make other things? No?
Someone's 3D printed a Thomas the tank engine face to replace the cap on the carton, so when you pour the chocolate milk (schokomilch), it comes out of Thomas's eyes
Load More Replies...It took me a few minutes before my brain realized what you meant by that comment. Phew, I feel better now, I was way down another path of thought.
Load More Replies...I do not understand. It’s a way to carry a thing that looks like a bike but isn’t actually a bike. On your back.
Load More Replies...Efficient, perhaps. But without the "leverage" gears provide, I doubt the top speed is that much faster than sprinting,
Load More Replies...But then the handlebars would get wedged in your rear end.
Load More Replies...Hahaha what the hell i can’t stop laughing at this one! WHO want to use that sh!t💀😭
as a 10 yro child I dont see it, and I dont think I want to.
I'm surprised the BoredPanda censorship mafia didn't censor this...
She doesn't look amused, but also looks like this isn't the first time something like this has happened...
no ventilation whatsoever. i wouldn't want to be in the room when they take those off
That would be really pretty design if it was just a regular polish on regular nails.
How in the world do they do anything with those fingernails? I'm not even going to try to fathom what going to the bathroom must be like. I am sure they are probably for a competitions, but still...
Are we really using an immersion blender on the grass? Unrelated, but years ago I saw a woman vacuuming her lawn.
What? I guess, if the lady can vacuum her lawn, why not use an immersion blender on the grass?🤦♀️
Load More Replies...I think it did work… the “mowed” section is on the right and looks good. A standard mower would be a pain in the tush to lug out for the decorative strip. I use scissors, personally for weird shapes/strips. Now I’m curious. 😊
Load More Replies...i always wonder at these posts: do i have to upvote the pics i like (maybe because i like a design and don't cringe about it) OR do i have to upvote the pictures that are truly ugly and make me cringe? it feels wrong to upvote some of the uglier pics...
Yes. (this is the standard internet answer to such questions)
Load More Replies...At least a third of these aren't ugly at all, they are awesome!
All the truly ugly designs are moving towards the bottom of the list, and the interesting/cool/cute designs are floating to the top. The people have spoken, it's time the BP writer change the headline.
Bad headline writer! A lot of these are funny and some are downright adorable.
i always wonder at these posts: do i have to upvote the pics i like (maybe because i like a design and don't cringe about it) OR do i have to upvote the pictures that are truly ugly and make me cringe? it feels wrong to upvote some of the uglier pics...
Yes. (this is the standard internet answer to such questions)
Load More Replies...At least a third of these aren't ugly at all, they are awesome!
All the truly ugly designs are moving towards the bottom of the list, and the interesting/cool/cute designs are floating to the top. The people have spoken, it's time the BP writer change the headline.
Bad headline writer! A lot of these are funny and some are downright adorable.
