“Creepy Design”: 40 Design Fails That Look Creepy And Make People Feel Uncomfortable (New Pics)
Design is everywhere around us: in the streets, on the bus, at work, and in our homes. And there are plenty of good examples. You probably have an app you love to use, a restaurant you love to visit for its ambiance, appreciate a great pair of shoes, and just know when you are having a great end-user, consumer, or human experience.
However, the opposite is also true. We detect whenever something has been made really poorly and in some cases, it can get really annoying. Or even uncomfortable. And the subreddit r/CreepyDesign is here to prove it. Created in 2013, this online community now has 568K members who are sharing unnecessarily freaky projects, and we can blame them for wanting to unsee these abominations.
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Erm, Yeah. Nope
is it wrong of me to want this just to freak people out?
Tim Burton’s “Nightmare Before Coitus”
Boy they won't even let the mannequin models eat anything.
Load More Replies...What In The Holy Hell Am I Looking At??
So, make a voodoo doll out of balloons, then stick a pin in it - and the real person explodes? WOW!
Load More Replies...Don't 'Follow Someone Home'
Oh don't worry ur not alone I'm here to wait for you :)
Load More Replies...How strange, you seem to know the exact time....?? Hummmm..... lol
Load More Replies...A complex sign like that seems like a hazard if drivers are trying to figure out the sign instead of watching their driving.
“God sent me a sign that I should follow you home. What are we having for dinner?”
Just don't mention that you've got a nice bottle of Chianti with you....
Load More Replies...Gas Station In Nebraska. The Station's Color Scheme Was Red. They Tried To Get Artsy
My local hospital has "artwork" like this on all its floors. Like someone was murdered and dragged through the hospital. Very weird choice.
LMAO I think we’ve seen your hospital on a design fail post here a few times
Load More Replies...or green or yellow or blue or purple or.....
Load More Replies...That’s One Desperate Chicken
This promo is from RowdyBBQ near Pittsburgh PA. It surfaces during lent each year. Brilliant & funny.
This is a billboard promo from RowdyBBQ near Pittsburgh. It surfaces during Lent. Quite genius and makes me laugh when I ride past
This Tumblr Ad For Illinois Is Terrifying
And wash away the rain? Black hole sun Won't you come...
Load More Replies...This is just a normal guy from Illinois. I live in St Louis. It's like five minutes away.
Reminds me of French actot Fernandel, who did have that kind of smile, quite naturally.
Came For Some Chips, Left Missing A Kidney
Either that or smoking it. With those eyes, it’s really hard to tell.
Load More Replies...He stole those shoes off the man he ate before he started consuming himeslf
And it stands out. Amazing advertisement
Load More Replies...He Looks Like He Just Saw A Ghost
Which would be completely in character for a horse.
Load More Replies...You know that moment when you realise that your going to poop, reeeeeally soon and your racing against time to get to the toilet? Yeah, this face!
Probably met the dog with human teeth or the balloon voodoodoll...
He met the French fry zoombie, and the playground caterpillar.
Load More Replies...This Man Wants To Clean Your Clothes
I do not want him to cleaan my clothes, learn my name, where I live, where my loved ones live.. I may take precationary murder measures.
I was thinking he looks more like the fourth Stooge. The one they don't talk about.
Load More Replies...Nightmare Corvette
when you speed a lot and you absolutely want the cops to know they are still pursuing the correct vehicle.
No. It’s to make the police not chase you as once they see this, their eyes vapourise.
Load More Replies...This Terrifying Christmas Tree
This is Woody. He is at a mall in Dartmouth Nova Scotia. I have seen him in person and he's very creepy. His eyes and mouth move and yes he talks!
WHHHHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY WHY?
It looks like a DHMIS character, who teaches them about holidays and the episode is actually about how Christian holidays are always marketed and exclude all other religions. Do any pandas besides me know about this show
Yess I do. Red guy is my absolute favourite (it's a YouTube series that then got a season 2 on Channel 4 in UK incase anyone wanted to know - I'd definitely recommend it)
Load More Replies...That's what it reminds me of...that or Timmy the Tooth
Load More Replies...I just don’t want my Christmas tree to have a face. Know what I mean?
This Horrific Playground Caterpillar
It's from new super Mario Bros 2 on the DS... You jump on them and they turn red and chase you!
Dog With Human Teeth
Ah yes. That is definitely what dog teeth look like
I feel like this one is an intentional joke to get the customer to look at it. Kind of a spoof on the super white hollywood star smile. They even drew in a 'sparkle' on an upper right tooth
This was an actual commercial for Dentastix dog chews that was kind of poking fun at toothpaste ads and the gleaming white toothy smiles on the people in them.
This was an ad campaign in the uk...the main point was you can't get false teeth for your dog so you need to look after them! They had a whole parade of dogs with "Hollywood " smiles...it was really creepy!
These Subway "Benches" In My Hometown
And the ad in dead... Ik, Ik, bad joke
Load More Replies...You're. Then people will understand your comment the first time.
Load More Replies...Fingers
I can hear a mobster saying, "And if you don't pay up by next Tuesday we're going to do the same thing to your other hand."
It actually almost looks like some kind of reverse Italian mobster gesturing
Load More Replies...“Salad Fingers” comes to mind. It’s a series of animation shorts, and for anyone running low on nightmare fuel, check it out. It isn’t horrifically out there, but just so damn creepy
Not An Exit
Considering the age of child that appears to be targeted for - that's pretty horrifying.
I'm a adult and that thing will fuel my nightmares for the next 4 days!
Load More Replies...This is actually at my local zoo. Columbus, zoo and aquarium.
That's what I thought, but ours IS a slide, and it doesn't have a face...?
Load More Replies...The Ice Cream Boy Wants Your Soul
The ice cream cone looks sort of surprised that dude is humping it from behind and now I can't unsee that.
Oh yeah… the ice cream looks like a lady, but they said ice cream boy…
Load More Replies...It’s the placement of the legs with the cone hanging down between them that’s creepy.
thats the thing i see in my closet at 3am but turns out to be a hoodie
Panda Decoration At Our Mall
“Do you wanna see a magic trick? I’m gonna make this bamboo disappear…”
How dare they deface the beautiful image of a panda! It does not even look bored!
"Me, getting bored ? With all those kids I can scare around ? Never".
how dare you random mall, i bet you've never even seen the non-jacked up side of bored panda.
Me And The Boys Trying To Find Nemo Be Like
This GRT Design
It's fugly, but seeing it isn't an electric car (exhausts), they're probably proud at burning gas.. (and thinking they're flexing at Gretha like Andrew Tate thought he could)
I don’t think it is as funny as they think it is either. Anything reminiscent of that absolutely dirt bag is a no from me!
Load More Replies...the people hating on Greta Thunberg here on BP both sadden and scare me. she is trying to change the world. she is autustic, young, female, and an amazing inspiration. and y'all are s******g on her for ...what?
Love it. Anything to give a metaphorical middle finger to that whiny twāt is a thumbs up from me!
ew. calling a child a twät is ... not a good look.
Load More Replies...You Probably Don't Want To See This At The Beach
The one-eyed minion only comes in the men's style.
Load More Replies...I would buy that just to have many laughs when I wore it to the beach.
Load More Replies...The one eyed minion is for women who have mastectomies. And yeah been there done that don't hate on me
When I Was A Kid My Uncle Had One Of These And It Gave Me Nightmares
Anyone else hear that horrifying screech sound he makes while pressing the alarm and banging his cymbals?
Load More Replies...stephen king wrote a short story about these. “the monkey” is what it’s called
This Short story by King has stayed with me, every time the cymbals banged someone the protagonist loved, would die.
Load More Replies...I can remember a very disturbing Stephen King's short story describing that exact ancient toy from Hell.
Yes please, do you accept " Thoughts and Prayers " as payment....??
Load More Replies...These were made by a Japanese company, Daishin, although innocent toymakers Schucco often take the rap, as they made similar monkeys, only actually cute or at least not terrifying!
Is this the one Stephen King wrote about? *means: please stay away from me, my hometown, entire Europe just to be safe*
these don't bother me and I think it is because I am old enough the first time I saw one it was a creative toy and before the days of computers and all toys had batteries you didn't see as many toys that could "DO" things so it was sort of novel. It was only later that I started seeing it as a creepy thing in movies and video games. One of the ones in Fallout 4 managed to jumpscare me though. lol
Years ago my best friend, who is a self-described scaredy cat, decided that she wanted a cymbal monkey and proceeded to mention this at every opportunity. I was, and in fact still am, deeply perplexed. Like. Had she never SEEN a cymbal monkey? (I wound up getting her a small, cute, non-evil one for her 21st birthday and hiding it under her bed as part of a scavenger hunt. To lurk. As was its nature. Okay, maybe it was only MOSTLY non-evil.)
This Woody Painting At A Cafe In Korea
Yeah, someone definitely poisoned the water hole... with meth.
Load More Replies...LOL Memories. It has maybe changed now with modern tech but when I traveled a lot in the 80s the Asian signs had a certain "flavor" to them. Saw it in Korea, Philippines, trying to recall if Japan. Usually it was movie posters. Or at least those are the ones I noticed because like Woody here they were typically a 'poster' of some movie that was made in the west. But 'poster' was more like someone took a sheet of plywood and hand painted a 'movie poster'. So it was characters you knew but they were 'wrong'. Most typically they sort of looked like whatever country people. Like Rambo or Mad Max or whoever would look kind of Korean. To be fair, some of them were pretty dang good. Like this painting with woody is fairly good - but looks weird to us because we know woody is 'wrong'
I agree but this painting depicts Woody at a modern stadium with glaciers in the background.
Load More Replies...Woody is frying high on some sort of substance, but what is going on in the background with the stone guy on the cross? Why is he even there? For that matter why is the person in the red shirt next to Woody looking at two mobile phones?
Idk It’s Kind Of Creepy To Me
Yes. The older car was not aerodynamic, so it was like the wind resistance was holding it back, while the wind just slides smoothly right over the new model aerodynamic car. Not creepy at all, and I agree it’s a cool illustration.
Load More Replies...The streamlined car looks like a 1930s Tatra Model 87. Tatra was a spectacularly sophisticated and technologically advanced luxury automobile made in Czechoslovakia. It had a rear-mounted V8 engine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatra_87
the reddit user who posted it is clearly overly fragile over this
The "Airflow" was produced by Chrysler from 1934 to 1937. Made WAY too much sense ... at the time.
Still, looks more like Tatra. True aerodynamic pioneers.
Load More Replies...Ah Yes, Cannibalism
He is holding the cracked skull of a child
Load More Replies...On the caramel bag, two of them are pulling apart a caramel M&M with the caramel curling across the bag. Murderers. 6h977d7vj24z.jpg
(cartoon gore warning)
Strangebob
“So, is this how it should look, boss?” “Not quite right, slap a Pennywise smile on it and call it a day.”
Nightmares Unlimited
Nice to see leather face found some honest work after all that nasty business
He ended up going to trade school, and honestly, good for him!
Load More Replies...Creepy Coincidence
This reminds me of a FNAF based game that I watched called five nights at jolly bees
Its jollybee i dont know much about the place but i have heard about it
Jollibee! The McDonalds of the Philippines. They have some McDonalds as well these days but Jollibee is bigger I think. I know it is the one my little nephew was excited about. And IMO the food is better than McDonalds. Getting chicken and rice or pork or whatever at a roadside restaurant is still a better value but Jollibee is kind of reasonable.
Seen In Bulgaria
I low key like freak show mannequins. They are weird, but on the plus side they are not promoting a body image people can't live up to. Nobody looks at s..t like this and tells themselves, "I need to develop an eating disorder so I can be just like that"
I think from where he just moved his hand from is why she is smiling.
Reminds me of this: hot-dog-ad...2c30ab.jpg
are they drunk they been drinking beer? Especially the boy he looks like hes about to climb da wall
This Dog Toy
Looks like a hemorrhaging anthropomorphic wiener (a bloody, human looking hotdog)
made specifically for the more aggressive dogs that don’t leave remains.
Give it to my dog so he can shred it to teensy bits IMMEDIATELY. Doesn't matter how durable the packaging claims it is...gunner has managed to rip up everything I buy him in under 30 minutes
The Hotdogs Have Spread To My Town By The Looks Of It
why does this look dirty for me... can someone give me bleach for my brain?
but whose parents wouldn't make their kids take a picture with that, i know mine did
Part of me is like "he's giving himself hair". The other (less innocent me) says he's sacrificing himself to save the children.
In Front Of My Local Game Store
Seems to me it’s a Casper the Friendly Ghost head they stuck on an octopus body and added the chains to hide the attachment line.
What's with the chain? Blink twice if you're being held against your will!
🎶these Boots Are Made For Hoppin, And That’s Just What They’ll Do. 🎶
Turn on the tiny cameras behind each eye and get a whole new look at the world.
Reminds me of that cartoon frog the white supremacists iconized about a decade ago.
Pepe! I'm mad they iconized him, he is a pure meme at heart :(
Load More Replies...I Found This Hidden Inside My Cupboard. It’s A Head Scratcher
What is that? On second thought, if I must say, do but plz don't.
Load More Replies...The thing on the top is creepy but they feel wonderful - more of a "massage" than a scratcher.
“Play On Me Before I Die. Please, It’s Killing Me!”
Interesting… what is it called in english? How do kids can get on? It looks like you would have to use some force?
This Babyseat At Mcdonalds
“Sit on me little kid. Come on. SIT ON ME YOU F*****G…” and then the kid sits on the seat and shuts it up.
Paprico
Attaaaack of the Killer Red Pepperrrrrrrrs; Attaaaack of the Killer Red Pepperrrrrrrrs.....
It looks looks like an advertisement for omegamart. Its an art exhibit in Las Vegas
Found This Beauty At A Brazilian Arcade
I'd rather not be in the situation that I would have to address it
Load More Replies...At My Local Grocery Store
Pmsl!! Was going to make a Mark joke until I just saw yours!! lol!!
Load More Replies...Terrifying
Peanut butter m&ms are good so good it causes the characters to commit cannibalism.
Not just cannibalism, after killing one of his kin, he wears the dead one's guts on his head.
Load More Replies...Face Maske For Extreme Cold Weather. Us Army
I worked outside on the eastern shore in the dead of winter, would have given my first check for one of those.
Yeah, I've been in some serious cold, and this seems like it'd be a godsend.
Load More Replies...The Croc, It Sees You ;o
This F**king Nightmare Of A Kids Shower
This is probably meant for toddlers and the parent would pick them up and put them there. It honestly looks kinda nice for my back.
Load More Replies...I am so used to these creepy shiny abominations from middle europe it is kinda comforting for me. Might look like a liminal space And liminal attachments but it feels homey somehow
Another example of creepy design? BP's arbitrary truncation of lists! I'll keep raising a stink till this stops!
Another example of creepy design? BP's arbitrary truncation of lists! I'll keep raising a stink till this stops!
