As the ancient adage says, «Graphic design is my passion.» Written in Comic Sans, neon green on a yellow background, size 8 font so you can’t read it. As a person with very limited Photoshop skills, I admire the divas who can bring their visions to life with a few strokes of the keyboard. It’s …
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25 Baffling Design Choices Found in the Wild
I’m no designer, but I do have common sense. Sometimes we get so caught up in trying to make something look good that we lose sight of its actual functionality. As the saying goes, we were so busy wondering if we can that we didn’t stop and ask if we should. But I’m all for a wonky design choice. …
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40 Humorously Preposterous Signs Found in the Wild
I’m the type of person who believes in signs from the universe. I believe in fated coincidences, real-life symbolism, and cosmic happenstances. Why? Because it’s way more fun to be the type of person who believes than the type of person who doesn’t. I know there are a lot of logical realists out there who …
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30 Weird Products and Fake Brands That Could Be a Hard Sell
The world of retail is a wild place. It’s in a constant state of second guessing what the mighty consumer might want to spend their hard-earned money on next, and it can take some rather large leaps of faith when it does that. It’s no wonder that the genre of meme-worthy fake products is a …
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24 Lackadaisical Design Choices That Baffle the Mind
We all slack off now and then. It’s part of human nature to get a little lazy sometimes and do the bare minimum required to stay afloat. The other day, I ordered delivery for a salad I was craving, and after I pressed send on the delivery, I realized I had almost every ingredient needed …
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25 Times Designers Were Asleep at the Wheel
Few things can be as frustrating as bad design. When your water bottle is just a hair too big to fit under the faucet, when the pockets of your new jeans are actually faux pockets, or when you push a door that’s clearly marked «pull.» Okay, maybe that last one is user error. Why am …
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30 Typing Errors We Don’t Want Autocorrect To Fix
Remember the 5th grade spelling bee? I do. I was up to bat, and the pressure was on. The stage lights were beating on me, and sweat began to form on my brow. I looked out to the judge’s table to see Mrs. Appleby, my vicious language arts teacher, already scowling. She had it out …
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Graphic Design Memes For Frustrated Designers
Graphic design is one of those fields that everybody thinks they understand. So many people believe that graphic design is a field you enter when you’ve failed at being an artist, but that’s simply untrue. In reality, graphic design and art are related but not interchangeable. There are a lot of incredible artists who can’t …
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Weird Signs That Would Make Any ‘Ace of Base’ Member Open Up Their Eyes
Ever since I was in high school, I’ve been obsessed with weird signs. My school had countless posters on the wall to motivate us, but all we did was make fun of them. The most iconic of them read this: «30 years from now, it won’t matter what shoes you wore, how your hair looked, …
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40+ Hideous Houses That Are Experiencing an Existential Crisis
Ever see one of those absolutely atrocious McMansions with way too many shuttered windows and inexplicable turrets? Then there are those cursed living rooms with too many out-of-place objects for comfort, like a random toilet where the fireplace should be, or marble steps leading to nowhere. Keep scrolling for a collection of houses with menacing …
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