Design is the unspoken language of the universe. It’s everywhere, whether we know it or not. The clothes you’re wearing, the chair you’re sitting on, the screen you’re looking at, the font that this is typed in… somebody had to make those. Of course, in the era of AI, there might be less and less …
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25 Wacky Design Fails Found in the Wild (January 28, 2024)
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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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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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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Spicy Design Fails That Are Worthy of Double Takes
It’s easy to complain about the state of design these days. It seems like the graphic designers of the world got together to make everything as bland or amorphous as possible. Logos have been stripped down to look as basic as they come, and most graphics, especially of people, resemble abstract art or single-celled organisms …
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Dude Gets Dunked On For Proposing Housing Developers Start Building Underground
It doesn’t take a genius to realize that we’re in the midst of a housing crisis right now. Numerous major cities are pricing out many of the people that live there with extortionate and ever-increasing rent prices, and that’s only if there are enough places to live for everyone who needs them (spoiler alert: there …
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30 Chuckleworthy Christmas Design Fails
During the Christmas season, many people want everything to be «just so.» Perfect lights. Perfect tree. Perfect family dinner. But if the past few years have taught us anything, it’s that things don’t always go as planned. Sometimes our good holiday intentions result in accidentally dirty spectacles and fails. And if we’re being honest, sometimes …
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Bad Houses That Made Us Very, Very Mad
It’s usually fun to make fun of shitty design. Especially in the home. Interior design offenses like these simply make us laugh or cringe and then we move on with our dull little lives. They don’t burn themselves into our minds like the cursed homes burned into our minds thanks to Twitter user @MoistenedTart. I’ve …
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