Bad design examples

Design is hard. Don Norman, author of the wonderful book The Design of Everyday Things (written in 1988 and still a classic!) asked a question in the first five minutes of a recent talk: Imagine yo…

Bad recycling poster

If typography design fails make you cringe, you've come to the right place! Here are 10 humorous typography mistakes that prove that some people just don't care about things like kerning and font choice.

11 hilarious examples of bad design

Human beings don’t always build things to last. Sometimes, they make such obvious mistakes that casual observers can’t believe they didn’t notice their design idea flaws from the get-go. Alas, we’re all flawed (much like some designs!) and most of us have a blind spot when it comes to the things we’re involved in.

Let's talk about graphic design. This first poster is an example of bad poster design. This is a pretty bad one. It kind of looks like they made this design in Word. The fonts they used all have really high x-heights(the lower case letters are almost as tall as the capital letters) which is usually the kind of font you'd use if you were going to have a lot of really small text, unless it was on purpose. Nothing in this poster design looks like it's on purpose though. The designer also…

Example of bad design - no order, variation of text justification, no respect of image

Which direction?

Bad example of Typography - I feel that this is a bad example of typography because the placement of each text is packed tightly together, making it difficult for us to read. Also, the kerning of the text is also close to each other. Not only that, this poster does not use colours to emphasise on the main points.

no one is paying attention to the broader issues of Brand presentation like this Starbucks Delivery Truck Branding Sucks.