7 Examples of The Funny Side of Design

July 23, 2009 · 2 comments

The world is certainly not without humour.

Thankfully.

Whether it appears to be accidental or deliberate, there are some things in life which either make you roll your eyes at their stupidity, or laugh at how hilarious it may be.

Below are some funny (and odd) examples of design related things gone wrong, and turned on their head.

1. I’m sure Yahoo thought this through, and had the best designers on the job.

Funny then that they should use purple on a black background for a poster. Legible? I think not. [source]

Yahoo woops!

2. Having owned a Dell laptop prior to my Macbook Pro, I can totally agree with this.

The Dell design for packing the charger for travel is far superior. [source]

Mac lose, Dell win.

3. Imagine driving towards this. A case of analysis paralysis if ever I saw one. [source]

Sign confusion

4. Sort of design related. This is extremely witty. lol?? ;) [source]

Portrait of a period

5. A bad experience perhaps? [source]

FudEx

6. Busy local design and printing company a) couldn’t print off something remotely attractive, b) demands that you “must fluent in English.” [source]

Must fluent in English

7. So…how are you to open this? [source]

Packaging irony

I hope you enjoyed this.

After a long hiatus, I am once again taking on clients for design work. Expect more articles to follow too.

{ 2 comments… read them below or add one }

subcorpus September 16, 2009 at 5:48 pm

yes … enjoyed …
the last one is the best … hehe …
openX … hehe …

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Armen September 16, 2009 at 5:59 pm

Yeah, kind of ironic. Eh?

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