Design fails

We can't all be visionaries like Frank Gehry - sometimes eccentric ideas just translate into crappy design - like the ones on the following list. No matter how many times we shame the bizarre creations of product designers everywhere, there seems to be an endless supply of poorly executed bad designs to choose from.

No matter how cramped your house/apartment/hovel, at least you can probably still access your toilet.

From two gay lions on Noah's Ark to a bottle of boy syrup, these hilarious fails show that designers are always just a tiny step away from screwing up. These pics were collected from a subreddit called "Crappy Design", which features some of the funniest examples of their work that prove the importance of every punctuation mark and other little details.

Every designer wants to become the next Giorgetto Giugiaro or Le Corbusier but many end up creating some pretty hilarious and terrible designs before they do.

Design blunders are being shared by eagle-eyed social media users around the world; from misprinted slogans, to a light switch cover that should never have made it to the shop floor.

No matter how cramped your house/apartment/hovel, at least you can probably still access your toilet.

Grammar is good for you.

Normally, we like to showcase great design but there’s a lot you can learn from dreadful design too. Here's a list of #designfail: https://www.interaction-design.org/literature/article/design-failures?utm_source=pinterest&utm_medium=post

Sometimes people just have one job to do and they still manage to screw it up. In fact, they manage to screw it up so bad it's even difficult to believe they didn't notice. Luckily, when you're not the one who messed up it can be pretty funny. To be fair, everyone makes mistakes, but these mistakes... They just bring up one question: WHY?

Designing products, packaging and labels for children is extra tricky because they are a vulnerable part of our society. So when child product designers fail, they usually fail spectacularly.