design fails

There wouldn't be design without a healthy number of design fails. There's people putting telephone poles in the middle of roads, goofing up headlines, photoshopping the ever-loving reality out of their ads, and making classic stupid signs. You've gotta love it when someone makes a great big sign for their local "Pubic Library." Here are some wonderfully unprofessional "not my job" moments.

There are a lot of reasons for failure at someone's one job. Sometimes it's negligence or laziness. Sometimes someone is in the process of learning something new. Sometimes an otherwise competent person has to do the same job with no resources and in a quarter of the time. Sometimes it's the profound ability to ignore common sense. That one is our favorite. It's the main force behind design fails that didn't go as planned.

Not everyone can be great at their job. We're not exactly sure why that's the case, but it just seems to happen. People design things that look stupid and don't work all the time, and they never seem to stop filling the world with design fails that don't quite cut it. It's pretty cool. For more of these

Some things aren't gonna be perfect on the first try. Whether it's a sign that accidentally says "fart", a bus stop with a stupid roof or a pole literally in the middle of the road, there are design fails out there that need some work.