20 Absurd Design Fails

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by James Plafke | 4:20 pm, August 10th, 2011

Sometimes you’re driving down the street or walking up and down the isles of a department store and catch something designed so absurdly that the only possible explanation must be that the designer was pulling one over on us. From straws in cups that resemble a particular part of the male anatomy, to awkwardly phrased item names that brand you a pedophile and ad campaigns that make it look like there’s a bus driving around that sexually assaults its passengers, to a sink that sure looks like a toilet, to a very perverted Donald Duck, these unfortunately (or intentionally?) designed products, names, room layouts and ad campaigns sure make it seem like designers either don’t know what they’re doing, or are devious practical jokers.

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Still Laughing

phewww!…wait..hold-up…I soon comment…trying to stop laughing…
Guest000

I don’t get what’s so bad about #5?
laura

Aisles, not isles.
http://CRZ.net/ CRZ

If you click through, you’ll see that #11 is intentionally designed that way.

Also, now I want one.
Mike Pants

The implication that it’s a shaving kit for a toddler’s bikini area.
Jerry Baustian

Here’s a web design fail: advertising 20 pictures of pretty girls or funny animals or epic fails, then making you open 20 web pages to see all of them.

Thank you, Geekosystem, for putting these design fails all on one page. If you hadn’t, I probably would never have seen numbers 3-20.
d’oh

well you could click a link that says “view all in one page”. just saying look before you complain
double d’oh

Or reading the second part of the original statement before complaining about something which isn’t really a complaint. Just saying.
Anonymous

tinyurl.com/2df4ccp
Probably Dumb

Someone help me out with 18. Not seeing it.
Do’h

You got to be kidding me!…
(Just look at the shape of all that is blue, and then look at Mickey’s hand around it)
d k

And for #11 … that’s not a fail. It’s not even a memory stick. the only thing it does is hump your usb port. see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TzYdNfTiAU it doesn’t have any storage.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_Z4CJFSWSF6NJQ2QO56FEBHKHJM K

yeah, it’s stupid.
Pres2go

http://www.happyplace.com/9655/store-bought-picture-frame-does-not-judge
Anonymous

LoL.
dr. swayze

someone fire this fucking moron of a writer
berkaberkablue

i dont get #19
LOLface

The “Handicap ramp” isn’t a handicap ramp. It’s so you don’t trip over the curb -_-*
Tico

I’m glad I don’t have kids or instead of these being hilarious (I actually shed tears) I’d be disturbed.
Sativa11

what about number 19? I don’t get it either!
Thats Just Wrong Looking

I thought that one was the most evidently perverted, actually. Lol.
Anezz696

Yeah mad obvious…
Anezz696

Lol..
Anezz696

While very funny and entertaining this should def only be 15 absurd design fails lol.
http://www.comandopollo.com Comandopollo

You can see two more “special designs” with ballons.

http://www.comandopollo.com/2010/09/22/fotos-del-comando-%C2%BFpor-que-los-globos-son-asi/?lang=en

Everybody knows where must put the lips. :)
April

I don’t get #7???
Unto

The funniest thing is the water plug in batman s butthole
Anonymous

Don’t pee in the mop sink, whatever the hell that is.
Ginna Drae

Maybe the idea of starting so early??? lol

20 Absurd Design Fails

Ever see a product that is so suggestive in its design, placement or name that you wonder if the designer was trying to pull one over on you? Well, here's 20 of those. It sure seems like a few designers were either disgruntled or very big trolls.