All around us are made of designs. The screen you’re reading this from is a machine designed by some innovative genius with a vision. The words that are being typed into this paragraph are done through a keyboard, which is another instrument designed to key in characters such as adfaskjfhsdgafsad. And you, my friend, are also designed as a human, as well as everything that exists around you.

But we’re not here to delve into the mysteries of the world and how man is designed. Instead, we’ll be talking about how designs, like most things, fail. 

Every skill is honed by mastering the basics, which is why learning the foundations of basically anything is important when getting into it. This is the whole point of the famous Mr. Miyagi wax-on-wax-off scene in Karate Kid.

The basics are the most crucial thing when it comes to detail-oriented jobs like graphic design. And when these basics are done wrong, it’s often with hilarious (and embarrassing) results.

A bunch of memes are popping out online, poking fun at signages with texts arranged in all the wrong places. The basic rules of layout and typography are thrown out the window and we could only wonder how any of these designs received the green light. 

It could be bad letter spacing, unfortunate placement, or a case of sleep deprivation that the designer just gave up and submitted that Final_final_veryfinal_FINALDESIGN.png to the higher ups that we could just wonder why they gave it a big thumbs up. 

Bob Ross did say, “There are no mistakes, only happy accidents.” He’s right, but the only happy ones here are people like me who laugh at the sight of design fails. 

I wrote too much and now I’m sleepy. Practice your basics well, okay?

Zzz,

Catchy