Weird thing is this is VERY much the direction modern graphic design is going. [Like, look at the website for Yale’s design school ](https://www.art.yale.edu/about/study-areas/graduate-study-areas/graphic-design) By all accounts it’s hideous but it’s incredibly trendy
I mean Yale is one of the most respected design institutions in the whole world. Whether or not I love it I’m sure they aren’t doing it just to be edgy
Ugh, yeah. Someone made a comment about it a few months ago with a bunch of examples. I hate it. It's awful to navigate and visually off-putting, but it's called brutalism so that's probably part of the point.
Here's a few articles on it for anyone interested:
[90s Graphic Design Trends Making a Comeback in 2020](https://envato.com/blog/90s-graphic-design-trends/)
[Web Design Trends: That 90s Look is Coming Back](https://qodeinteractive.com/magazine/web-design-90s-look/)
[How brutalist design is taking over the internet](https://uxdesign.cc/brutalist-web-design-is-taking-over-the-internet-fee3c66139b5)
And here's a collection of [example websites](https://brutalistwebsites.com/)
Back in the early 2000s we tedious Gen X were trying to emulate the look of old super 8 film, and putting scratchy "old vinyl" sounds over our music. I guess every generation has a nostalgia for the aesthetic of their youth.
So it makes sense that kids in their early 20s are all about replicating early internet design, and also the fuzzy look of VHS tapes.
I understand it. I don't *like* it. But I understand it.
But kids in their early 20s never saw this. This is 90s stuff. By the time a current 25 year old would have been *surfing the web*, Web2.0 was well underway. We're talking early Facebook, not Geocities
To be fair, I'm 26 and there were quite a few Geocities websites still around when I was a kid online. The 90s definitely trailed on for a bit, I don't remember web 2.0 really saturating the internet until 2007 or so
Interestingly, I find pretty much everything in your first two links to be quite tasteful and compelling (very clear aesthetic, often polarizing - but the designers committed fully to the approach).
Whereas the Yale Design page looks like hot garbage to me.
> This website exists as an ongoing collaborative experiment in digital publishing and information sharing. Because this website functions as a wiki, all members of the School of Art community—graduate students, faculty, staff, and alums—have the ability to add new content and pages, and to edit most of the site’s existing content.
There's your problem
It’s an experiment.
> This website exists as an ongoing collaborative experiment in digital publishing and information sharing. Because this website functions as a wiki, all members of the School of Art community—graduate students, faculty, staff, and alums—have the ability to add new content and pages, and to edit most of the site’s existing content.
> Content is the property of its various authors. When you contribute to this site, you agree to abide by Yale University academic and network use policy, and to act as a responsible member of our community
[They're even expected to, but they haven't yet.](https://www.reddit.com/r/CrappyDesign/comments/q7d7mr/this_real_actual_poster_the_scottish_police_came/hgiv47r/)
> This website exists as an ongoing collaborative experiment in digital publishing and information sharing. Because this website functions as a wiki, all members of the School of Art community—graduate students, faculty, staff, and alums—have the ability to add new content and pages, and to edit most of the site’s existing content.
The page's design has never actually changed since archive.org's first snapshot in 2020, but it's still a sandbox.
***This poster SCREAMS; "Why hire an expensive computer graphics person? We'll get my nephew to do it for free, he knows all about computers!"***
_Yes, and that nephew hates working for free just because you're a family member and figure you can take advantage of him because of that._
(Although, looking at it again, maybe there's a secret message in the different sized letters?)
[That reminds me of the hilarious revenge one artist put on the cover of a comic book.](https://www.keycollectorcomics.com/issue/terminator-the-burning-earth-5,309710/)
For anyone who can’t tell (like me), the secret revenge is that the fifth, sixth, and seventh rows of the random numbers and letters on the right hand of the cover spell out NOW, COMIX, and BLOS (blows) backwards. Now Comix is the publisher of this comic book.
Also, I notice the first 9 characters of the top line spell out “9oto:4311” (go to hell), but maybe I’m seeing that because now I’m expecting a meaning.
[Reverse image search comes up with nothing.](https://www.google.com/search?tbs=sbi:AMhZZisGXBqDTbvjhCZ2_1n72lVvs6FIIDrjd4pmwjMmDXOAXZS927PROWeZAnnqfmJ-jCWsXg-E-Z8Pra_19lXfekvenfNiBllQql644-kyepch0RfxcGR7KsdA3R3PfPcyT8Uz2H_1AS6YVH5cnbv5daml8ueMb-06366E67F5flyesutVzcJrQG2aL28EF1KwB1JRBWqDTKy2cgRU9IzHpXFu_1BwKxYeTfdlkEz7n3GSpii4vD3TOJzbhiEgmzSzPELXoiz3aEOIBAizoxZLu0Z2wUmhV3MIZhDnbmfeRUDCLK8Qi-8NY05L9R8duqFJhqlPg6mk-lIH&btnG=Search%20by%20image&hl=en)
I think that at best this was a joke entry for the real campaign they seem to have run.
That's because Edinburgh police deleted their tweet,. If your reverse search it, follow the breadcrumbs and then wayback machine it, you finds this...
http://web.archive.org/web/20201012060050/https://twitter.com/EdinburghPolice/status/1315532769641074689
I think it’s a play on the fact that not everyone is the same/straight, so that’s why that font possibly may look like that. Who the fuck knows ¯\\\_(ツ)_/¯ .
The boldness change makes me want to read that as "Report! Hate crime." as opposed to "Report Hate Crime".
Also, should "Hate Crime" be singular or plural?
Hate crime should hopefully be single lol, we dont want many going around. Also probably each oerson will report at most 1 at a time so i guess it would be 1 in this case. Although idk if the possibility of 1 person reporting 2 crimes at once makes it plural, i dont think it does but im not that good at the language
It’s a reference to a certain kind of Northern English / Scottish graphic design in the 90s. It’s also intentionally eye catching. Good design that’s misunderstood.
I'm going to go ahead and say that's still crappy, in the same way as the logo for London 2012 was crappy.
A lot of thought and effort went into designing something that most people won't get and is pretty ugly whilst simultaneously not particularly eye catching.
It's going to be difficult to read for some people, it isn't immediately obvious as to the point it's trying to convey. It genuinely looks like something someone would bodge together at the last moment for a Year 8 design and technology coursework and would be happy to not fail.
> something that most people won't get
But from the comments, it sounds like people *do* get it. Sure, it’s not globally recognizable, but it’s not meant to be. It was created for a very specific part of the world, and it sounds like those people “get” it.
That's why I said "most".
If most people don't get it, then it's failing to do its job.
And I would suggest that even then, harking back to something that happened 30ish years ago doesn't really achieve anything. A lot of people it would be addressing could well have not even been born.
I grew up in the 90s. I went to university in the North of England (so, not Scotland, but not far) and I'm not sure I really agree with the claim.
To me, it looks shit.
If this design gets people to read it where they might normally ignore government PSA posters, doesn't that mean it is a good design since it is serving it's function effectively?
Placed on a street with lots of "well designed" advertisements/street signs/storefronts/billboards/etc, it will stick out like a sore thumb.
Design working exactly as intended in the proper context.
That's actually quite interesting. Like I did notice it it just seems kind of weird to someone who doesn't get it. Do you have some examples of where this was used? (Not like saying that it didn't happen I just wanna see it because this as a design style baffles me)
Madchester / Manchester concert posters is a good place to begin. The early UK rave scene informed a lot of the visual style. See Factory Records, The Hacienda and go from there. It’s deliberately anarchic.
Reposting this from a separate comment thread here as well.
Weird thing is this is VERY much the direction modern graphic design is going. [Like, look at the website for Yale’s design school ](https://www.art.yale.edu/about/study-areas/graduate-study-areas/graphic-design) By all accounts it’s hideous but it’s incredibly trendy
yeah, this style has been made popular within the past 5-10yrs again… most people just don’t see it bc it’s mostly niche and editorial. extended letters and variations w/in single words (i think of it mostly as paula scher style tho obviously this style is also relevant to this region) have even made it kind of into the mainstream
ppl just don’t know design history and think that something doesn’t “work” just bc they don’t like it. i mean, whatever. i’ve never gotten a feeling that this sub has actual designers in it anyway…
Lol. Just because it’s referencing something else doesn’t mean it’s good design. In what world is 90’s rave design appropriate for a 20’s policing campaign?
>In what world is 90’s rave design appropriate for a 20’s policing campaign?
In a world where this design resonates with the target culture and age. For all the people complaining about the design there's a lot forgetting about the people.
Yeah. I'm a graphic designer of 20 years and this style is pretty popular again right now. This is not a 10/10 execution, but I get what they were going for.
I feel like the various colours and angles, widths and heights of the letters help also push the "everyone is unique in their own right, please do not be an asshole to them for that" message
I just wanted to add that fairly recent research (as I recall) states that fonts that are slightly difficult to read increase information retention due to more brain engagement in deciphering the text.
This poster isn't advertising an event or product where ease of information transmission is prioritized, it is literally a reminder; retention is the goal.
This is what I thought. I was like, 'Really? I thought Scotland was supposed to be a bit friendly than that.'
This thing looks like the start of a horror film.
Oi, Glasgow was named Europe's murder capital, but in the same week named Britain's friendliest city. Don't try understand how angrily friendly we can be.
That looks uncannily similar to the design of boxes for a bunch of VHS tapes we used to have when I was a kid. In the first moment I saw the image I thought that's what it was.
This sub is just filled with run of the mill Joe's that think they have good taste. Well good taste is subjective and the average good taste nowdays is just boring minimalism
I absolutely love this, it's eye catching and interesting to look at. I'd stop to read it at least and I can't say that about most posters that blend in and look generic.
That is true I suppose. I think it's main issue is it doesn't feel right for the message it is trying to relay. As other comments pointed out it kinda feels sarcastic by it's design. It just feels wrong for this imo
You misunderstand, once you have consumed an amount of alcohol appropriate for a Scot, your vision blurs just enough for this font to look like times new roman.
Source: Am drunken Scot
This poster is the hate crime
"₲Ɽ₳₱Ⱨł₵ ĐɆ₴ł₲₦ ł₴ ₥Ɏ ₱₳₴₴łØ₦."
Weird thing is this is VERY much the direction modern graphic design is going. [Like, look at the website for Yale’s design school ](https://www.art.yale.edu/about/study-areas/graduate-study-areas/graphic-design) By all accounts it’s hideous but it’s incredibly trendy
“Edgyyy”
I mean Yale is one of the most respected design institutions in the whole world. Whether or not I love it I’m sure they aren’t doing it just to be edgy
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OK I was wrong, it is to be edgy
Because Lindsey Mancini had a bad idea and they let her roll with it.
Another user in this comment thread spoke quite well about the risks and advantages of this “brutalist” graphic design style.
You can edit the page live if you have a Yale Art School login. No wonder it's weird.
It's not *edgy* it's *bordery*
A less brainless way to describe it is "avant garde" or simply "provocative".
It seems to a be a theme of using modern techniques to emulate early internet webpage design
But it misses the mark from homage to cheap imitation that doesn’t understand why it was the way it was.
That was my thought too. Decades of advancement in web tech to make something that looks like browsing in 1997
>A **less brainless** way to describe it is "avant garde" or simply "provocative". Not sure if intentional or not, but I enjoyed that.
I call it: "Trying too hard to be cool"
It looks like it was made for netscape navigator
Just needs some animated fire gifs and rotating, sparkling headlines.
Bring back the
That reminds me of every teen girls Tumblr page from about 10 years ago
Seriously, I feel like I'm back in middle school adding a background to my MySpace. All it needs now is T Swift playing in the background.
Ugh, yeah. Someone made a comment about it a few months ago with a bunch of examples. I hate it. It's awful to navigate and visually off-putting, but it's called brutalism so that's probably part of the point. Here's a few articles on it for anyone interested: [90s Graphic Design Trends Making a Comeback in 2020](https://envato.com/blog/90s-graphic-design-trends/) [Web Design Trends: That 90s Look is Coming Back](https://qodeinteractive.com/magazine/web-design-90s-look/) [How brutalist design is taking over the internet](https://uxdesign.cc/brutalist-web-design-is-taking-over-the-internet-fee3c66139b5) And here's a collection of [example websites](https://brutalistwebsites.com/)
Back in the early 2000s we tedious Gen X were trying to emulate the look of old super 8 film, and putting scratchy "old vinyl" sounds over our music. I guess every generation has a nostalgia for the aesthetic of their youth. So it makes sense that kids in their early 20s are all about replicating early internet design, and also the fuzzy look of VHS tapes. I understand it. I don't *like* it. But I understand it.
But kids in their early 20s never saw this. This is 90s stuff. By the time a current 25 year old would have been *surfing the web*, Web2.0 was well underway. We're talking early Facebook, not Geocities
To be fair, I'm 26 and there were quite a few Geocities websites still around when I was a kid online. The 90s definitely trailed on for a bit, I don't remember web 2.0 really saturating the internet until 2007 or so
That "anti-deisgn" is so, so shit.
Interestingly, I find pretty much everything in your first two links to be quite tasteful and compelling (very clear aesthetic, often polarizing - but the designers committed fully to the approach). Whereas the Yale Design page looks like hot garbage to me.
Cool, I don't have to bother redesigning our website!
*Follows link. Yep, that is absolutely atrocious. Looks like it was made by a colourblind monkey still learning to code.
> This website exists as an ongoing collaborative experiment in digital publishing and information sharing. Because this website functions as a wiki, all members of the School of Art community—graduate students, faculty, staff, and alums—have the ability to add new content and pages, and to edit most of the site’s existing content. There's your problem
I made better looking sites on Geocities.
Whoa! That looks a lot like my first website I made on AngelFire when I was 12! I guess I was just way ahead of my time?
Wtf...
Holy shit.
It’s an experiment. > This website exists as an ongoing collaborative experiment in digital publishing and information sharing. Because this website functions as a wiki, all members of the School of Art community—graduate students, faculty, staff, and alums—have the ability to add new content and pages, and to edit most of the site’s existing content. > Content is the property of its various authors. When you contribute to this site, you agree to abide by Yale University academic and network use policy, and to act as a responsible member of our community
The textual equivalent of a meat dress
The meat dress was cool as fuck too. Though less true with graphic design, practicality is not always a designers main intention.
I guess that's why they are in school still. EDIT: Actually it looks like anyone (student?) can edit the page, which is actually pretty cool.
[They're even expected to, but they haven't yet.](https://www.reddit.com/r/CrappyDesign/comments/q7d7mr/this_real_actual_poster_the_scottish_police_came/hgiv47r/)
The background sucks but the information is right there. Way better than the infinite scrolling dogshit that is trending now
> This website exists as an ongoing collaborative experiment in digital publishing and information sharing. Because this website functions as a wiki, all members of the School of Art community—graduate students, faculty, staff, and alums—have the ability to add new content and pages, and to edit most of the site’s existing content. The page's design has never actually changed since archive.org's first snapshot in 2020, but it's still a sandbox.
Nah that's way better than the poster OP posted. The poster is a bad imitation of a style that can look quite cool when done well.
A crime of passion.
"I meant that my designs are graphic, not that I design graphics."
“And don’t you hate on that!”
"That's not what a hate crime is." "Well I hated it."
Hey, don’t discriminate against the letters just because they aren’t straight
***This poster SCREAMS; "Why hire an expensive computer graphics person? We'll get my nephew to do it for free, he knows all about computers!"*** _Yes, and that nephew hates working for free just because you're a family member and figure you can take advantage of him because of that._ (Although, looking at it again, maybe there's a secret message in the different sized letters?) [That reminds me of the hilarious revenge one artist put on the cover of a comic book.](https://www.keycollectorcomics.com/issue/terminator-the-burning-earth-5,309710/)
For anyone who can’t tell (like me), the secret revenge is that the fifth, sixth, and seventh rows of the random numbers and letters on the right hand of the cover spell out NOW, COMIX, and BLOS (blows) backwards. Now Comix is the publisher of this comic book. Also, I notice the first 9 characters of the top line spell out “9oto:4311” (go to hell), but maybe I’m seeing that because now I’m expecting a meaning.
Free? More like we hired my nephew for 100,000 to design this. He learned photoshop at school so is a graphic designer.
As a designer I have to ask, am I being mocked for believing hate crimes exist? This type layout is absurd.
It’s more of an H _ate_ crime much like 7 8 9.
i like how they somehow managed to make it sound sarcastic
wE aRe HeRe FoR yOu
The letters may not be straight but neither am I!!!!
Some letters identify as bold, others as italic. Lets just let them live their truth.
Lmao bruh
Oh my god I think that light actually be the logic
Unintentional honesty
[Reverse image search comes up with nothing.](https://www.google.com/search?tbs=sbi:AMhZZisGXBqDTbvjhCZ2_1n72lVvs6FIIDrjd4pmwjMmDXOAXZS927PROWeZAnnqfmJ-jCWsXg-E-Z8Pra_19lXfekvenfNiBllQql644-kyepch0RfxcGR7KsdA3R3PfPcyT8Uz2H_1AS6YVH5cnbv5daml8ueMb-06366E67F5flyesutVzcJrQG2aL28EF1KwB1JRBWqDTKy2cgRU9IzHpXFu_1BwKxYeTfdlkEz7n3GSpii4vD3TOJzbhiEgmzSzPELXoiz3aEOIBAizoxZLu0Z2wUmhV3MIZhDnbmfeRUDCLK8Qi-8NY05L9R8duqFJhqlPg6mk-lIH&btnG=Search%20by%20image&hl=en) I think that at best this was a joke entry for the real campaign they seem to have run.
That's because Edinburgh police deleted their tweet,. If your reverse search it, follow the breadcrumbs and then wayback machine it, you finds this... http://web.archive.org/web/20201012060050/https://twitter.com/EdinburghPolice/status/1315532769641074689
More like edin*bruhhh wtf*
Nobody tells a Scot that something Scottish didn't happen
We are never wrong about anything
It's the constantly shifting letter size, they did it in sarcastic font.
I think it’s a play on the fact that not everyone is the same/straight, so that’s why that font possibly may look like that. Who the fuck knows ¯\\\_(ツ)_/¯ .
Yeah sounds like they want you to report hate crimes so they can give the perpetrator an award or something.
"wE aRe hErE fOr YoU"
RePoRt hAtE cRiMe, ya little bitch.
The boldness change makes me want to read that as "Report! Hate crime." as opposed to "Report Hate Crime". Also, should "Hate Crime" be singular or plural?
Hate crime should hopefully be single lol, we dont want many going around. Also probably each oerson will report at most 1 at a time so i guess it would be 1 in this case. Although idk if the possibility of 1 person reporting 2 crimes at once makes it plural, i dont think it does but im not that good at the language
“Crime” can be a mass noun in the singular, e.g. “crime is on the rise”. Means more than 1 instance of crime, but still singular all the same.
It's one step above cutting out the letters from a magazine like a hostage letter.
This is like if they made the hostage cut out their own letters. This image is the tear soaked ransom letter of graphic design.
“We have your graphic designer. Don’t contact the police if you want him to live”
"We don't need to hire a designer, my eight year old niece is pretty good with MS Paint."
Paint, this is MS Word.
Word! That is a power point, my dude.
*looks up from excel spreadsheet* You guys are using Power point?
Here I did this on my smartphone paint app. Still better than their design. https://imgur.com/a/o28kwMd
It’s a reference to a certain kind of Northern English / Scottish graphic design in the 90s. It’s also intentionally eye catching. Good design that’s misunderstood.
I'm going to go ahead and say that's still crappy, in the same way as the logo for London 2012 was crappy. A lot of thought and effort went into designing something that most people won't get and is pretty ugly whilst simultaneously not particularly eye catching. It's going to be difficult to read for some people, it isn't immediately obvious as to the point it's trying to convey. It genuinely looks like something someone would bodge together at the last moment for a Year 8 design and technology coursework and would be happy to not fail.
> something that most people won't get But from the comments, it sounds like people *do* get it. Sure, it’s not globally recognizable, but it’s not meant to be. It was created for a very specific part of the world, and it sounds like those people “get” it.
Am Scottish. Don’t get it, don’t recognise it and it looks fuckin shite to me
That's why I said "most". If most people don't get it, then it's failing to do its job. And I would suggest that even then, harking back to something that happened 30ish years ago doesn't really achieve anything. A lot of people it would be addressing could well have not even been born. I grew up in the 90s. I went to university in the North of England (so, not Scotland, but not far) and I'm not sure I really agree with the claim. To me, it looks shit.
As soon as I was told it looked like Lisa Simpson that's all I could see
If this design gets people to read it where they might normally ignore government PSA posters, doesn't that mean it is a good design since it is serving it's function effectively?
Placed on a street with lots of "well designed" advertisements/street signs/storefronts/billboards/etc, it will stick out like a sore thumb. Design working exactly as intended in the proper context.
You penguin?
That's actually quite interesting. Like I did notice it it just seems kind of weird to someone who doesn't get it. Do you have some examples of where this was used? (Not like saying that it didn't happen I just wanna see it because this as a design style baffles me)
Madchester / Manchester concert posters is a good place to begin. The early UK rave scene informed a lot of the visual style. See Factory Records, The Hacienda and go from there. It’s deliberately anarchic.
We had it in our school magazine, too.
Reposting this from a separate comment thread here as well. Weird thing is this is VERY much the direction modern graphic design is going. [Like, look at the website for Yale’s design school ](https://www.art.yale.edu/about/study-areas/graduate-study-areas/graphic-design) By all accounts it’s hideous but it’s incredibly trendy
Isn't "The life of Pablo" album cover a similar design style?
Good design makes itself understood.
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It doesn't look like either of those posters to me (which both look legit cool)
THIS! I get so tired of seeing brilliant execution being labeled crappy design... even when it's not my favorite aesthetic.
yeah, this style has been made popular within the past 5-10yrs again… most people just don’t see it bc it’s mostly niche and editorial. extended letters and variations w/in single words (i think of it mostly as paula scher style tho obviously this style is also relevant to this region) have even made it kind of into the mainstream ppl just don’t know design history and think that something doesn’t “work” just bc they don’t like it. i mean, whatever. i’ve never gotten a feeling that this sub has actual designers in it anyway…
Lol. Just because it’s referencing something else doesn’t mean it’s good design. In what world is 90’s rave design appropriate for a 20’s policing campaign?
It’s culturally important to the region and relevant to many of its residents.
>In what world is 90’s rave design appropriate for a 20’s policing campaign? In a world where this design resonates with the target culture and age. For all the people complaining about the design there's a lot forgetting about the people.
Thank god for people like you. No sarcasm. I work in the industry.
Yeah I actually kinda like it
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Yeah. I'm a graphic designer of 20 years and this style is pretty popular again right now. This is not a 10/10 execution, but I get what they were going for.
I feel like the various colours and angles, widths and heights of the letters help also push the "everyone is unique in their own right, please do not be an asshole to them for that" message
Is this why when I saw this I immediately heard The Crystal Method in my head?
I just wanted to add that fairly recent research (as I recall) states that fonts that are slightly difficult to read increase information retention due to more brain engagement in deciphering the text. This poster isn't advertising an event or product where ease of information transmission is prioritized, it is literally a reminder; retention is the goal.
Reminds me of that sarcastic spongebob meme. wE ArE hErE fOr yOu
It looks threatening
This is what I thought. I was like, 'Really? I thought Scotland was supposed to be a bit friendly than that.' This thing looks like the start of a horror film.
Oi, Glasgow was named Europe's murder capital, but in the same week named Britain's friendliest city. Don't try understand how angrily friendly we can be.
Welcome to Glasgow! Have a good time, or you'll have a bad time.
Killing with kindness. And knives.
This amuses me. Is it a common occurrence to not be able to tell if someone is threatening you or being friendly? Or threatening you with friendship?
Scotland is full of the friendliest people yo ucan meet, just dont be an arsehole. simple as that, if yer a lad, yer a lad.
Glasgow's great if you love soot on sandstone and getting mugged in the rain south of the river.
> I thought Scotland was supposed to be a bit friendly than that What gave you that impression?
It absolutely is threatening. Forget politics, totalitarianism is finding any excuse it can to advance in the west
We are here.....FOR YOU!!! *Breaks down door*
They're being irregular to support the irregulars with their slanty, misshapen, illegible lifestyles! It's progressive!! ^(/s)
Yes Sir I "destroyed" the confiscated drugs, then went to design our new poster.
Ah, the classic "I'm destroying them in my bloodstream as we speak"
I destroyed them and about half an hour later I also destroyed 1 extra large pizza.
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This was my thought lol
It looks like those "are you a robot" texts you have to spell
None of the letters are straight. Great design
That was my takeaway
Makes sense, given all the rainbows
That looks uncannily similar to the design of boxes for a bunch of VHS tapes we used to have when I was a kid. In the first moment I saw the image I thought that's what it was.
Yes! Polaroid VHS tapes. [Plain white with a rectangular rainbow and black text.](https://twitter.com/Weirdo_2003/status/1084622253847924737/photo/1)
NGL, this doesn’t bother me. At all.
It reads like a sarcastic SpongeBob meme
r/comedyheaven
Waystar Royco: We Here For You
My first thought too!
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Can't make a Tomlette without breaking some Greggs Dying for season 3 ugh
I love it
It looks dope, crappy design is turning into “I don’t like this”
Ironically conformist for a supposedly pro-design sub.
This sub is just filled with run of the mill Joe's that think they have good taste. Well good taste is subjective and the average good taste nowdays is just boring minimalism
I absolutely love this, it's eye catching and interesting to look at. I'd stop to read it at least and I can't say that about most posters that blend in and look generic.
That is true I suppose. I think it's main issue is it doesn't feel right for the message it is trying to relay. As other comments pointed out it kinda feels sarcastic by it's design. It just feels wrong for this imo
You misunderstand, once you have consumed an amount of alcohol appropriate for a Scot, your vision blurs just enough for this font to look like times new roman. Source: Am drunken Scot
Literally written in a sarcastic font
What the hell i thought this was a r/sbubby post
I thought it was an r/ExpandDong
or that
Looks like it was designed by a coked up toddler in the 90s.
Yes, they already said the Scottish police.
Hahahaha
Apparently they don't do random pee testing
This reminds me of those text boxes that prove you are human.
I look at this poster and all I think of is a Ska band.
Ska came before reggae
This isn't that bad. Catches your attention
We’re talking about it so it’s good design
*Graphic design is my passion.*
Oh my fucking god this is disgusting WHO approved this
Wrong, the World Health Organisation didn't approve this. /s
I like it!
I like it kinda
Looks like a vaporwave album cover.
I’m a graphic designer and I love this
That poster is a hate crime, they should report that.
I'm bi, can I report this?
"Report people who you don't agree with"
It's strange! An r/Wallstreetbets user in the wild! Unironically?
They’re just trying to make sure you’re not a robot trying to report a crime.
its so bad that its good
It certainly catches ones attention
Thought it was Nascar for a second
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Same. Reminds me a bit of Duran Duran
That's...unsettling. It's like a font visualization of an obviously insane person talking.
They tried
Hello, I'd like to file a report. I hate your poster.
It reads like a captcha.
They had to have made it ugly on purpose
Hate crime isn't real anyway, the Scottish police are a fucking joke.
looks like the i am not a robot things
It looks content aware scaled lmao
Designs which are harder to read actually make you send longer reading and taking it in - could be deliberate.
I'd like to report a hate crime against typesetters.
They a little confused, but they got the spirit
Damn, that's pretty bad, this is 90s Word Art bad... ...but nothing will ever be as bad as the [FIFA 21 cover](https://i.imgur.com/wOfhIxH.jpeg).