design fail

Ever see a product or a sign and wonder how it got approved? We do, constantly. And apparently so do a lot of people on Reddit. Crappy Design and Design Fails are two subreddits that are chock full of hideous, offensive, and awkward designs that range from print to architecture. They might make you cringe, but at least you'll feel something.

While we don't think it's cool to revel in the pain of others, these fails and muck-ups are mild enough for us to laugh at. From spelling errors to crappy design choices, these screw-ups have only caused minor inconveniences and (probably) just a bit of mild embarrassment. So you can push your guilt aside and scroll away gleefully. 

It's easy to scroll through a listicle or your feed without really stopping. Most images we see are pretty easy to absorb. That is not the case for the pictures in this gallery. This gallery is filled with design fails, cursed images, and all-around bizarre crap that makes us stop for a second and think. Which we honestly appreciate these days.

We get that sometimes mistakes get made. Even very embarrassing mistakes where people laugh at you for years. That's just a normal part of life. 

Where we draw this line of empathy, however, is when brands f*ck up so royally that one can't help but do a double-take. If you're still not on our side here, just think about how each of these designs likely had to go through multiple levels of editor-approval before being printed! Yikes...

Designing something for a product is apparently really hard - that, or the people making this stuff were incredibly overworked or just straight up clueless. Either way, the marketing teams hardcore need to step up their game. 

But hey, at least these fail-filled pics give us a decent amount of entertainment, right?

We love laughing at cringey design fails, but some of these are so wild we can't help but assume that people lost their jobs over them. From extreme (and accidental) sexual innuendoto terrible word placement, these fails are pretty much guaranteed to get a reaction out of you. And might even pique your curiosity.

Elon Musk just unveiled his plans for what he calls the "Cybertruck" last night and its boxy, angular appearance looks incredibly ridiculous, to be blunt. In case you're actually interested in buying the base model (we don't know why you would be), the thing will cost $39,000 and will likely be available around late 2021.

The best part of last night's reveal was when Musk invited his chief of design to throw a steel ball at the truck's window in order to test its durability, which in turn smashed said window.

Scroll down for the internet's best reaction memes to the angular beast!

The following designs are what happens when you try to cram in a whole lot of development into a small urban space. We like to think we could've designed any of these things better than how they turned out, because man, y'all had one job and clearly failed at it miserably.

The following pics are subtly cringey enough to make you both facepalm and feel slightly uncomfortable. Seriously, these people had one job and they totally f*cked it up! We could've done these jobs better!

We have a question: who designed this stuff? And perhaps more importantly, who was the last person to sign off on it??

How did no one notice these very obvious design flaws??

Whoever designed these things should probably think deeply about what they've done and then never do that thing again.

Looking at these terrible cakes will have you wondering if the decorators were all incredibly stupid, or if they just wanted to go on a little trollin' spree.