Beauty in the Darkest of Places

There is particular type of design that has been tickling my fancy lately. I call it ugly design. Not bad design. Just ugly. Like your mum. The goal of ugly design is to appear amateurish and poor, but they succeed in what they need to do. I've noticed a boom in them as they are popular in the internet culture. It's just possible though that these basement dwellers have no artistic skills, but have some decent design sense.

 

 Smile!

Doesn’t this guy just bring a smile to your face? Doesn’t the face have a sort of cock sure look to it? If you answered yes, then it succeeds in what it was meant to do. And with the troll face, has come a flood of others

 

 Forever Alone

Rage Guy

These are hugely popular, and have become an internet fad. I think the ugly design plays to this, it allows anyone to join. You don’t have to be artistically talented, as the drawings are already ugly, but your final product will always have that same, repetitive, killer punch line.

However, before you start feeling good about your unfortunate looks, there is a limit to ugly design…. A limit that should never be crossed.

OH GOD NO!