67 Of The Greatest (Or Worst) Awful Taste But Great Execution Designs
I went to art school. I want you to know that up front. I sat through four years of critiques, color theory, and a professor who once made a guy cry over kerning. I have a degree — a real, expensive piece of paper — that qualifies me to tell you that everything you’re about to see is wrong.
And yet.
The designs below, courtesy of the @AwfulButGreat Twitter page, occupy a space my education never prepared me for.
These are not lazy failures. Lazy failures I could dismiss. These are meticulously crafted atrocities — pieces where someone with genuine, undeniable skill looked at an idea that should have been strangled in the sketchbook and said, “Yes. This one. This is worth 40 hours of my life.”
A toilet-shaped coffee mug, hand-thrown with perfect glazework. A crocheted suit that fits impeccably and should be illegal. Airbrushing so flawless it takes you a full three seconds to realize what you’re actually looking at — and by then it’s too late.
Every one of these makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up, and honestly? I can’t tell anymore if that’s revulsion or respect. My professors taught me that craft in service of a bad idea is a tragedy. They never mentioned it’s also kind of magnificent.
Somewhere, my degree is weeping. But it’s weeping at the skill.
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