35 Dumb, Misleading, Or Inappropriate Designs That Businesses Clearly Did Not Think Through At All

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1. This restaurant’s interior design that accidentally insults the food:

Restaurant interior with wall letters spelling "Real s**t food" due to overlapping design. Tables and chairs are set neatly

2. This confusing MEN’s bathroom sign:

Sign with decorative design reads: "Mens Washroom: Women, please do not go in here, this is the mens room, the ladies room is across the hall."

3. This sign that gives people mixed signals:

Sign showing a walking figure with text: "Walkers this way, please" in English and French underneath

4. This fire department’s sign that won’t help anyone be safer:

Jamesville Fire Department sign encourages chimney safety with "Check Your Chimney" and "Safety Clean" messages

5. This building’s really weird elevator button system:

Elevator control panel and sign indicating which button to press for floors 0-13. Emergency telephone button is also visible

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6. This business’s sign that was supposed to be read as “block”:

Sign on scaffolding reads "BLOCK" next to high-rise building images, located at Cambie St traffic lights

7. This bathroom sign that seems like some unsolvable riddle:

Bathroom door signs with geometric figures. Text below: "The WOM needs AN" and "The AN needs M."

8. These package labels that are setting people up for failure:

Eight cardboard boxes stacked on a counter with labels saying "INCORRECT WAY UP" and warning of potential damage if placed this way

9. This gardening nutrient bottle that looks more like a ketchup bottle:

A hand holds a 1-liter bottle of Substral Pomidoro plant fertilizer with tomato images on the label

10. This apartment complex’s confusing design for the number 2:

Sign with "102 Thimios" in bold, black text on a beige wall

11. This misleading hand sanitzer design:

Clear bottle labeled "Oralieve Dry Mouth Relief" held in hand, with "HAND SANITISER" mistakenly printed on the lid

12. This tool kit label design that doesn’t look like the world “tools”:

Toy workshop set packaging featuring tools for ages 3 and up

13. This home decor that says “beach”…kinda:

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14. This spelling mistake in a children’s learning game:

Wooden puzzle board with alphabet letters. Pieces for "T" and "Y" are missing. Images include tadpole, union, yawl, and zebra

15. This doctor office’s tiny, vague sign that doesn’t make it clear what kind of business they are:

The image shows a word "Blue" circled in blue paint on a brick building facade

16. This “magic of art” sign that looks more like “magic fart”:

Sign on brick wall reads "Magic of Art Tattoo & Permanent Make Up" with a graphic of a stylized face on the left

17. This odd logo that honestly compliments the name:

Sign for De Bussy Restaurant: family restaurant with banquet hall, permit room, and roof garden

18. This logo for a dentist’s office that doesn’t look like dentistry:

Illustration of a person administering the Heimlich maneuver on another person

19. This confusing logo at a chicken shop of a chicken holding a music note:

20. The wording of this logo for building erection:

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21. This movie theater logo that doesn’t look so much like a movie seat:

Dream Lounger sign with recliner chair graphic between the words

22. This sign with directions that couldn’t have been executed any worse:

Sign with the text: "PAPER TOWEL. WHITE CUSTOMERS. BROWN EMPLOYEES." with a small drawn face on the right

23. This shockingly explicit restaurant logo:

Sign for a restaurant called Luční bouda featuring an illustration of two deer with antlers on a crest. Website URL is also present

24. This off-putting logo for a bakery:

Bakery storefront window with a cartoon baker holding a steaming pie, and the text "Big Booty Bread Co." visible

25. This decorative sign that actually says “eat”:

Decorative metal and wood wall shelf with 4 hooks, designed with the word "EAT" and swirl accents, displayed on a store shelf

26. This hideous, unreadable daycare center sign:

A colorful mural reads "Barber's Hilltop Daycare" with various animal skin patterns and illustrations like a butterfly, bird, and ladybug

27. This traffic sign that looks like it’s telling people to follow others home:

A blue road sign reads: "Follow traffic rules. Someone is waiting at home for you. Obey traffic rules."

28. This logo that looks like a dog-human hybrid:

u/feetandballs / Providence Steam Rollers / Via reddit.com

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29. This logo for a singing tavern that looks like people being killed:

30. This double-sided exit sign:

Illuminated exit sign in a hallway with carpeted floor

31. This bathroom sign that desperately needs some rewording or punctuation:

A sign reads "Disabled Baby Change" with text in bold, purple and white letters on an orange, white, and green background

32. This sign that needs to be WAY bigger so people could see it before they make a mistake:

Hand washing station with a sign that reads, "This is not a urinal. Hand wash ONLY." Multiple soap dispensers and faucets are visible above a long sink

Sign on a metal surface reads, "This is not a urinal. Hand wash ONLY."

33. This business center’s logo that looks like someone sitting on the toilet:

34. This logo for coconut water that’s actually the chemical equation for dicarbon monoxide:

35. And finally, this sign that reads like it insults certain employees:

The image shows a wooden door with a sign that reads "TRASH EMPLOYEES ONLY"

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