Some ideas are better left as ideas. Whatever your mom, dear friend, or significant other says, that bag you saw the other day on Etsy that looks like you’re carrying a knife, is bad, a very bad idea.
There’s an online group called Awful Taste But Great Execution dedicated entirely to the gaudy, tacky, tasteless, overdone, plain trashy side of product design. But there’s one but. The execution may be, in fact, pretty alright. “For everything that displays quality craftsmanship in the least elegant way possible,” states the subreddit’s description. And 1.4 million members seem to be totally up for it.
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From painful-to-watch objects to questionable designs, these people should have put a break on their brainstorming, or put their efforts into something else. But hey, at least we have something to have a little cringe over! Psst! More daunting stuff awaits in part 1.
#1 Tree-Rex
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#2 Did A Double Take When I Saw This Rock In My Friend’s Yard. She Said It Came From The Tenants Before Her, But I Think It Is The Tenant
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#3 My Friend Made 3D Printed Arms For His Chickens
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If coming up with good ideas was simple, we’d have so many great solutions to existing problems and incredible products. But producing something both efficient, functional, and aesthetically pleasing (often, it should tick even more boxes, e.g. be sustainable) is not a walk in the park.
Think of how many companies are investing their time, effort, and resources, yet coming up with generic, repetitive, and plain bad ideas. It makes you wonder whether it’s the limit of the human mind that isn’t capable of producing something ground-breaking that often, or whether there’s something else to blame?
Well, the tricky question becomes even trickier when we try to determine what we call a “good idea” and a “bad” one. At that point, any inventor is dealing with the great inventor’s dilemma, which is that when you’re doing something new, you can’t tell the good ideas from the bad ones beforehand.
#4 I Want This Now
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#5 Hamburger Bed From 1972
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#6 Brasilian Ad For Condoms…
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In many cases, deciding on some ideas that initially seem great will make you miss truly good ones and opt for the very bad ones.
On the other hand, we know now that a good idea should have some distinct features before turning into a product. For example, it should solve a specific problem and work on a specific opportunity. Coming up with an idea for a reason is a good sign you’re on the right path, but you probably will need many more “ideas” before you can pick up the right ones to work on further.
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#7 Embroidery Toast
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#8 This Texan Sink
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#9 Chandelier Headlights
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#10 Why Buy Converses When You Can Just Paint Them On
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#11 Clipart, Paperclips On Paper, 2020
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#12 Does This Mask Belong Here
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#13 Really Tall Christmas Tree In Our Neighborhood…
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#14 A Bear Statue I Found In Denver Colorado, Yes It’s Looking Into The Building
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#15 Bath/Toilet Design
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#16 This Woodwork
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#17 Drove Nearly 2 Hours Out Of The Way On Our Road Trip To Get This Pic. Worth It
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#18 Batstache
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#19 A Sacred Candlestand
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#20 Yes, This Is A Spoon
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#21 Softest Pant
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#22 This Lamp In My Hotel Room
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#23 Adult Knit Onesie
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#24 It’s Stupid, But Kinda Sick Ngl
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#25 My Best Mate Made A [crappy] Cake For My Birthday
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#26 This Beard/Haircut
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#27 Bleeding Necklace
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#28 My Sister Made “Feet Loaf” For Halloween
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#29 These Coffee Mugs
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#30 Was Told To Post This Here
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#31 Admiral Ackbunny
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#32 I Have A Real Pizza Epoxy Doorstop
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#33 20 Foot Tall Graffiti Mural Of Kanye Kissing Himself
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#34 Apartment Hunting When, Pebble River
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#35 Onesie
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#36 The Leaning Tower Of Cheesa…
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#37 This Optical Illusion Haircut
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#38 The Sub Name Says It All
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#39 Just A Cake Covered In White Chocolate Teeth
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#40 Additional Hair
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#41 Special Effect Artist Creates Mask Of Himself
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#42 Three-Legged Table That My Boss Found And Put In My Office
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#43 Unsure If Comically Great Or Horrendously Absurd, But They’re Mine Now
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#44 Ashtray
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#45 Razor Blade Advertisement
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#46 I Found A Statue Of A Dog Doing Yoga At A Mall
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#47 Finally, A Top To Cover Those Distracting Shoulders Of Girls
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#48 Looks Better Than A Mask, And It Keeps Your Ears Toasty Too!
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#49 How To Get Killed By Police 101
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#50 If 13 Year Old Me Became An Interior Designer
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#51 Blobfish Supra
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#52 Low Rider Batmobile
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#53 Anti-Bill Gates/Covid Vaccine In Australia. Pretty Good Artwork, Though!
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#54 Who Says Crown Molding Is Overdone?
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#55 Ww2 Mickey Mouse Gas Mask Intended To Make The Mask Look Less Scary For Children
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#56 Someone Was Selling Dead Beetles Dressed Up As Jurassic Park Characters On Etsy
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#57 Teach A Man To Fish… Then Tattoo His Leg
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#58 Oh No Nicholas, What Is You Doing??
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#59 More Airflow = More Fast
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#60 This Curry Phonecase
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#61 Since Yall Enjoyed My Flea Bag Here’s More Work By The Same Artist
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#62 This Bathroom Covered In Carpet
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#63 I’m Curious As To How It Actually Tastes…
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#64 A Skeleton Arm Tattoo With The Wrong Anatomy
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#65 This Mural On The Side Of A Restaurant In Lithuania Depicting Donald Trump Kissing Vladimir Putin
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#66 The Taste Is Not That Awful, But It Fits Here
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#67 First Year In A New Neighborhood. We’ll See How This Goes
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#68 This Lenin Jesus And Mickey Statue
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#69 Kylie Jenner’s Birthday Party For Stormi
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#70 This Horrible Toilet-Seat…
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#71 I Guess They’d Rather Mop Than Vacuum
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#72 The Pattern Gave Him A Booty, So We Gave Him A Thong
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#73 Ice Cold Drip
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#74 This Loooong Furby Someone At My Work Made. It Even Has A “Spine” In It So It Can Sit Up And Stare At You… Always Watching… Waiting…
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#75 My Wife Saw This And Said It Would Fit Perfectly Here
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#76 The Technical Skill Is There…
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#77 It Wouldn’t Be Complete Without It
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#78 Never Get Caught In A Rainstorm Unprepared
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#79 It’s 2020, Why Not?
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#80 Strawberry Skull
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#81 Gamehair
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#82 Dr Phil’s Mansion
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#83 For All Those Times You Wanna Wear A Clog But Your Outfit Goes Better With Sandals
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#84 Yikes
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#85 Nyet
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#86 “Get Away From Her You B****!”
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#87 Crocs Campsite Classic Clog, These Were Actually Made
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#88 A Lot To Unpack Here
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#89 I Wonder What This Would Look Like Without Maintenance
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#90 This Hair Design
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#91 This Is How Olivier Is Served In Fashionable Restaurants In The Capital Today
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#92 My Old Phone Disassembled And Framed
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#93 This Can Of Boxer Shorts I Found In My Local Gift Shop
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#94 Just Finished Up A Few Custom Wooden Rings Using Dyed Maple Skateboard Veneer
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#95 Painting I Found In A Shop. Should Have Bought It
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#96 When You’re A [crap] Body Mechanic But An Awesome Roofer
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#97 New Kitchen Style
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#98 This Is Just Awful
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#99 Holy Ppe
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#100 Most Depressing Pinata Ever
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#101 This Is A Terrible Idea
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#102 Mike Wazowski
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#103 Cat Butthole Cookie Cutter. Might Taste Good Though
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#104 This Face Mask Makes Me Extremely Anxious
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#105 Doily Hubcaps
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#106 Does This Count?
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#107 Got This In The Mail Today
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#108 Remember That One Episode Of Winne The Pooh Where He Gets Stuck In A Hole And Rabbit Turns His Butt Into A Decoration? Well
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#109 So I Have These Two Doloreans…
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#110 What A Riggity Riggity Wreck Son!
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#111 Pretty Crappy Design For A Slide
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#112 This Hyperrealistic, 36-Inch Mcnugget Body Pillow From The Travis Scott X Mcdonald’s Collaboration. Costs USD90
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#113 Brick Car
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#114 Nice Paint Job On The Cabinets But Why Purple
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#115 This Car That’s Actually A Boat..?
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#116 Condom Corsage
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#117 Doritos Crusted Mountain Dew Cheesecake With Mountain Dew Jello Topping
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#118 Was Told To Post My Tramp Stamp For Tuesday
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#119 How To Spend Millions To Ruin The London Skyline
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#120 Sick Underglow
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#121 This Is Objectively The Best Tattoo
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#122 Connection Neck Hair To The Beard
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#123 Earrings Made From Raccoon Penis Bones…
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#124 J E E E E P
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#125 But Why Though?
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#126 Forget Roses…
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#127 Crocs With Socks Built Into Them
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#128 Too Permanent For My Taste
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#129 Cheese Crocs
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#130 Painting In The Art Commons Commemorating My College’s Bathroom
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#131 These Shoes Make Me Sad
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#132 This Kraken Hairdo
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#133 Apparently I Have Awful Taste Cause I Would Love To Own This
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#134 In The Dictionary Next To “Wasted Talent”
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#135 The Hearsche
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#136 This Tattoo Of Saweetie On A Fan’s Chest
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#137 This Damn Cake!
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#138 I Feel Like This Belongs Here
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#139 Our Bus Stop
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#140 A Cat With A Headpiece Made From Its Own Shed Hair
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#141 Sometimes Awful Taste May Taste Great?
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#142 Richard Nixon Fighting A Saber Tooth Tiger…
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#143 Advertisement For Imodium
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#144 Surf Rock
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#145 This Tattoo
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#146 This Impala On Craigslist With A “One Of A Kind Perpetual Paint Job”
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