Category Archives: worst design

you mean the box?

A blast from Bento: “Packaging designed in Australia…cutting edge.” Nice call. But, pot/kettle/black – his rangehood is hardly fresh-out-of-the-box.

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Outrage Sunday 81 wings of ascension

Please please please tell me this car with a shark hanging from the rear-view mirror and driven by a balding man with a brush moustache doesn’t have a rego that means pussy wagon. Please. The apogee of consumerism. Nothing makes … Continue reading

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Cott droop

“By my prescience I find my zenith doth depend upon a most auspicious star, whose influence if now I court not, but omit, my fortunes will ever after droop.” William Shakespeare, The Tempest. My sensibilities were shipwrecked by these scenes … Continue reading

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Let’s get Risible

I have lost my faith in Busselton graphic design.Totally. Opportunity for a good “foot man” or woman to move into town. By me for a change.

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Weekend Worstoff 176 hostage edition

Outrage here. I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but TLA is being held hostage in Rurotardia. I was wondering why no WW until I received a disturbing image of a blindfolded TLA holding a copy of today’s … Continue reading

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Outrage Sunday 17 Going

I was snooping and eavesdropping and generally minding my own business on Marine Parade yesterday morning until I was rudely interrupted by a contact, whom I will call Seattle Samantha. “Put this on that crappy blog you write for,” she … Continue reading

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Outrage Sunday 14 Valley of Death

Six hours getting on and off a bus in the Swan Valley yesterday for someone’s 50th: by the time it was 3.30pm and we were wrapping up at a brewery I was longing for a giant mariachi-playing dugong to fall … Continue reading

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jugs of cold water

We hadn’t heard from Cookster for a while, and I was guessing he was out of circulation this week due to post-Sexpo enervation, but he has popped up with a tale of two cities. The first is Albany: the rec … Continue reading

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fabric hardener

The first pic of the jumper around the pole was (still is) in Shenton Park. I stared at it for several minutes. Dadaist outrage? Witty visual pun? Drunken fumbling? Student prank? Manifestation of madness? I was reaching a tentative conclusion … Continue reading

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the terror and the pity

I salute vegan and Joanne: they took these images in the city. Vegan’s is at Aida restaurant in Northbridge; Joanne’s was at A&R. I glanced at them to confirm their worstness but could not gaze at them for too long. … Continue reading

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