Badly Designed Dublin: A collaboration between designist and Badly Made Books for Dublin Design Night 2018

designist are delighted to collaborate with sean o'sullivan from Badly Made Books on a very special project which will all come together on April 25th for dublin design night. In the meantime, we need your help! We are looking for submissions from you on the theme of Badly Designed Dublin, the winning entry wins a €150 voucher and their design on a special edition run of handmade notebooks.

Have you ever noticed a building, bollard, street sign or skyline and thought, 'that's a really bad design!'?  Sometimes the best way to illustrate the value of design is by looking at 'bad' design. If something irks us, or seems off, then there's probably a design reason for it. And so we see 'bad design' as being full of amazing potential to have conversations about design and make us think about how a design can be improved or re-worked to make it functional or more practical. There's also lots of 'bad design' that people still love because it has charm, history or an unintended function (we think of desire paths in our parks and green areas as a lovely example of this). Another example were the electrical boxes at College Green in the photo below which became known by Dubliners as 'mini-Stonehenge'.