No Excuse for Poor Design

I recently read a friends' recent blog post where he decided to show off some of his "artwork". I noticed a few design oversights and thought I would respond to them here at BrainMatters. I have tried to review this as objectively as possible, and have even used some handy critique stickers courtesy of design-police.org to help my points along. To see a larger version of this "book" click on the images.

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I think the critique stickers speak for themselves. I was running out of space for all of the errors I would have liked to point out. But enough of the typography and general design issues, let's talk about the actual artwork.

1. Heart - Uninspired design, copied from centuries of other anatomically inaccurate artists vying for a shot at a sweet deal from Hallmark or any other second hand greeting card vendor. This rendition is really no better than what could be accomplished by a kindergarten student with ADD sitting in the sandbox with a load in his Garanimals.

2. Brang - I am not even sure what a brang is. I have searched a few anatomy books and even Googled it. This site gave alternatives to this alien spelling, and the only word that was related to a body part (and not as an adjective) was listed at NUMBER 20! I will assume you meant brain. The picture however looks more like the item found towards the other end of the body, possibly where your head was when you created this horrible rendition.

3. Tung - Again, I am unfamiliar with the Urban Slang of today's youths, corrupted by spelling lessons from lolcats and unmotivated teachers who put too much reliance on computer spell check. This item looks more like the holy hand grenade sans the pin. Maybeez it mite blowed up ur crap dezinez.

4. Funnbone - Not sure what kind of back alley hack performed the bris on this horror show.

5. Throt - Spellcheck is looking more and more acceptable. Unfortunately the model for this medical rendition, one Mr. Carl T. Suggins, died shortly after posing for this picture. A lifelong smoker, smokeless tobacco user and coal miner, Carl was diagnosed with "throt" cancer, and died after getting hit by a bus crossing the street on his way out of the medical clinic.

6. Blud - As I sit here shaking my head at the spelling of this final piece, I can't help but wonder why, of all the items to color dark on this veritable cornucopia of medical insight, the artist decided to make blood look just like a broken potato chip. Perhaps it was a parallel to the angst of the artist. Or maybe it was an analogy of the broken dreams and excessive grease on the hands of creativity. The lightly salted goodness inherent to the artistic community found only in the single serving vendor bags of life.

Or maybe not. All I know is, I think I need a snack.