Education plays a vital role in the development of an active citizenry of a nation. A well educated population is able to take charge of the many issues facing society, including social problems and political decisions, rather than sitting by the sidelines and allowing someone else to do deciding for them.
Design in essence is a message, it is a medium through which designers and businesses communicate how a new product and service will make our lives both easier and exciting. We the design community should take the ownership of educating the users and consumers of products and services through better design. So much so that peripherals like communication design and information design around these products and services gets quite crucial in informing and educating users about them.
UMO encourages all enthusiasts to highlight adverse effects of bad information design every where around us. Please bring in real life issues ranging from a piece of ticket (any ticket), forms/e-forms to labels & product packaging, medicine packaging/ labels, product manuals, movie posters, government notices, news papers, magazines, information systems, maps, signage, webpages and many others that we encounter in our day to day use.
The following 6 entries were chosen as the best submissions ( Rs. 5000/- each ) for the "Boycott Bad-Design Contest'11"
The following 4 entries were chosen as the most popular entries for the "Boycott Bad-Design Contest'11"
Team-UMO duly acknowledges it's gratitude towards all the participants.
Although helmet is a safety device, people generally don’t use it, as it’s uncomfortable to wear, and blocks the side view of the rider, which also is inconvenient.
All the news channels have their unique website design and to attract more and more users they keep adding new elements in their website.
The rear view mirror of Pulsar (two wheeler) is positioned on the bike in such a way, that when the rider is driving, his arm covers half of the mirror.
Plastic water bottles produce up to 1.5 million tons of waste annually. If each bottle was encased in yet another plastic capsule, like this one, the number would be twice as large.
The Japanese buy 130 million of these ‘Clear Umbrellas’ annually, making Japan the world’s top consumer of umbrellas.
A cell phone is made up of plastic, metal, and various other chemicals, which are very difficult to recycle.
There is a dire need for design awareness among corporate banking bodies, which would aid an environmental friendly society.