Okay, before the break, a warning that this post may not be entirely work safe.  Or really, safe for you sanity.

Don’t get me wrong, some of these are completely fantastic, others.. well not so much.  Many of these will have you questioning humanity, but the others really are great designs.  Artists and art lovers do want to express themselves, and while oftentimes the results can really be incredible at others, they can be downright insane.

Below, some of the questionable and some of the awesome (really an interesting mix, at most).

Artists and designers have a way of making their point well known at times.  In response to the BP Gulf disaster, contests are being run to redesign their logo into something more fitting for their new public persona.  At times the new logos are rather fitting, but through art they are telling a lot more about the overall perception of the company that paint some interesting pictures.

It’s hard to imagine that BP will be able to really recover from this, and between the outrage at the company and the monetary damage they are taking, they may need some re-branding soon so maybe they should use of these entries. (Warning: A ton of images below)

Here are some entries from a contest run by the pros over at LogoMyWay:

For more, Check out the rest!

Here are some from a contest run by Greenpeace:

For more, check out the Flickr photo pool.

Artist’s Rendition 

Like many other web types, I got my start using Yahoo! Geo-Cities (now sadly, gone).  With geo-cities there were certain design rules that you had to follow.

Comic Sans Content was king there, it’s just that the content was 99% fan fiction.  Yet, since the unfortunate, sad, shutdown of Geo-Cities, the web hasn’t been the same. 

Here are the skills and tips for those who design the Geo-Cities way (illustrated above):

• Make sure that you only use the king of typefaces: Comic Sans
• Center Everything
• Do NOT use div, tables, anything. The only allowable use is the header.
• Animated backgrounds are a much.  Sparkles are like hugs to your users.  Who doesn’t like hugs?
• Misspellings are a-ok!  After all- you have a website.  You can’t be bothered to check everything.
• Links must be random, half of which were accidental. 
• Text much either be all lowercase and h1 OR h6.  Or all caps, all the time.  It’s proving your passion for your fan fiction.
• Never paginate.  Have everything on one page, if it takes someone a day and a half to scroll halfway down- you got it!

With this, you can take back your l33t skills and design like the cool kids*.

*Please, please for the love of god- don’t do that.