Adventures in Bad Graphic Design: We Didn’t Expect This To Be A Series …

… but this ad in Citypaper was just too awesomely bad to ignore.

I’m not a trained graphic designer. I took a few design classes in college and if Temple had offered more, I probably would’ve explored that career path instead of journalism,  but since they didn’t, I didn’t. However, one of the things I know—both as someone with a teensy bit of design knowledge and a moderate level of common sense—is that if you’re going to Photoshop the head of a famous person—say, the President-elect of the United States of America—onto the body of non-famous person, you need to either: a) do it well enough that no one can tell or b) do it really, really badly on purpose so that we know you know it looks ridiculous.