Mexican Design

For a while, I’ve been wanting to start posting about design here in Mexico. On the whole, the design here is completely terrible. There are a few good designs – logos, signage – but those are usually for large organizations. You can pretty much count on anything designed for a small company, will be bad. I often find myself in situations where I am looking at something and I have no idea what it’s for.

So, my first in a series…

Okay, when I saw this in a local mall, I had no idea what this was for. And, now that I’ve had to look at it more closely, I still don’t know what’s going on. The hierarchy is totally screwed up – the most prominent information are the dates – so, I know when it’s happening. And, beside the dates are the giant logos, and, because I saw this at Triangulo, a mall, I can deduce that those are the locations, which is also supported by the extremely tiny text, which I can see by squinting, indicating the address for two of the locations.

But still, what’s going on? Is this girl at these locations? Is she famous? Will Cats, the musical, be performed? Is she in Cats?

Or, are people just going to get together and scribble pink lines on pictures?

Please, designers, come to Mexico and save their designs from people who learned how to design using Microsoft Word.

Please.