Design Mugs

"I have a couple of other projects I'm excited about."

'Detroit will try anything to become profitable again.'

'Hi, I'm a blueprint.'

'And here's our new and improved version.'

"It's just the architect's model, but I'm very excited."

'The client's not too happy with the way I interpreted the brief.'

'What happened between design and development?'

'Ok everyone, we want fresh ideas. There's no point in reinventing the...the...errmm...'

'Smith, we need more creativity. You have to learn to think outside the box.'

"And nobody noticed the crease in the blueprint?"

'It's a new design to save water.'

'I could be wrong, but I don't think that was supposed to be in the design. That's a coffee stain.'

'Ok, you invented the wheel, but what have you done for me lately?'

"Millimetres or centimetres? Check the plan."

When Engineers Crack.

'This building is designed so that every employee will have a view.'

'On a clear day you can see the plush neo-classical offices of the bastards who designed these monstrosities.'

Copycats

Advertising Agency - "...Fooling some of the people all of the time is damn hard work."

'I don't think that blob was an unusual roof design, but a coffee stain.'

'Okay, the motorized rocking chair could use an emergency off switch.'

Man at council planning offices can't get through door due to position of steps.

'So we're all agreed on this final design?'

'We're going to need more money just to complete the model.'

To save space, we eliminated hallways and doors, by adding catwalk and ladders.

'Is it true the building's sinking?'

"I believe it took a team of twenty five, working six months at a cost of �250, 000 to come up with that."

'C'mon get it straight.'

"Are we overthinking this?"

'Your resume is certainly memorable. You used a different font for every other word you wrote.'

'The wheel was great, but what have you done for me lately?'

"When you're finished here, Spencer, we'll need you on the bridge-to-nowhere project."

"I still think a simple pedestrian mall would have sufficed."

"Very good, John, but I asked you to design a new wind turbine."

'...need to design something to bridge the generation gap.'