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A Visual Catalog of Awful Textile Designs for Public Transportation

Julien Potart's idontgiveaseat

By Rain Noe - May 30

in Urbanism | Visual Communication

Documentary director Julien Potart has a strange side hobby: Documenting the visually awful textile designs seen on public transport around the world.

Potart's incredibly well-populated Instagram account, idontgiveaseat, shows the offensive fabrics and lists their provenance.

As for why the patterns are so consistently awful, the commonly-accepted explanation is that, as with casino carpets, they're primarily designed to hide stains. For public transportation, I'd guess there's an additional goal of busying the visuals so that a forgotten object breaking up the pattern might draw attention, but I have no proof.

Plenty more to see here. I feel awful that somewhere, people are hired to design these.

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