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Silly design prompts I wrote for bored people

Here’s some fun things to spark some creativity during the holidays. Enjoy!

I didn’t use AI to write these. I don’t care if you use AI. I’m not the boss of you.

Also, feel free to add your own silly ones.

  1. Prompt 01

    Design a brand identity system for Tyler, the Creator’s lacrosse team.

    • Logo
    • Name of the team
    • Visuals
    • Uniforms
    Tyler, the Creator on stage in a yellow suit, blond bob wig and dark sunglasses, holding a microphone in front of a silver curtain
  2. Prompt 02

    Build a design system inspired by this song:

    Ren & Prof, “Pain Salesman”

    A musician in a hospital gown playing an acoustic guitar in a wheelchair, alone in a bare concrete room lit by two lamps
  3. Prompt 03

    Design billboard images, posters and marketing collateral inspired by Prada’s most recent campaign.

  4. Prompt 04

    Create a motion design inspired by Elizabeth Holmes’s weird dancing to Lil Wayne.

    A woman with a slicked-back blond bun, in a black puffer vest over a white shirt, smirking
  5. Prompt 05

    Create a chaotic diagram explaining the different types of design jobs that exist.

  6. Prompt 06

    Pretend you are Zuckerberg’s personal stylist. Convince people he didn’t just hatch out of a lizard egg.

  7. Prompt 07

    Pretend indie sleaze is a design agency and create a website that communicates that.

    Bonus points if you include the Misshapes (not the song by Pulp).

    Two flash photos of a 2000s downtown party crowd in black skinny jeans and band tees: friends sitting with a dachshund, and friends on a rooftop holding someone upside down
  8. Prompt 08

    Design a slide deck and accurately explain MSCHF.

    MSCHF logos and its triple exclamation mark symbol scattered in red, yellow, black and white on a dark background
  9. Prompt 09

    Rebrand Y Combinator for finance bros.

  10. Prompt 10

    Using sarcasm, design a dating guide on how to date one of the following:

    • Software engineers from Facebook
    • Quant dudes
    • Effective altruists