So, Nanyang Technological University organised a design competition for their new matriculation card and the student body has been given until Nov. 7, 2016, to vote for the one they liked best.

Out of 500 entries, three were shortlisted for the vote:

And this is when things started to go the way of the US presidential election: People were refraining from voting because these are not real choices.

Better still: Mirroring the events currently unfolding in the US as Clinton and Trump duke it out, the parodying proper began.

Unhappy with how and why the three shortlisted designs were chosen, students organised themselves (like real students in tertiary education should, where they rally against injustice and totalitarian regimes) and came up with worse ones to highlight the plight and the abysmal state of affairs.

Here are the worst (or best, depending on how you see it) designs from the NTU card design competition: what could have been Facebook page:

What better way to make a point than make the symbol of injustice into a matric card?

How about combining the best elements of the three shortlisted entries?

Or repeat the logo and name of the institution twice because they look so good?

Or make your own fan art?

This is the legend:

This is morbid but it shouts, "Death to design competition, in general":

K:

Look at this photograph. Every time I do it makes me laugh:

Look at this look at this photograph. Every time I do it makes me laugh:

This is probably an inside joke (Ace Attorney, in fact):

Overwatch:

Thug life:

MS Paint:

This looks familiar and bears an uncanny resemblance but should be original idea:

Familiar too:

Kekekekekeke:

So great:

Yes:

Is this the real life

Can still see Harambe:

The real artist:

Make NTU great again:

Still better than shortlisted designs:

Respire:

Sweet lord mama:

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NTU shortlists 3 entries for matric card design competition. Students say ‘Nope’

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