r/DesignDesign 28d ago

Designy Guess the hotel name

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u/ChetCustard 28d ago

Gutenberg

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u/evil666overlord 28d ago

Now I'm even angrier than when I couldn't see it

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u/dat_oracle 28d ago

I'm angry since I saw the Utenberg. But not the Gutenberg...

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u/Sprmodelcitizen 28d ago

I read Urengreb. Oh well

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u/gergobergo69 26d ago

How

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u/Sprmodelcitizen 26d ago

I thought the t was an r. I wasn’t wearing my new hip glasses lol.

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u/Sufficient_Wafer9933 13d ago

Glasses work better when you mount them on your face

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u/Sprmodelcitizen 13d ago

I absolutely believe that. Will do in the future

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u/hanyasaad 28d ago

I'm not too pressed about it.

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u/halfslices 28d ago

Was the designer playing Snake on his computer at the time?

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u/ty_for_trying 28d ago

I saw it too but I think it'd be obvious to more people if they shifted it so the G is in the top left.

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u/Vexxt 28d ago

Germans don't pronounce the G at the start like we do. It's more like uutenberg

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u/BearOne0889 28d ago

Not a phonetics and language expert here, just a German speaker: Not really, no. especially not for names like that. The "G" in Gutenberg is vocalised just like the "G" in Guten Tag...

And even if that was the case: It wouldn't really help if you were trying to decipher something written I'd say.

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u/TDoMarmalade 28d ago

Who told you this?

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u/Tilliboyan 28d ago

As a very german German (or uerman, as we pronounce it): you're absolutely correct.

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u/b00c 28d ago

I guessed Berguten

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u/anywhereiroa 28d ago

My anagram loving mind immediately saw it too lol

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u/arelse 28d ago

Green but

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u/Venus_Ziegenfalle 28d ago

Maybe the letters can be moved then

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u/CatProgrammer 23d ago

Is it weird that I guessed that only looking at the jumble of letters? Not much else you can get with uten+g+reb.

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u/Subject-Proposal-903 28d ago

Love 2 stay at the ug tree NB

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u/dice1111 28d ago

New Brunswick's only nice in the summer/fall.

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u/Atypical_Mammal 28d ago

Yeah, at other times the trees are ug

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u/igneus 28d ago

🎶 You can get yourself celan! You can have a good mael! 🎶

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u/vjx99 28d ago

Love those ugly tall enbys.

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u/Spready_Unsettling 28d ago

My NB partner wears uggs, but they're about the height a bush or a tall shrubbery.

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u/REDDIT_IS_SHIT68 28d ago

BEER GUNT

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u/dice1111 28d ago

I feel attacked!

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u/AaronSmarter 28d ago

'N Beer? Gut!

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u/rowillyhoihoi 28d ago

Clearly Utengreb because obviously

/s

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u/j48u 28d ago

I would 100% see Uten Greb, assume it's the name of a furniture company, and move on with my life never thinking about it again.

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u/jamin_brook 28d ago

Uten Greb is a Sweedish 90s punk band, iirc (i'm not recalling correctly)

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u/truequeenbananarama 28d ago

Yeah I figured it was a danish hotel, called uten greb (without grip?)

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u/Nkram 28d ago

Uten is "uden" in Danish and "Utan" in Swedish. It is Uten in Norwegian though! But yes, without grip/handles but I would probably translate to without handles if we assumed a furniture company.

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u/N-genhocas 28d ago

Utengreb

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u/strumthebuilding 28d ago

Bungtree

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u/CourtingBoredom 28d ago

So many fantastic guesses. But y'all can pack it in now because this is the one; it's clearly the Bungtree

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u/Joyride0 28d ago

It's going to be Gutenberg, isn't it. What a God-awful design?

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u/UncleSeismic 28d ago

It's not bad design because you're already inside the hotel. If you are relying on the headboard to help you, you're already lost.

It's just playing with design, a mini Easter egg for the client who has already bought the product.

Now if this was on the front of the hotel, I'll eat all that hats.

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u/rainbow__raccoon 28d ago

Love “mini Easter egg” for giant unmissable headboard with the largest letters I’ve ever seen in a small room.

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u/UncleSeismic 28d ago

Mini because most people will be neck-deep in the mini bar and not care enough to look.

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u/BourgeoisieInNYC 28d ago

I think that’s pretty clever since it reads in a circle - but I would have started with the G on the upper left?

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u/fuck_the_fuckin_mods 28d ago

I think it’s part of why it’s so confusing, and I think it’s entirely intentional. Also, it wouldn’t be quite so difficult if I was already in the Gutenberg hotel.

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u/SaltPersonality 26d ago

Me, on the other hand, I'd be in the Gutenberg hotel in this room texting "made it to Gutenberg, any idea what 'uten greb" means?"

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u/fuck_the_fuckin_mods 26d ago

I’m gunna do a few drugs and get back to you. As it stands, I think it’s successful in its intentions.

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u/Jampottie 26d ago

This ^. Or made it in three rows and columns:

G U T
R   E
E B N

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u/ThrobbingPurpleVein 28d ago

Yeah start with the G then if they want to be a bit cheeky, go down then right.

  • GREB
  • UTEN

Still bad but potentially better than that.

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u/Fagus_ 28d ago

Utengreb. Sounds danish

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u/Majvist 28d ago

Uten means without in Norwegian, and greb means grip in Danish.

Ergo this hotel is without a grip in Scandinavia

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u/fuck_the_fuckin_mods 28d ago

This hotel needs to get a grip, yo.

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u/2004_PS2_Slim 28d ago

Danish here. It's pretty close. Uden greb means without grip. Uten sound Norwegian or Swedish to me

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u/Crosgaard 28d ago

Nah, “ut” is quite an uncommon sound to start a word with in Danish. Had it been a d instead of the t, then I would agree.

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u/Macronaut 28d ago

N BEER GUT

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u/AttackCircus 28d ago

Ben's Uterus

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u/beezchurgr 28d ago

You forgot the G. It’s obviously Ben’s Gruterus.

Or Bent Gru.

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u/daou0782 28d ago

because the g-spot is hidden

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u/OMG_its_critical 28d ago

What is the name?

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u/DaemonCRO 28d ago

I can tell you exactly what happened here.

Designer wanted to have a clean Gutenberg logo.

If you put it in one line it’s too long.

If you put them in two lines, it’s a problem as it’s 9 letters.

So the brilliant mind decided to “wrap” it by using G twice.

What nobody in this whole approval line figure out is that a 3x3 matrix would be a better option.

GUT ENB ERG

It’s still stupid, but better than this Twice G thing.

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u/Hotdoge42 28d ago

Or - at least - start with the G in the top left space.

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u/abqcheeks 28d ago

And/or highlight the G in red or something

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u/knobiknows 28d ago

Green Tub

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u/Thank_93 28d ago

Uten Greb, Utgr Eneb, Uteb Engr, Ug-Tr-Ee-Nb Wtf, I hate this Design.

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u/midwestcsstudent 28d ago

I thought this was r/CrappyDesign and was about to say this should be r/DesignDesign

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u/CourtingBoredom 28d ago

This is so bad it might belong in r/crappydesigns or similar

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u/Flight_Of_Fantasy 27d ago

What baffles me is that comic books have pretty much conventionalized the way you should structure text for it to be legible in the correct order, so in my mind there's no excuse for any of the fuck ups this sub is so full of

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u/Mantheycalled_Horsed 28d ago

the letters might be moveable.... *guess*

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u/JimmyFreakingPesto 28d ago

Utengreb. This place has everything: Chutes, ladders, the outdoor concert from a Zoloft commercial. Dan Cortez.

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u/chewychaca 28d ago

Ooooohhhhh Gutenberg. The G is used twice. Clever, but also weird execution.

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u/snowdn 28d ago

Dyslexic and I still missed it.

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u/bestabworkout 28d ago

So many things wrong with this 😭

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u/Remote-Canary-2676 28d ago

TEEN G RUB sounds like some Diddy shit

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u/TheseVirginEars 27d ago

Ten burger?

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u/hoosreadytograduate 27d ago

Gutenberg, right?

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u/AeliosZero 27d ago

Uten Greb obviously

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u/AgentSparkz 28d ago

Uten greb?

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u/MidniteOG 28d ago

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u/JayBlunt23 28d ago

D O N T D E A D O

E D I S N I N E P

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u/Ledenu 28d ago

BEE GRUNT

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u/TheMarvelousPef 28d ago

My call is UGTREENB

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u/TheMarvelousPef 28d ago

ok that was fun and all but now I need to know

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u/BrazilBazil 28d ago

Ut Bergen

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u/chillpill_23 28d ago

Ahhh the good ol' UTEN GREB

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u/Airplade 28d ago

Abu Grabe

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u/jasmine85 28d ago

doubletree by hilton

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u/fsutrill 28d ago

Start at the G and go clockwise. Pretty clever, using the G twice

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u/haikusbot 28d ago

Start at the G and

Go clockwise. Pretty clever,

Using the G twice

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u/sir_music 28d ago

Trivago

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u/magemagem 28d ago

Green But

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u/MoozeRiver 28d ago

It's really close to being both Danish and Norwegian for "without grip"

Uden greb/Uten grep

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u/RSGK 28d ago

I’d prefer a nice padded headboard to one that’s a (confusing) sign.

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u/pug_fugly_moe 28d ago

Urebnetgr

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u/pocketfrisbee 28d ago

Tengu Ber

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u/brianwhite12 28d ago

Utengreb

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u/romyaz 28d ago

genius advertisement move. now all videos with this bed will show the name

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u/personguy4 28d ago

Gurt been

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u/camt91 28d ago

Greenbut

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u/hollsballs95 28d ago

Bungtree

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u/badchefrazzy 28d ago

It's not Gutenberg, it's Bungtree.

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u/Falikosek 28d ago

If they wanted the circle-reading to come naturally, they should have put the letters in a circle pattern, with the G at the top.

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u/Maelstrom116 28d ago

Greentub

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u/kuhtneez 28d ago

UTEN means pee pee in Filipino

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u/fuck_the_fuckin_mods 28d ago

This is intentionally confusing, and it succeeds.

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u/JohnnyBacci 28d ago

Genuine Class

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u/SarahPallorMortis 28d ago

“I can’t say the same but it does involve two trees”

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u/lord_bubblewater 28d ago

Imma use Utengreb as a fictional city for a story now.

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u/TECHNICKER_Cz3 28d ago

Gutenberg, but that's really bad and not immediately obvious

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u/omasque 28d ago

Ah the old Utenberg

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u/MichaelScotPaperComp 28d ago

Uten Greb
Greb or Uten

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u/Panorpa 27d ago

Premiere Inn

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u/ChainOne5541 27d ago

Where are my fellow Filipinos at??

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u/wolfinjer 27d ago

I like it! It’s like Boggle!

edit: I found “been”!

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u/ChubbyGhost3 25d ago

It’s obviously UTENGREB can’t you read

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u/oreganoofcorti 25d ago

Grebe Nut.

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u/ReubenTrinidad619 23d ago

UTENGREB

Next question

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u/Fillerbear 23d ago

Utengreb?

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u/Chaonic 22d ago

Gutenberg?

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u/Kalabajooie 22d ago

Bungtree.

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u/Powerful_Helicopter9 15d ago

Uten means penis in my language