More snarky comments about crappy design

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/07/19/more-snarky-comments-about-cra.html

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Keep your snark, this is genius:

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Something something persistence of memory?

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I admit, the description for this…thing…made me giggle pretty hard:

"I wanted the front end to look like a giant Cyclops grouper fish having sex with a hammerhead shark."
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To be honest, I would love to own that bed. It looks awesome.

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I wanted a chair that will soon be home to thousands of unremovable spiders.

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that one just made me want to know what they were actually thinking designing it. What’s the practical advantage of the giant toilet-seat windshield?

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Probably a case of function following form. Dang thing looks like the front end of the original BSG Cylons.

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If I was a billionaire my half bath would totally have that cylinder door thing. It would make the classic Star Trek beaming sound when it closed/opened too.

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Are those speakers?
I guess stereo separation is for the poors.

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i393404

That’s basically Luigi Colani’s truck from the late 1970ies.
I used to see one of those quite regularly on my commute 10 years ago or so.

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“Regular websites have RSS feeds for serially-published posts. I wanted to make a website that you actually have to remember to come back to once a week instead.”

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Looks familiar…

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Snark is a necessary part of a healthy breakfast.

So this bed for criminal oligarchs. Does that mean Donald Trump has one? Does it even come in gold?

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I’m gonna ReMix that bed so the entire side rail drops into the floor when I want to get in or out of bed. This will make me incredibly rich.

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The thing about that bed design - the limitations it introduces are entirely obvious and unavoidable, and anyone who buys it is willing to make those trade-offs and is getting exactly what they want. So where’s the design flaw, really?

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Re: Star Trek Toilet

“We subsidize the cost of your sleek, richly enameled water closet by utilizing the cheapest material toilet seat on the market.”

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image

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And doesn’t link to any but one of the previous posts in the series.

However, in that other “Weekly Design Roast”, number 5, i wanted to share:


because of the comment (from our own @bobtato, it seems)

I think you’re being unfair on the room divider though; it’s a good design for workplaces based on WWII Japanese POW camp cosplay, hence the “death march of rattan” theme

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