How many times a day you've felt some things could just be "slightly" better than they are now?
It may be your wash-basin tap, that tries hard to impersonate gym equipment by being hard and clumsy when you are all sleepy in morning, or it could be your phone bill that poses more intellectual challenge than toughest of the cryptic-crosswords.
We live in a world that is a consequence of conscious or unconscious design decisions made by the manufacturers or designers of the various systems. Most of times these decisions are resultant of hasty time-lines, compromise on quality or just plain ignorance about 'you'- the one who is going to use them.
The UMO-Boycott Bad-Design Contest'09 was organized with the view of calling attention to the bad design in everyday things with the theme : So tweet earth - rethink, refresh and recycle ideas for a sustainable world.
The following ten entries were chosen as the best submissions ( Rs. 3000/- each ) for the "Boycott Bad-Design Contest'09"
Team-UMO duly acknowledges it's gratitude towards all the participants.
'ek chidiya, anek chidiyaN; dana chugne baith gayee thi .....' The song conjures up childhood imagery, memories of an entire generation that was still lucky to learn the lessons of life from Mother Nature. For all others who couldn't strike a chord yet, 'ek chidiya, anek chidiyaN' translates to 'a lovely bird and many such lovely birds....'. Those are the opening lines of a beautifully animated song that encouraged harmony and unity in diversity, the mottos that best describe India, through a delightful cameo from Nature.
Most of us used to take delight in watching birds paying us a visit in our very own habitats during our childhood, when todays cities were still attractive enough for nature to cast its beautiful spell with changing seasons, colors, flowers and more. However, all such pleasures of nature are strangers to our cities now. Its something that we have done ourselves, still doing, depriving our younger generations of all such pleasure.
The greater irony is, we seek solace in the virtual worlds. Our bird song comes from MP3s, our greenery in screensavers. And tweet on the web mimicking nature. As we use these products, as we live a synthetic life, we need to think, rethink how our life is affecting our world, our Nature. As creative people, its time we thought about how our creations, the products and services we create and we use impact our world.
Here a major disadvantage with microwave ovens is that we cannot cook all kinds
of food in it, there are some restrictions like we cannot boil eggs in the oven, if we try to do it, eggs totally gets smashed up and spreads on to the walls of it and not that easy to clean it up.
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Due to internal failures such as heavy loads, improper foundation, cracks are developed on the wall, and due to external agents such as rain, wind etc the wall has broken down.
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Here I have used the picture of Vaseline sunscreen although the problem I want to highlight is common for all the containers like this. Whenever we buy these creams initially we enjoy applying them but as the cream in the container reaches half or much lower we face a lot of problem in getting cream out of them.
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Here I have shown a very popular medicine to clear nose blockages. Initially these use to come in a glass bottle with dropper. Some time back the company introduced its new design which said now it’s a NASAL SPRAY, I have marked it in red colour also. Also its advertisement used to demonstrate the same. But my mom Is using this for a long time I never found its any use as a spray, she has to lie down on bed and use this the same way as she was using the dropper otrivin.
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Here I am showing the interior of Hyundai Santro. Although its provided with cup holders but I find them of no use. In first figure the two cup holders inner diameter is so small that if I keep a big glaas of a soft drink its base just fits in the cup holder and if a speed breaker or a braking is encountered it just fell down, also sometimes it just splits on to the sterio or the inner wires that are coming just below the sterio.
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Here I have shown an audio cassette in its cover, here most of people face problem that how to put back the cassette in its cover. In above two figures I have inserted the cassette into its cover in two different ways, once on left side once on right. Although in both the cases cassette fits in the cover very nicely but the cover doesn’t closes in the second figure.
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This is a picture of a wash basin tap. The day it was installed in our house I have wasted so much of water, the problem was that most of the tap opens ANTI-CLOCKWISE but here it was reverse (this use to open in CLOCK-WISE direction) so we use to get confused how to open it and sometimes to close the tap, I use to open it to full.
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This picture shows the hot water control knob on the bathroom sink in a fancy hotel. You can tell it's a fancy hotel because it has a marble sink and designer knobs. Unfortunately, the designer didn't have people try to turn the knobs with soap on their hands because the knobs are about as smooth as glass and almost impossible to turn. This is an example of something being designed a certain way because it looks good rather than because it works well.
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Bad Design Showcase
International Cartoon Showcase
All Bad Designs
All International Cartoons
1. (8180) New Ladies Jeans Design
2. (8103) Bike Choke in Hero Honda
3. (6391) Difficulty in cleaning the lid
4. (6227) Nail Cutter
5. (5891) There is nothing to hold
6. (5264) Mumbai Taxies
7. (4688) Usha Lexus Mixer Grinder Lid
8. (4537) Tuhin Paul, India
9. (4141) Care should be taken to use sta…
10. (4106) People carry heavy luggage
1. [9] (1) Mahmoud Sanati, Iran
2. [5] (9) Abani Kumar Rath,India
3. [5] (7) Senad Nadarevic, Cazin
4. [5] (6) Marcin Bondarowicz - Poland
5. [5] (6) Senad Nadarevic, Cazin
6. [5] (3) Michael Mayevsky ,Ukraine
7. [5] (3) Michael Mayevsky ,Ukraine
8. [5] (3) Michael Mayevsky ,Ukraine
9. [5] (3) Valluri Krishna Kishore, India
10. [5] (3) Miroslav Bozhkov, Bulgaria
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