UMO - 5th Boycott Bad Design Contest'09

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.

Boycott Bad-Design Contest'09 Winners

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.

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'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 today’s 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. It’s 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, it’s time we thought about how our creations, the products and services we create and we use impact our world.

Boycott Bad-Design Contest'09 Entries Preview

In daily life it is need to everyone to protect our self from the attack of mosquito. We know that it is worked based on power. If the power is gone, it’s won’t work. In India 70% of the people are living in rural areas. In that areas power is not available all the times. In most cases in rural areas power cut is happening at night times. It is the time for attacking the mosquito. While people are using the mosquito repellent if the power is cut, automatically mosquito will attack. Due to this peoples are suffering from illnesses, like dengue, malaria, typhoid.To avoid this type of problems it is better to modify in other way.

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A transformer without its safety panel......and there r no measures to fix it!

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2011 - 01.22.

A Tape recorder in which if u press the forward button it actually rewinds!!

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2011 - 01.22.

An electric bore well with its switch box open which is dangerous!

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2011 - 01.22.

The streets are designed in which people directly cross the roads without any zebra crossing which creates lots of jam.

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2011 - 01.22.

The latest version of the ipod nano released just days ago. It has a 1.5 inch touch screen. Touch screens of such small size are often irritating and useless.Moving your fingersover small icons make you select the wrong option when you actually want to select something else.

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2011 - 01.22.

In INDIA we find roads of these kind very commonly.
The reasons for these are:

1. using poor quality materials,
2. not following the i.s codes,
3. no proper banking angle for making the water flowing,

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2011 - 01.22.

From a long time onwards we are using pencils but we can't write with short pencils.Thats why we waste the short pencils.

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2011 - 01.22.