Sterling Crispin
@sterlingcrispin
There’s a large category of things in the home that are transitory and forgotten by designers. Dish racks, the bathroom trash can, dust pans, short lived utilitarian things that just need to be cheap and good enough, so they end up abjectly ugly. But we face them daily, and they look back at us with their profane cheap plastic faces. I can’t stand this kind of thing. They form the bedrock of daily life and their cheap uncared for forms echo into everything else. Home Depot is like a graveyard of this kind of zombie object. You could easily make a mass manufactured cheap ceiling light that wasn’t gruesomely ugly, I guess Ikea is trying to do that, but it should be the default not the exception. We need to collectively reject the ugly mundane things and demand beauty
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Eric P. Rhodes
@epr
so true. i often think about Don Norman's book, The Design of Everyday Things every time i come across bad designs. though it's centered around usability, i think it effectively addresses a similar issue. the lack of care in the manufacturing of these designs (or objects) i.e. doors that signal to push, but you actually have to pull to open is a common one i see often.
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