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The Weekly Design Roast, #20

The finest of industrial design

By Rain Noe - October 11, 2019

in Weekly Design Roast

In order for this to be accurate to New York, the two potted plants in the middle should be smoking, dropping ashes on the painting below and annoying the plant above with their wafting fumes.

"I designed this for The Punisher's getaway cabin in the Adirondacks"

The purpose of cabinet doors is to either obscure contents from view or keep dust off of them. What is the purpose of these ropes?

The perfect desk design, for people who often put their dog on speakerphone.

You have to be a real a-hole to design One-Liner Furniture.

The perfect way to store magazines, that you never plan on accessing again.

"We pump oxygen into the bubble, to motivate people to buy some of this shit."

"No, it's a great concept. So when are you going to finish it?"

Ideal for people who like to wash two outfits at a time.

First of all, can you imagine actually lugging two of these down to the beach. Secondly, this combination non-hanging hammock and non-regulation soccer goal…actually won a design award. Yeah.

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John Dolittle

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I never know whether I read "the weekly design roast" or "currently crowdfunding" topics, the designs in both series are usually on similar level. And to be honest most of ms Alexa topics show even worse products.
I assume that many of these things are university projects, where people play with forms and try to create something different, some are just made for fun. The first thing with the ladders is just a silly decoration and I think that it will serve its purpose well, not everything needs to be super efficient, serious, made of natural eco materials, etc. These things have flows, sure, but to laugh at them is a little bit cringy.
The only funny thing is that today you are laughing at this peculiar way of storing magazines, when just a few months ago you were totally amazed by the way how Lagerfeld keeps his books, which is basically the same.

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  Meh... regardless, it's a roast...get over it. Keep 'em coming Rain!
  
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So many of these designs make me think that they must have financial security as well as friends that blindly tell them that "It is so cool" ~ "So edgy"

They are not ...

Keep bringing it Rain - Always enjoy these posts

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Daniel Erwin

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Bookshelf with bungees would be pretty useful when you've got a 1.5-2 year old running around pulling everything off of shelves. I ended up wrapping several bookshelves with a single strand of monofilament for this reason. But the bungee thing is way too permanent for this usecase.

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  And as a side point i bet the bungy would keep them more entertained then pulling things off of the shelf.
  
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Obviously, these designers never had cats. It's all fun and games until the cats get trapped within the cords and straps. Having said that, I imagine enlarging the NY Staircase Shelf would be perfect decor for lounging cats. I'd buy that!

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This is awesome

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Thom Edley

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If my neighbors didnt smoke on the fire escape they'd smoke inside. I'm all for smoking out on the fire escape.

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