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The Weekly Design Roast, #24
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This bar clamp was designed into a "clever" bookshelf. The serrated edges of the bar will of course mar the bottom of your books; you'll get a nice divot in the cover of the outermost book; and who doesn't want to crank/uncrank a handle every time they remove/replace a book? (Not to mention, if you want to add a book that's more than double the width of the distance from the bar to the wall, you'll have to hold the book in place while you screw the clamp down.)
"Right over the area where you bend over to retrieve books, we placed a staggered series of sharp edges. In an effort to be inclusive, we want people of all heights to have the opportunity to catch their heads on the corners."
True story: This 5 1/4-quart Le Creuset Cast-Iron Star Wars Han Solo Carbonite Signature Roaster costs $450. I think that's more than the actual bounty they paid Boba Fett to capture Han.
"By making the horizontal bars protrude outwards as they go down, we hope to discourage short people from reaching the good stuff at the top."
True story: This self-adhesive plastic film depicting a photorealistic version of pine grain costs $42 to cover a 24" x 48" area. At my local home center, you can buy the same amount of actual pine (3/4" thick) for about 16 bucks, and not have to add plastic and adhesive chemicals to your project.
"As per law, we made sure one of the bathroom sinks was at wheelchair height. (There's nothing in the law about needing room under the sink to actually fit a wheelchair user's legs, so we stuck with our fun yellow barrel concept throughout.)"
When you didn't start your Transportation Design project until the last minute so you repurpose a model from last semester's Footwear Design class.
"We designed our full-length dressing room mirrors so that people can only see three sections of their body, and what those sections are, varies according to the person's height. Fun!"
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"I wanted a more new-school way to get my fingers pinched in a door."
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And the end grain on the bookshelf brackets is going to snap right off the first time the clamp is adjusted.
First let me say that I love these, but I find the website design behind this hugely ironic. Lets decompose the URL:
"https://www.core77.com/posts/91157/The-Weekly-Design-Roast-24"
Naively one would think that replacing "The-Weekly-Design-Roast-24" with "The-Weekly-Design-Roast-23" would get you.. the 23rd roast. Oddly no, what we get is (once again) the 24th roast. In fact all that we really need to get to this page is the "https://www.core77.com/posts/91157" part and the "The-Weekly-Design-Roast-24" bit is entirely superfluous even though its the primary human usable part (and yes I know why its there.. thanks websearch engines).
This fact has been bothering me for quite some time, anyway.. carry on with the good work.
I can also offer some defence to the door. I think it would make a very nice pocket door with a servo attached. because of the ballance and using gravity to complete the move I think (I am not an engineer) this would be easier on a servo then your traditional sliding door. I saw once the amount of engineering that goes into those sliding windows for fast food shops. there is only one company that makes them and the hardware for it to handle the the repetitive sliding wear and tear is insane. That could offer a more durable and cost effective option.
That door. And the cat lost its head. Who knew?
Han Solo roaster is pretty nice - quite pricey but still cheaper than apple's monitor stand and more useful. And the low sink - cool for kids
The clamp book shelf will not work, one reason is, when you loosen the clamp all the books will want to fall. You need three hands.
I could see the pants clothing rack if you were designing a display rack and not a rack for customers to pull stuff off of.. and it would be a bad rack for that anyway. One store I went to had about 20 styles of pants hung on the wall for you to look at then you picked the style and ask the salesperson to find your size. Having customers mess up your displays makes sales people cringe.
OMG can't believe anyone's actually trying to defend any of these. I mean as thought experiments, love the trap-door, but IRL? NO
The clamp shelf idea could be saved if they used a pipe-style clamp, though honestly, the teeth on the bar they used could hardly be called "serrated" and would likely not harm any books unless they were particularly heavy. Those clamps are designed to quickly slide when not occupied, so cranking would be minimal. As for divots, they should have added small flat pieces of wood at the contact point. That's how damage to wood is prevented under it's original use.