The Uncomfortable is a series of impractical household objects by Athens-based architect Katerina Kamprani. The infuriating works play off of common dishware, cutlery, and watering cans, making the task each is typically assigned either impossible or extremely difficult. Every object is created from the material it would be constructed from normally, making siamese wine glasses and linked ceramic mugs all the more humorous. Often before Kamprani creates the physical object, she will create a 3D model to test its shape. More
"Deliberately inconvenient" cutlery, wine glasses, brooms, and more.
Architect and graphic designer Katerina Kamprani has created a series of household items that are designed so horribly that make us appreciate good design a lot more. She calls this series "The Uncomfortable".
The Uncomfortable is a series of impractical household objects by Athens-based architect Katerina Kamprani. The infuriating works play off of common dishware, cutlery, and watering cans, making the task each is typically assigned either impossible or extremely difficult. Every object is created from the material it would be constructed from normally, making siamese wine glasses and linked ceramic mugs all the more humorous. Often before Kamprani creates the physical object, she will create a 3D model to test its shape. More
Don Norman first used the term “user-centered design,” sparking a revolution that’s more relevant than ever today. Here are three UX lessons we can learn from Don Norman.
"The Uncomfortable" is a series of impractical household objects by Athens-based architect Katerina Kamprani. The infuriating works play off of common dishware,
Do you ever feel like parts of your life were intentionally designed to go wrong? Fabian Bürgy knows your pain. He's a Swiss artist who lives in Bern. Bürgy takes ordinary objects and subjects them to a "slightly violent and disturbing process of transformation, misplacement and dysfunction of things." The results are exaggerated expressions of the frustration that we experience.Other sculptures by Bürgy are also striking. Here is the Metronome of Death, ticking aw...
Human progress and the insurmountable force of nature converge in Camille Kachani’s overgrown sculptures. The Lebanese-Brazilian artist (previously) is known for his furniture, tools, and other practical objects that are overrun with new plant growths and gnarly roots, rendering the seemingly functional items like stools, hammers, and books humorously impractical. Whether a text bursting with vegetation or dresser drawers housing young sprigs, Kachani’s works highlight the futile attempts humans undertake to control the environment. More
Artworks by Jaime Pitarch
We have accepted that these items and decorations have not once been clean for a moment
Architect and graphic designer Katerina Kamprani has created a series of household items that are designed so horribly that make us appreciate good design a lot more. She calls this series "The Uncomfortable".
Designers are regularly called upon to develop innovative products for everyday problems. Thinking even further outside the box, one designer is working in reverse on innovative ways to problematize existing solutions with results that are “designed to annoy you.” “This project started after I failed to finish my studies in industrial design around 2011,” explains Athens-based architect Katerina Kamprani,
A well-designed object should be aesthetically pleasing but also functional. However, now and then, we come across unusable everyday items that boast impractical shapes or unrealistic sizes. And even though we usually get annoyed or frustrated by these strange designs, we can, instead, choose to view them as precious belongings, as their eccentricity is guaranteed to encourage laughter and curiosity whenever we show them to our friends.
Human progress and the insurmountable force of nature converge in Camille Kachani’s overgrown sculptures. The Lebanese-Brazilian artist (previously) is known for his furniture, tools, and other practical objects that are overrun with new plant growths and gnarly roots, rendering the seemingly functional items like stools, hammers, and books humorously impractical. Whether a text bursting with vegetation or dresser drawers housing young sprigs, Kachani’s works highlight the futile attempts humans undertake to control the environment. More
Architect and graphic designer Katerina Kamprani has created a series of household items that are designed so horribly that make us appreciate good design a lot more. She calls this series "The Uncomfortable".
Human progress and the insurmountable force of nature converge in Camille Kachani’s overgrown sculptures. The Lebanese-Brazilian artist (previously) is known for his furniture, tools, and other practical objects that are overrun with new plant growths and gnarly roots, rendering the seemingly functional items like stools, hammers, and books humorously impractical. Whether a text bursting with vegetation or dresser drawers housing young sprigs, Kachani’s works highlight the futile attempts humans undertake to control the environment. More
Human progress and the insurmountable force of nature converge in Camille Kachani’s overgrown sculptures. The Lebanese-Brazilian artist (previously) is known for his furniture, tools, and other practical objects that are overrun with new plant growths and gnarly roots, rendering the seemingly functional items like stools, hammers, and books humorously impractical. Whether a text bursting with vegetation or dresser drawers housing young sprigs, Kachani’s works highlight the futile attempts humans undertake to control the environment. More
Human progress and the insurmountable force of nature converge in Camille Kachani’s overgrown sculptures. The Lebanese-Brazilian artist (previously) is known for his furniture, tools, and other practical objects that are overrun with new plant growths and gnarly roots, rendering the seemingly functional items like stools, hammers, and books humorously impractical. Whether a text bursting with vegetation or dresser drawers housing young sprigs, Kachani’s works highlight the futile attempts humans undertake to control the environment. More
Camille Kachani é um artista visual que mora na capital paulistana. Sua produção mescla escultura, pintura, desenho e vídeo.
Soft Cabinets from Studio Dewi van de Klomp rethink the typical bookshelf or cabinet by constructing them out of foam rubber with slots to hold objects.
Architect and graphic designer Katerina Kamprani has created a series of household items that are designed so horribly that make us appreciate good design a lot more. She calls this series "The Uncomfortable".
The Uncomfortable is a series of impractical household objects by Athens-based architect Katerina Kamprani. The infuriating works play off of common dishware, cutlery, and watering cans, making the task each is typically assigned either impossible or extremely difficult. Every object is created from the material it would be constructed from normally, making siamese wine glasses and linked ceramic mugs all the more humorous. Often before Kamprani creates the physical object, she will create a 3D model to test its shape. More
The Uncomfortable is a series of impractical household objects by Athens-based architect Katerina Kamprani. The infuriating works play off of common dishware, cutlery, and watering cans, making the task each is typically assigned either impossible or extremely difficult. Every object is created from the material it would be constructed from normally, making siamese wine glasses and linked ceramic mugs all the more humorous. Often before Kamprani creates the physical object, she will create a 3D model to test its shape. More
The Uncomfortable is a series of impractical household objects by Athens-based architect Katerina Kamprani. The infuriating works play off of common dishware, cutlery, and watering cans, making the task each is typically assigned either impossible or extremely difficult. Every object is created from the material it would be constructed from normally, making siamese wine glasses and linked ceramic mugs all the more humorous. Often before Kamprani creates the physical object, she will create a 3D model to test its shape. More
The latest in obsolete, personal entertainment units. What he lacks in portability, he more than makes up for with pure impracticality. Damn you digital cable. Damn you. 25" tall.
The Uncomfortable is a series of impractical household objects by Athens-based architect Katerina Kamprani. The infuriating works play off of common dishware, cutlery, and watering cans, making the task each is typically assigned either impossible or extremely difficult. Every object is created from the material it would be constructed from normally, making siamese wine glasses and linked ceramic mugs all the more humorous. Often before Kamprani creates the physical object, she will create a 3D model to test its shape. More
patrice letarnec has imagined a collection of 'prank furniture', turning famous, functional designs into impractical and uncomfortable objects.
Incorporating some previously fashioned elements, this reliquary was made to hold the foot bone of one of the "Holy Innocent" children massacred by Herod.
Product designers are often preoccupied with making objects that are as useful as possible. However, Katerina Kamprani, an Athens-based architect and 3d modeller, has created a series of everyday objects called “The Uncomfortable” where just the opposite is true.
Tiffany is selling silver balls of yarn and porcelain eggs for thousands of dollars.
Discover the Stool Made in 244 Minutes by Diego Faivre, exclusively available on Adorno. Stool made in brightly coloured clay, designed in a bid to inject some fun into daily and forgotten objects. Made in Diego Dough, a special type of air-drying clay that remains pliable once dry, the stool is priced according to Faivre’s “Minute Manufacturing” system, whereby every minute of production time costs €2. That means the.
Greek Designers and Architect Katerina Kamprani of kkstudio provide images for this ongoing projects. The way @floppykat writes about this project, seems to want to show deliberate bad design to compare to some of the ones out there. Maybe if we know what constitutes good and what constitutes bad design, we can recognise the bad ones more readily. We are not going to name names, but in the last few years there have been quite a few examples of major companies turning out bad design features on their products, that could almost justify putting them on this list. To get the best effect, once in the article you can enlarge the image by pressing it (not the first one). Press the Image to Enlarge it. Press the Image to Enlarge it. Press the Image to Enlarge it. Press the Image to Enlarge it. Press the Image to Enlarge it. Press the Image to Enlarge it. Press the Image to Enlarge it. Press the Image to Enlarge it. Press the Image to Enlarge it. Press the Image to Enlarge it. Press the Image to Enlarge it. Press the Image to Enlarge it. Press the Image to Enlarge it. Press the Image to Enlarge it. Press the Image to Enlarge it. Press the Image to Enlarge it.
