UMO - 6th Boycott Bad Design Contest'10

Communication is the new order of life on our planet. H2O, O2 and a skill set on our resumes is not enough anymore to survive in this ever growing complex ecosystem of life.

Mobile and social communication is a big buzz word and why not, after all we have over 300 million mobile subscribers.

Communication is one of the most basic and also the most complicated of human expressions. Depending on the context and situation, communication can address plethora of emotional needs and can make or break relations, career and business. Communication is the most powerful of all mediums. But unfortunately and inevitably we let developing technologies seize the control of our communication. Medium has become the messenger and message itself now.

Boycott Bad Design Contest'10 encourages participants to look at various means, modes, mediums, products and services of communication from the most latest micro blogging rage like Twitter on the Internet to the not so pre-historic mediums like newspapers, radio, television and telephone. All identified bad designs must be currently in use.

Boycott Bad-Design Contest'10 Winners

The following ten entries were chosen as the best submissions ( Rs. 3000/- each ) for the "Boycott Bad-Design Contest'10"

Jury Panel | Competition Details

Team-UMO duly acknowledges it's gratitude towards all the participants.

Boycott Bad-Design Contest'10 Entries Preview

The design of Anar is in such a way that one has to bend entirely on it, so as to burn or light it, which is quite risky and there might be serious effects if not moved early before it start burning.

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2011 - 01.22.

There is always a connection problem while trying to access a yahoo Messenger.

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2011 - 01.22.

This is how the Indian roads look especially when it rains…Manholes and Loops????Who has to think of it?????U and I but not the road contractors, who lay the roads and not the government which issues those contracts…

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2011 - 01.22.

The switch boards are very useful for electrical instruments like mobiles for charging. But now so many designs are available in them some of are not support all types of plugs. Such as the flat slate squares not support for round pin plugs. 

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2011 - 01.22.

As people have lots of faith in Lord Ganesh, they celebrate Ganesh visargan on the occasion of birthday of Ganesh (गणेश चतुर्थी) with full of enthusiasm.Two to three months prior to Ganesh Chaturthi, artistic clay models of Lord Ganesha are made for sale by specially skilled artisans. They are beautifully decorated & depict Lord Ganesh in various poses.

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2011 - 01.22.

Picture taken at PVN Rao Express way near Mehdipatnam.
No speed control, No sign boards
No pedestrian crossings.

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2011 - 01.22.

The utensil requires expertise in closing the lid.
The whistle can get misplaced.
The rubber gasket wear out.

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2011 - 01.22.

This model doesn’t have the feature of a Vibration mode in it. There is just an option of Silent mode and if we keep the phone on a silent mode we can’t even notice whether a call or a message is coming if we keep it in our pocket because this model doesn’t have an option of silent mode with a vibration in it.

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2011 - 01.22.