bad design awards.

there is this award conducted every year to commemorate badly designed products. they may be houses, products, packages, services, anythign that has come into existence can contend for this award. its the ignoble of design, or the mock oscars (dont recall what they are called.)

here is my nomination for the awards.
whiskey. 180ml units. tetra pack. who thought of that? logically addressing the given problem. you need a way to transport alcohol. that is cheap to manufacture. easy to transport. easy to store. stackable. attractive to look at as individual units and as multiple unit packs. (a six pack of beer.... ) and the genius came up with a tetrapack! idiot! ever thought of the consequences? ever thought that all u need to get these cartons oodling juice is a blunt object.. thats all.. nothing more.. no bottle openers, no corkscrews.. not that these wont work.. but u dont need them.. a simple pen, a key, a nail, a piece of rock, anything would do...!in a country where we have our fare share of riots and social misbehavior i think the genius should be give the award hands down!

that brings us to the bigger issue t hand,.. how did he arrive upon this solution(????????) what was the process of design? is he some capitalist fruit cake sitting in his office sipping off a vodka and juice when he chances a glance upon the carton of juice kept there and says .. (stoned voice..) u know what we could do.. sell whiskey in tetra packs.. cheap to pack, easy to smuggle into places, easy to transport and safety.. who gives a ****!
Or is it a underpaid designer fresh on design but not on practicality who says .. dude.. labels are so passe.. we need a new way to present our goods.. then he says.. what say to tetra packs.. and the rest of the room says... dude.. that is soooo coool man.. lets drink to this!

i dont know.. and frankly i dont care.. but the conclusion sucks.. on levels beyond reason.. and how is it that it doesnt bother the government that we make fuel to burn that much more accessible! plus the possibility of contamination! the chances of leakage and the possibility of it becoming more readily duplicable by bootleggers.. all this doesnt bother the government who sits in their ivory towers deciding which city to rename next, which industry to target for tax extortion for adding security detail to their fat over fed under intelligent wives!
i am not telling all of them suck.. but if u arent a part of the solution u are definitely a part of the problem.