Katerina Kamprani is an architect living and working in Athens, Greece. As opposed to the opinion of the majority of product designers who create concepts to be useful to their users, Kamprani does completely the opposite. She designs products which are deliberately useless. She wants them to annoy you!
The “Uncomfortable” project originates back in 2011 when she failed to graduate from industrial design and wanted to deconstruct the invisible design language
Most product designers are on a never-ending mission to create things that are easier, faster, and more functional—or as the saying goes, to build a better mousetrap. Designer and architect Katerina Kamprani takes a different approach. For her ongoing project, the Uncomfortable, Kamprani redesigns everyday items and makes them more difficult to use. The pieces, which range from a concrete umbrella to a chain-handled fork, offer an inventive and often humorous take on objects whose utility we’ve come to take for granted. The project was sparked while she was in a postgraduate course in design and interactive studies. "I learned a lot about the term user experience, which refers to the overall experience of a person using a product, especially in terms of how easy or pleasing it is to use,” Kamprani says. “This inspired me to do exactly the opposite. I just thought it was funny to think in an unconventional way and I was amazed by how difficult it was to deconstruct everyday objects in my mind!”
© 2018. All images are copyrighted © by Katerina Kamprani. The use of any image from this site is prohibited unless prior written permission is obtained.
The “Uncomfortable” project originates back in 2011 when she failed to graduate from industrial design and wanted to deconstruct the invisible design language
Most product designers are on a never-ending mission to create things that are easier, faster, and more functional—or as the saying goes, to build a better mousetrap. Designer and architect Katerina Kamprani takes a different approach. For her ongoing project, the Uncomfortable, Kamprani redesigns everyday items and makes them more difficult to use. The pieces, which range from a concrete umbrella to a chain-handled fork, offer an inventive and often humorous take on objects whose utility we’ve come to take for granted. The project was sparked while she was in a postgraduate course in design and interactive studies. "I learned a lot about the term user experience, which refers to the overall experience of a person using a product, especially in terms of how easy or pleasing it is to use,” Kamprani says. “This inspired me to do exactly the opposite. I just thought it was funny to think in an unconventional way and I was amazed by how difficult it was to deconstruct everyday objects in my mind!”
© 2018. All images are copyrighted © by Katerina Kamprani. The use of any image from this site is prohibited unless prior written permission is obtained.
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