Form Follows Function...or does it?

It is amazing what one can learn in the shower. I've just washed my hair and reach for the conditioner. I can tell by the weight of the container that I have about 1/4 left. I turn it upside down and squeeze but am rewarded only by a wheeze of air. I shake and squeeze to no avail. It is then that I notice my bottle has shapely contours and hard edges which do not easily submit to squeezing.


No one should have to work this hard in the shower. Honestly. The image of the bottle looks appealing enough; it has a tactile satisfaction... and maybe that's how I got suckered into grabbing it off the shelf. As a designer, I'm susceptible to shiny, interesting objects. I can only imagine that whoever designed this container had never before worked in 3D space. Maybe it's a frustrated print designer who got their hands on a trial version of a 3D software?

Whatever the case, I now notice and evaluate every container I encounter and I'm shocked to find that my conditioner container is no anomaly. I seems there are rogue designers out there, wreaking havoc on the consumer world with their fckfnctn anarchy.