Design is everywhere and in everything, be it the chair you are sitting on or the system you are even currently living under. Design is such an important part of our lives that we forget to think about it at all most of the time. But make no mistake, it is very crucial to have anything look or work in a functional way from an object to society in general.
We probably just thought that benches for example were made in one shape without anyone having to think about them at all. But look a little harder and you will see that someone had to take the time to draw and shape that bench before you sat down on it. But today we want to take things a step further and show you all the times that designs were just awful and caused an uproar. If you have seen or experienced any of these poor designs in real life, we are sorry.
Station
We were just speaking about benches so it is kind of funny that they would be the first thing on our list to come up. Here we can see that a subway station in New York City took their benches out, but the reason for it was shocking and if we are being honest, a little cruel.
They wanted to stop homeless people from sleeping on the benches at the station during the day or at night. So because they are finding shelter there, they need to be removed to discourage them from lingering around. Whatever happened to just helping out our fellow citizens when they fell on hard times?