Comments on: Family by Kaman Tung

By: Christina Cudworth

Christina Cudworth — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 04:25:51 +0000

This is only a suggestion, but schools have a REAL problem with book holders (a cloth hanger on the back of typical classroom chairs) on the back of their chairs, not being either strong enough, or big enough for childrens books, or other daily items. Have you considered marketing to schools these amazing chairs? I know its far from your design target market, however, I could see schools ordering these. Teachers and kids would love them!

By: tracy

tracy — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 07:38:33 +0000

I totally agree with charlotte above.

By: tracy

tracy — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 07:34:13 +0000

Well done! it’s so usefull. Form compliment function! The only matter is the bulkiness.

By: szpakowski

szpakowski — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:41:08 +0000

I like the idea of the family…let me see, the table is the mother, giving a focus to the group and bringing them together, there is the father, with a long coat he needs to hang up, the daughter who is never without her laptop, and the son with his backpack full of sketchbooks and pencils. Now the family needs a pet to sit under the table.
Very nice project with a good conceptual and critical foundation. Thanks for sharing it.

By: zuy

zuy — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 13:35:12 +0000

It’s the first family of 3 chairs with 2 with compartments to hold personal belongings and one with hanger…but i think an other solution : the under seat solution is better because the chair is still stackable but not there

By: Less Please.

Less Please. — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 07:44:31 +0000

So I have eyed the merchandise and the posted links that attempt to disqualify these works as “new ideas”. There have been chairs in foyers with coat racks and chairs with storage forever, who cares, let it be a flexible template. These are quaint and aesthetically marketable to any of your favorite coffee shops. Great job!

By: Marcus

Marcus — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 22:34:38 +0000

Fair point Morgan. We’re trying our best to strike a balance. Believe it or not we do actually filter out many of the “Love it!” comments as well… the odd one or two is harmless though and if I were the designer I’d appreciate a bit of unqualified praise now and then!

By: morgan geist

morgan geist — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 22:16:31 +0000

Dear Marcus,

Thank you for your reply.

I do understand that anonymous criticism can be almost aimless, unless it is intelligent and touches on a point that is universal or strongly reinforced within the comment. This is uncommon, and a bit of a problem.

So I do understand your stance. However, I feel this editing/censoring should go both ways. I imagine you are aiming to not only maintain a level of quality but to develop it with time… so when I say that the censoring should go both ways, I mean a case of positive editing/censoring would condense the quality of the comments and could create a platform or possibility for any debates.
maybe cut 1 out of 10 “woooo! love it love IT LOVE IT!” comments.

Let’s all be more positive in 09

Morgan

By: Marcus

Marcus — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 21:38:25 +0000

Re morgan geist and mikaël: this is one we can’t win. We used to be reluctant to edit out any comment, no matter how negative or critical, but many readers got fed up with this and, more importantly, designers whose work got panned by anonymous critics understandably got upset and stopped sending us their work.

So now we use our discretion and filter out many of the comments that we feel are rude, spiteful, counterproductive or generally opposed to spirit of the welcoming and accessible site we are trying to run.

Some people feel this amounts to censorship but we hope it will encourage people to find ways to make their points without upsetting others. The last thing we want to do is stifle debate but a lot of what has previously passed for debate on our pages has actually been more like bullying.

See our earlier debate about negative comments on Dezeen: http://www.dezeen.com/2008/10/15/dezeen-debate-should-we-block-negative-comments/.

Finally, sorry if we haven’t responded to your emails but there are only three of us here and we are simply overwhelmed with the amount of mail we get!

Let’s all be nicer in 09

Marcus, dezeen

By: mikaël

mikaël — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 17:37:26 +0000

Hey morgan,
You are not alone… I have found myself to tame down my comments to a point where they are almost mind numbing. Here how it usually goes: I read a post, then the goody two shoes comments that follow, then post a comment of my own, witch I find critical and witty without being simply judgmental and wait for it to be censured. I then go at it two more times before I send an email to the editor, witch goes unreplied, and post a comment that is little more than “me likee’, that finally gets published.
hope you get more luck