DustPan+Bin: a name as ruthlessly descriptive as it is full of annoying designer-y typographic quirks. The concept product it refers to is a combo trashcan and dustpan, complete with a handsome matching broom. The idea seems to be that you would leave the triangular receptacle in the corner of the room, just like any other trashcan, but when a rubbish-strewn-on-floor emergency arises, you are merely ninety degrees and a good sharp kick away from cleaning up.
I like it, but it is completely impractical. First, the kind of gunk I sweep off the floor is the kind of moist filth most people spill: coffee grounds, gore hacked from dead animals as I prepare them for the pot, and other garbage. Take a look at the dirty state of your current dustpan and you’ll remember why you hide it away when not in use.
Second, that fat lip would make it impossible to get anything but the biggest chunks of junk into the bucket’s handsome maw. Sure, it may work with the artfully crumpled paper in the product shot, but that’s also the kind of accident I pick up with my hands.
There is one unintentional function which saves it, though. When in trashcan orientation, there is a useful-looking backboard formed by the rear side. That backboard would make a perfect surface to toss those paper scrumples against and have them bounce into the can. Sweet office fun.
DustPan+Bin [Lufdesign via Core77]
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