{"id":4497,"date":"2010-07-26T17:51:01","date_gmt":"2010-07-26T17:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hunterwimmer.com\/redneckmodern\/2010\/07\/26\/flushed-2\/"},"modified":"2010-07-26T17:51:01","modified_gmt":"2010-07-26T17:51:01","slug":"flushed-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hunterwimmer.com\/redneckmodern\/2010\/07\/26\/flushed-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Flushed"},"content":{"rendered":"

I discovered something on the toilet (literally) a few weeks ago:<\/p>\n

The "higher power" of design can only be realized once its basic objectives are met.<\/em><\/p>\n

(You can quote me on that).<\/p>\n

In this case, I don't care if my toilet is designed by Philipe Starck<\/a> if it doesn't flush worth a damn — and it doesn't. To the point that we have well-designed plungers by OXO<\/a> next to each.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Specifically, the "throat" of the toilet — where the porcelain meets the wax gasket — chokes down abruptly at the flange about 40%… a 5in path chokes down to a 3in flange. Both the path of travel before (in the toilet itself) and after (in the waste-pipe) is significantly larger — think: pinching a straw. It's hard to describe, but I can only imagine it's there to prevent cracking at the flange rather than some odd porting technique like you'd do with the heads on your engine<\/a>… it's just weird, but it definitely negatively effects its function (I'll not elaborate further).<\/p>\n

My day-job is shepherding students through design school and lofty design-centric topics like this are the bread-and-butter of classroom discussion (and yes, this has already become lecture fodder). Students like to "shoot for the stars" as it were — and we encourage them to do that… but only after mastering the fundamentals: Picasso learned to paint figuratively<\/a> before he branched into Cubism and as a design-student (or as a design object), there are table-stakes to be had: a doctor needs to know anatomy, an engineer needs to know math, a communications-designer needs to know the principles of design (balance, harmony, contrast, etc.), a blender needs to blend… <\/p>\n

…and a toilet needs to flush well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I discovered something on the toilet (literally) a few weeks ago: The "higher power" of design can only be realized once its basic objectives are met. (You can quote me on that). In this case, I don't care if my toilet is designed by Philipe Starck if it doesn't flush worth a damn — and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-this-modern-life"],"yoast_head":"\nFlushed - Red Neck Modern<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/hunterwimmer.com\/redneckmodern\/2010\/07\/26\/flushed-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Flushed - Red Neck Modern\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I discovered something on the toilet (literally) a few weeks ago: The "higher power" of design can only be realized once its basic objectives are met. 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