Rob Podell

Sr. Industrial Design
Milwaukee, WI, USA

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  • "Eating factory farmed meat is a FAR larger environmental impact than automobiles.  I love when people claim they care about the environment and talk shit about cars, yet continue to wolf down burgers and poultry 3 times a day.  Oh yeah, and please check out those factory farms you're supporting, with the cows jammed against each other like slave ships, seperated from their moms at birth, or the chickens that have had their beaks seared off to prevent them from pecking at each other, walking on corpses of ones that didn't make it.But cars are the problem.  Give me a fucking break."
    on: Cars Must Go
  • "The screens are bizarre.  I had a full color palm pilot thing back when the iMacs were new, could have just used one of those screens."
    on: Historical Fantasy for Industrial Designers: What if Apple Had Designed the iPhone in the '80s and '90s?
  • "Apple's mice have always been ergonomic disasters and utter garbage tho.  Remember the puck mouse?  Utter crap."
    on: Why You Shouldn't Be Surprised by Apple's $1,000 Monitor Stand
  • "Here's my beef with it.   The weightless mechanism is familiar and existed.  It isn't new tech.  Apple's G4 iMac had a similar built in monitor stand, housed in a chrome arm that went from the round iMac base to the LCD display.  That computer cost $1200 new.  Now, adjust for inflation, that same computer would cost $1700 now, which included an (admittedly poor) LCD and a computer, optical drive, etc.  So why does this stand cost $1000, if they used to sell something similar with a lot more built into it?Also, the magnet mount really irritates me.  Why does the screen mount with magnets?  What benefit does this provide to the user?  Are people expected to remove the monitor from the stand on a regular basis so they can sketch on it, like an ipad?  No.  It's corded.  So it provides no benefit.  It's an expensive, toolless way to attach something for a stationary product that provides no actual benefit for the user.  So why did they make this decision?"
    on: Why You Shouldn't Be Surprised by Apple's $1,000 Monitor Stand
  • "I've wanted to play with this for years but I'm a solidworks/alias guy.  I saw an article on it that used GD to come up with the general concept, then the designer 'surfaced' the web like structure to create something beautiful, striking, and manufacturable."
    on: Where Does Generative Design Belong? Designers Must Decide
  • "This doesn't make sense.McDonald's Milkshake:  530-670 calories, 54-168 grams of sugarSnickers Bar:  250 Calories, 27 grams of sugar.How is a milkshake 'less guilt'???   Also, at what point are you just enabling obesity?  Sure, profits go up, but they're doing so at the expense of healthcare costs.  Obese people put a huge drain on our medical industry, compared to people of normal bodyweight."
    on: People Don't Want Your Product Design. They Want the Outcome It Provides
  • "@Addvanced add me like and follow bro!"
    on: Exploring the Dangers of Industrial Design Instagram Influencers
  • "Whoever was responsible for pushing that beak grill should be named here, so we can blacklist them forever and ever, and they never get hired anywhere again.  Prior to the beak, Acura was producing some great looking cars, the TSX and TL were attractive and their only fault was being FWD, not RWD.   But that beak?  It was horrible when it debuted, and unlike other companies that realize their focus groups/management were out of whack, they JUST DOUBLED DOWN AND KEPT IT FOR SO LONG.The cars gained weight, got bigger, and lost the fun to drive factor of the TSX, and looked like shit.  That's what happened.Want to MAKE ACURA GREAT AGAIN? Bring back the fucking integra.  My generation grew up with it, and it was a fantastic car.  Over 30mpg, fast enough to get into decent trouble, and handled incredibly well due to the double wishbone suspension.  The ITR is widely regarded as one of the best handling FWD cars ever produced, and what does Acura make today that's remotely like it?  Absolutely nothing.  In fact, I don't even know what Acura makes today, because it's all a boring snooze fest, even with the grill redesign.Maybe I'm not the target market, I'm a car enthusiast that remembers Honda/Acura's 'golden years' from the late 80s to early 00s, but they have lost their way and do not understand how to make great cars anymore.How about this, email me, hire me, make me in charge of everythign, and I'll turn the company around.  The focus will be on SMALLER LIGHTER CARS with double wishbone suspension, great visibility, high strung VTEC motors, nicely made interiors that don't have a ton of pointless luxury options, and CLEAN, MINIMAL japanese styling.  Anyone who misbehaves will be forced to drive a Beak car for a month as punishment.   That precision concept is ..... very busy.  Very overstyled.  They still don't get it."
    on: Behind the Scenes at the Acura Design Studio
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