Can't Keep a Good Man Down

The city of London recently held a contest to promote drinking tap water in restaurants. Entrants had to design an "iconic" carafe. The winner's design is simple and lovely--it even has a "waist" to hold back ice cubes. When I checked out the runners up, there was one design that instantly stood out. One design which, though iconic in a sense, doesn't seem to be exactly family-friendly, let alone something you want to drink out of. I present to you "Tap", or as the Brits would say, "Meat and Two Veg":



The designer explains himself thus (the parentheses are mine):

"To be effective a design that communicates a message must be confident (cocksure, even) – it must be, to a degree, an icon.

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I felt that as well as producing a form that could stand out in the visual noise of the better dressed tables in London’s restaurants (liquid filled phalluses do have that tendency, don't they?), when diners paused for a second (only a second?) to consider the shape of the vessel (of life?), they would enjoy the moment the traditional tap came into their mind’s eye, and they got the design. "

Yeah, I don't think that a traditional tap is the first thing most people are going to think of. Although, it got so far as to be a runner up in a national contest, so I guess some people didn't notice...

Although, I could be wrong. Refer to designer Adam White's page on London on Tap (here) and find the body part (don't worry, it's G-rated) that his design also resembles. Art, meet Life. Life, Art.