Sorry, don't like the hangar and hate the description even more:

"It achieves a fine balance- a subtle jewel- adding value and attracting the eye without dominating."

Really? I mean... effing really?

This looks bulky and awkward.

Actually, I think the reason no one does hanger design is that people won't pay more for a cool looking hanger. They'll pay more for better functionality/support for good garments, but not pure aesthetics. Usually, the best hanger is a free hanger.

There's no survey button for 'zero stars'...

It's not that this is a terrible hanger. It's just that it seems like a very design-school-sort-of-thing. This is amplified by the fact that our sample concept sketch is half-completed on an old printout from the Victoria's Secret swimwear website. At least re-draw it cleanly, you know? I would have been counted down for turning that in when I was in school.

Oh, and by the way. Where do I sign up for someone to produce the stuff I design in Lucite?

Bad design -- it won't sit well with that flat edge. Okay looks wise (but no great shakes . . .) but a real failure in terms of practicality.

"-- like toilet paper and gym socks" - really? I still have wooden hangers from the men's store in my home town from first suits and jackets -- still working and a nice mementos.

If Mommy Dearest were being filmed again today, the line would be:
"No Plastic Hangers!!!"

Not a fan. Might be nice for displayin botiques, but my closet has far too many items for these to even be aesthetic -- they would just be in my way. I don't need my hangers to be anything but practical and relatively uniform.

Mid-C Frank is right! Why have a square hook when the average hanger pole is curved? Next to this, your average wire hanger is a thing of beauty ... or at least function. Plus, it's not a single-function object. You can use it to open locked car doors, grill hot dogs, mend fences ... what else can you do with a bulky piece of clear plastic?

When I critique product design work, I look at the problem the product solves. It's frustrating when the designer has invented a problem to be "solved", as frequently happens in student work.

When it comes to using this hanger in a retail setting, Faith Blakeney did actually pick one real problem: not being able to see the tag. Stores need hangers that are sturdy enough to stand up to lots of wear and tear, which means they are often bulky and block the tag.

Who here hasn't -- at one time or another -- made a mess of a store display after having to fish out each and every tag on a rack looking for the one shirt that might be there in your size? This could save employees from having to constantly straighten things up -- or at least my guilt about disheveling them in the first place.

Oh but why oh why the square hook? I think this needs to go back to the drawing board and heavily reference mussed retail racks with tags pull out every which way. Let's not forget the round racks this time around.

Agreed with most of above. I love Lucite, and love almost anything in Lucite, and that's a very well and good nice pretty hanger etc. etc.

But the primary goal of redesigning a hanger should pretty much always be increased functionality. Does it treat the clothes better? Does it create more space in the closet?

Maybe there's a use for a single wacky awesome high-design hanger to hang your prettiest dress (if you're a girl) on a hook in the room so you can look at it. But beyond that, no one wants "the coolest looking hanger in the world". It's a design school project, nothing more.

If there was an option of less than one, i would have given it.

Absolutely unnecesary, bulky, ugly and with just the right amount of extra trash plastics for the enviroment.

Oh, and by the way... don't we have enough "ghost" things already????

Hey all you guys out there knocking a square hangar....if some one builds a better looking more funtional high end hangar to display our dandy duds....go for it. The beauty of a square, really good looking hangar is how well it would look with clothes on pegs either in a store or your closet, and the flat design enables you to store more clothes in less space. I am a closet junkie and COLOR COORDINATE MY CLOTHES..THIS WOULD REALLY BE SOMETHING I WOULD INDULGE IN. I give it a high 5.

love it ...three stars for sure.
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Good strong long lasting look. Let's you see the label thru the hangar. I wear only 100% cotton and must keep searching for labels on regular store hangers.Let me know which boutiques will be using this product.
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Hi bette frankel/arthur f./popop cookie. Nice sock puppet fail.

Next time try spacing out the creation of your accounts over more than a day, not posting with the same signature style three minutes apart, and ACTUALLY SIGNING OUT OF ONE SOCK ACCOUNT before trying to leave a comment with another account.

You obviously like the design (may be the designer or at least a friend of the designer), and that's certainly your prerogative, but you're not going to win anyone over to it with this kind of ham-fisted attempt to drum up the appearance of more popular support.

That said, I could see this having some appeal in a retail setting, as part of a display with square pegs to hang them off of or specially designed racks. The combination of the square hook and the relatively shallow depth of it makes it look like it would easily be knocked off of a traditional round rod. Given all that, I'd stick with the more traditional (and more gracefully curved) wooden hangers.

First of all, this is the worst set of photos I've ever seen. The first one, with that horrid plaid shirt, looks like some cheap advertisement from the 1970s. And then there's the photo of the designer posing in front of WOODEN HANGERS...... Was that meant to be a joke?

That is one ugly hanger.

There should be an option for negative stars.

Don't like the concept of a square, shallow hook for a hanger, makes it easier to fall off the rack. Nor the fact that there is so much wasted material in making the hanger "solid". There is a reason there is negative space in a hanger (pants/belts/sashes etc).

Lastly the presentation is a joke right? A sketch on a printout and the photo of the designer in front of better looking and better functioning wooden hangers.

OK I gotta give kudos here since it seems that alot of the other "contestants" have already quit their day jobs and are already established in their field. This is a genuine effort by someone who is able get outside the box and is taking the initiative given by AT, bravo and keep going