Monday, being Mean Day, is a chance for us to seethe—and for you, too! Today’s FotoShoppe objects of contempt, envy and derision are a couple of interiors we’ve recently spotted on the altogether-too-fabulous Design Sponge.

Two recent posts took us inside the execrably beautiful homes of two Boston-area designers, and we got curious about their practice. ColorTHEORY, as it’s called, is a wretchedly exquisite outfit, and founding partners Brad Dufton and Jeremy McElwain have predictably lavish, numbingly gorgeous homes. The latter’s hallway is at right.

They go too far, however, in the humiliatingly poor copy that appears on their website—someone simply has got to set the LingoWatch police on these guys, pronto. A brief sample:

colorTHEORY is a full-service, residential Interior Painting and Wallpaper hanging company, servicing Boston & its’ surrounding areas… We will work hard to ensure that our end result, is to yours and your clients’ satisfaction, each and every time.

Oh, dear, dear, dear, dear. Just for that, we’re gonna mean-up their houses. Click through, you dogs!

Jeremy McElwain [Design Sponge]
Brad Dufton [Design Sponge]

Monday. Grrr! FotoShoppe. Bah-humbug! Architectural Digest’s 2009 Home Design Show. Snarl, grimace and scoff! The four-day cataclysm of tasteful interiors ended yesterday, but 3rings has posted various images, including the above “Wave Bench” by Stine Woodworkers, for us to drool over hate hate hate hate hate! Monday means Mean Day—click through, peasant!

Highlights from the AD Home Design Show 2009 [3rings]

Viewers on the eastern seaboard will be getting a double shot of FotoShoppe tomorrow, but for those of you maxin’ out on the left coast, consider this Late Night with Monday is Mean Day. Following up on Friday’s video, here’s some more landmine humor to put a little spring in your step. (Hi-oh!) It’s a simple enough premise, earnest and well-meaning: Frankfurt-based design firm Leo Burnett (and if you want to be driven slowly insane, click through to their website) dreamed up these stickers for UNICEF’s anti-landmine campaign. The gimmick won them a special Grand Prix Commendation last year at the first annual EACA Care Awards. These adhesive images stick to the soles of your shoes—just like landmines! And they teach you a valuable lesson—just like landmines. Still, we’re grouchy, so we declare it stunt-ish, and not a little morbid—mostly stunt-ish, like those dollar bills you pick up on the street only to find they’re actually advertisements for mattress stores. Joke’s on you, lame-brain! But if you want morbid, just have a look at some of Burnett’s other projects. We mean stunts!

UNICEF Landmine [Frederik Samuel]

Ick. It’s Monday, we’re cranky, and we’re going to take out our frustration on some relatively harmless product design. Fortunately, we’ve got an easy target this week: Korean-born, London-based Baek-Ki Kim’s lounge chair gone mad, the “Seatub”, above, which is just clever enough to bother with (and to get picked up by the UK’s Designer magazine), but just disgusting enough to reject as almost completely horrid. We can’t help but think of scuzzy soap scum pressing against our backs, even as our clothes picked up various exfoliated flecks and foul dark hairs. Shudder! Funny thing is that Kim’s background is more in electronics design. We’re wondering if he’s got a plasma TV framed in a toilet tank. Click through, baby birds, click through!

Seatub: Hold the Water [3rings]

Monday FotoShoppe, baby birds, ergo Mean Day: Time to bruise and bully some innocent piece of design. Today it’s Dandelion’s new toy collection based on the sketches of musician and dead person John Lennon. Says the Danelion site, “Our exclusive ‘imagine a better world’ collection features a whimsical kingdom of plush critters; where [sic] fabrics are made from organic terrycloth, soft velour, and touches of canvas.” Sounds okay—until you think of every fecund, upwardly mobile household in Park Slope trotting them around. Hate, hate, hate! At left, Pukestain, the Organic Giraffe. Click through if you must.

If you’re just joining us, this is Fotoshoppe on Monday, baby birds—and that means Mean Day. Today we’ve got one miserable, simpering, pitiful excuse for a piece of industrial design. Kindle 2, Amazon’s hand-held e-book reader, officially goes on sale tomorrow, and sweet merciful Jesus, it is uglier than a hat full of a**holes. Gizmodo asked the right question last month: Does Kindle 2 live up to the great Dieter Rams’ standard of quality design? Unfortunately, Gizmodo came to the wrong conclusion. Just because this is a new toy doesn’t mean Amazon is allowed to forgo innovation in designing it. On the contrary, if they want e-books to catch on, they oughtta think up something snazzier. Who exactly is in charge of design over there, anyway? We grrrr our Monday grrrr at him/her! Click through for more images/abuse.