Industrial design is all about the interplay of functional components with aesthetics. Think how the iPhone home button is a functional component, but there's v

Industrial design is all about the interplay of functional components with aesthetics. Think how the iPhone home button is a functional component, but there's visual design work that went into that specific shape and it's a part of the look. Similarly, there are a lot of ways to put antennae on a router, and this company chose one particular way that would have one particular (hideous) look.