I’m sorry, that is only forgivable for a sophomore-year, maybe junior-year project. For those folks I would blame the professor who shouldn’t be assigning such a project.
This epitomizes a solution looking for a problem. On top of that, absolutely no research was done at all. No benchmarking and certainly no customer research. It’s like they rode a bike when they were 8 and haven’t ridden since.
Even if this were a pure aesthetics project, it fails in so many ways it hurts. Proportions all wrong. Colliding forms are all wrong. Finish is all wrong.
Don’t get me wrong. I made plenty of abominations while in school. But I would take what hopefully is the constructive criticism, fix the problems, then add it to the portfolio. I would not show the before as a standalone. And only sometimes would I show a before with an after. That is something I would nail to the professor.