I thought mounting to the bottom of the front rack next to the tire but forward enough to avoid wheel shadow was the one true way.
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This is what I did on my commuter and it is delightful.
This dude also abides - what I have currently on the 
steel fork.
But the appeal of the plastic fork dither is no rack 
so I guess back to this
The guy who made my bass clarinet case does custom carbon fiber cases. I wonder if I could get him to glue together some tubes to make this.
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Or I guess just buy some tubes and thread and epoxy myself and see what I can do in my backyard. What could go wrong?
Maybe a simple 3 point mount like this (to back of fork crown)
But then I may as well have a rack 
What is the rationale for not drilling that hole all the way through?
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If they did, then you might put a rack on it.
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How long would those two arms be?
Ponoko can laser cut 1/8" aluminum and they have a hub in Berlin. Or maybe it’s a sandwich of 1/16" aluminum with acrylic or delrin in between.
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you might accidentally start a bike industry business
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it’s gotta be pretty far forward for the wheel shadow to not be worse than side rack
Here is a possible formed sheet metal version. Could definitely be made one piece, and a lot better looking, but this is a start and would be easier to make yourself, and/or would fit in a smaller area if trying to nest it with other parts.
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I’m going to try and make a version for 3d printing, because I think that would be a good challenge and I haven’t worked on something fun and product-y in a while.
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Shit.
How about one of these?
Gives you a vertical hole that’ll take an M6 bolt for the fork crown mount. I did a quick mockup of the idea:
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Now this is podracing dithering.
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Or, hear me out, get pokes with a crown hole on the front.
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Or put it on a fender and don’t take the fender off.