On designing the body

by | Monday, October 27, 2008

Corpus 2.0 by Marcia Nolte is a set of seven portraits illustrating how the human body could adjust itself to the design of products, including a hole in the lips for smokers and an extended shoulder for holding a phone. Very strange and very interesting, check it out

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2 Comments

  1. Punya Mishra

    Thanks.

    Just for context, the previous comment notes a typo I had in the title of the posting. It has been fixed now.

    Reply
  2. mark

    DESIGNING

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