The body as a design question

While it is clear that the human body is capable of adapting to so many impositions placed on it, it is interesting to see the body as a design question rather than as a problem.  As seen in Dezeen magazine,  Marcia Nolt has constructed a series of portraits that illustrate how the human body is capable of adapting itself to the design of products, including a hole in the lips for smokers and an extended shoulder for holding the phone.  The series is called Corpus 2.0 and shows a a variety of versions of the human body, influenced by factors like developments in technology, but also fashion phenomena, ways of living and products.  Other proposals seen here include a ridge in the nose developed for wearing glasses, ears moulded to accommodate earphones, a thumb with an extra joint for sending SMS messages more efficiently and a foot adapted to create the same posture as wearing high heels.  

The Imperfectionist Returns

So it's been a while, and although I may have been absent, hopefully I have not been forgotten.  In fitting tribute to my return I thought it would be appropriate to post the work of designer Sophie Duran, found in De Zeen magazine.  Duran has created a series of facial jewellery, including these lips which can be inflated with a hand pump.  The series is called The Imperfectionist, and includes a blue moustache with spectacle frames with a handle, as a homage to the vagaries of style the wearer can wind the false eyelashes up and down.  For those who find it difficult to commit permanently to a style (like myself) this is the perfect solution.