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Familiar Objects Re-designed to Frustrate your Brain — The Bold Italic — San Francisco

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By Jessica Saia

Ok, I know the word “innovation” has been on everyone’s vocab shitlist for a while now, but the idea of “disrupting” objects to make them worse is just so funny to me.

These images are a part of Katerina Kamprani’s ongoing series, The Uncomfortable Project, where she uses impressive 3D rendering skills to depict objects with slight design flaws that would render them useless. It’s charming and twisted, and looking at them kind of makes me uncomfortable. Success!

[h/t: ufunk]

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