"THE VICTORIAN HAND" Research Group Business Card Design

Bodies are critical to how we construct and present our identities to the world. The roots of this phenomenon lie in the Victorian period when the body became a powerful mechanism for reading inner qualities from external appearances. Our project uses history to stimulate dialogue about the place of emotional embodiment in our personal and social lives, revealing the hand’s vital role as both a tool of objectification and an agent of self-empowerment…