Bruce Mau Design reimagines the look of a Facebook page

We invited Bruce Mau Design, a firm famous for its conceptual ambition, to reimagine what a Facebook page might be. To signal that they were aiming at more than a cosmetic redo, BMD's design director Paddy Harrington and his team left many of Facebook's graphic details intact. Instead, they took a stab at some new functionality, reflecting their ideal vision of a social networking site.
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