Personal Body Unit Index

Description

Sharpen your internal sense of scale. Personal Body Unit Index is a cheatsheet to use your body as a tool to measure things. We obsessively measure things. How high is that coat hook? How wide is that table? Is that really 3” diameter tube stock? Instead of carrying around a tape measure, we use our bodies to measure stuff! Personal Body Unit Index is a collection of 17 diagrams of the body useful positions for measuring. Take your measurements and fill in each area. You probably know how tall you are, but do you know your fathom? That’s the distance between the tips of your fingers when you spread out your arms (aka wingspan). It is really useful to have an intuitive sense of scale. Whether you're rearranging furniture in your house, or at a hardware store trying to pick the right diameter pipe fitting. As designers, we spend a lot of time working on computers, handling raw materials and getting a feel for objects that surround us. Computer screens make blue whales and pinky nails spatially indistinguishable. Our desks are cluttered with rulers, calipers and tape measures to constantly reference the physical dimensions of things that live on screens. PBUI is another tool to hone o