The project draws inspiration from Zygmunt Bauman’s idea of liquid relationships, where connections are fragile, temporary, and easily replaceable. From this reflection, the metaphor is translated literally: if people are treated like objects, what if they came with a user manual?

The result is a small A5 editorial publication that adopts the cold, instructional tone of real product manuals to describe a person. The design is intentionally minimal and functional, using generous white space and a clean sans serif typeface to reinforce the instructional aesthetic. The instructions are deliberately incomplete and sometimes contradictory, turning the manual into a system that fails by design and exposing the impossibility of reducing human complexity to a set of rules.