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One of the sections on Urban Daily Life is devoted entirely to electronics, shot all lined up on store shelves. In Dubai, the sun fades their packaging into a sea of "bluish cardboard," and here, in China, someone has appropriated the shape of a Nokia cell phone for a cheap landline handset. "If you were stoned you might draw something like this," Otten says. "It's the weirdest design I've ever seen — so brilliant and so typically Chinese. I can't get my head around it."