Hidden Objects
27 October 2014 1 Comment
Art Directors Anaïs Boileau and Samuel Volk oversaw the production of this recent advertisement for the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) called Botanimal. The copy that accompanies the ad (which can be seen in the lower right corner, but is much too small to read here) is as follows: “Donate to save a tree and save […]
Anamorphosis,Video
13 October 2014 0 Comments
While watching the Michigan State vs. Purdue football game this past weekend (Michigan State won 45-31), a commercial for the insurance company Pacific Life came on during one of the breaks. It took me about half way through the commercial before I realized that the subject matter of the advertisement was a three dimensional anamorphic […]
Upside Down
11 September 2014 0 Comments
International advertising agency Leo Burnett created a series of three topsy-turvy optical illusion images for an ad campaign for Jeep. Each of the designs features an image of an animal with the tag line “See whatever you want to see.” printed beneath the Jeep logo. When the designs are turned upside down, the animal transforms […]
Miscellaneous
7 August 2014 0 Comments
This interesting illustration, inspired by the art of Thomas Barbèy, shows a zebra that appears to be melting into what looks like a bar code. To create this piece, Nevit Dilmen started with an actual photograph of a zebra taken at Copehagen Zoo. He then digitized it and manipulated the stripes to come up with […]
Hidden Objects
4 August 2014 0 Comments
It probably goes without saying that we love logos that feature optical illusions or other hidden objects. The logo presented below is for the Kölner Zoo in Germany. It features a green elephant with a star for an eye. Closer examination of the logo, however, reveals a few hidden objects. Do you see them? In […]
Ambiguous
21 July 2014 0 Comments
Israeli graphic artist Noma Bar produces visually-striking and simple illustrations that take full advantage of negative space. In this example, titled Pointed Sense, Noma captures a scene which he saw once where a male black labrador tucked his nose behind a female white labrador and gave her a good sniff. Her tail was up over […]
Ambiguous
19 June 2014 0 Comments
This image looks like someone dipped their entire hand in black ink and then pressed it firmly on a white sheet of paper. When they removed it, however, something remarkable could be seen in the print… an image of a tiger trotting toward you. The four fingers make up the legs of the tiger and […]