Hidden Animals Optical Illusion

Hidden Objects 27 October 2014 1 Comment

Hidden Animals Optical Illusion

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 […]

Pacific Life Pavement Chalk Art

Anamorphosis,Video 13 October 2014 0 Comments

Pacific Life Pavement Chalk Art

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 […]

Jeep’s Animal Optical Illusions

Upside Down 11 September 2014 0 Comments

Jeep's Animal Optical Illusions

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 […]

Bar Code Zebra

Miscellaneous 7 August 2014 0 Comments

Bar Code Zebra

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 […]

Kölner Zoo Logo

Hidden Objects 4 August 2014 0 Comments

Kölner Zoo Logo

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 […]

Pointed Sense by Noma Bar

Ambiguous 21 July 2014 0 Comments

Pointed Sense by Noma Bar

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 […]

Tiger Hand Print Illusion

Ambiguous 19 June 2014 0 Comments

Tiger Hand Print Illusion

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 […]