The World’s Best Stereograms. Honest! is a collection of 80 stunning 3D stereograms created by world renowned artists Gene Levine and Gary Priester. Together, they have a combined 60+ years of experience designing these unique and fascinating works of art. During this time, they have kept pushing the art of the 3D stereogram as far as it will go […]
With the holidays approaching, you may find yourself looking for a unique gift idea. You might want to give The Art of Optical Illusions: Deceptions to Challenge the Eye and the Mind a try. The Art of the Optical Illusions, a 224-page hardcover authored by Brad Honeycutt and Terry Stickels, looks at the several forms […]
Today is the official release date for a new 224-page hardcover volume of optical illusion art titled The Art of Deception: Illusions to Challenge the Eye and the Mind. This book, from Brad Honeycutt, features a foreword by John Langdon and an epilogue by Scott Kim. It is a companion volume to The Art of […]
Andre Martins de Barros started painting at the age of 15. After serving time in the military, he decided to pursue his passion full-time to devote all of his time and energy to his art. In his painting titled “Le Libraire” (or “The Librarian”) below, a collection of books is arranged in such a way […]
The Kansas City Public Library decided to do something interesting with their parking garage. In 2004, they transformed an otherwise unattractive parking structure into an artistic landmark in downtown Kansas City, Missouri. Now known as the Community Bookshelf, this mural resembles 22 giant books arranged as if they were lined up on a bookshelf. The […]
While browsing through Nikita Prokhorov’s recent book Ambigrams Revealed for the third time, one of the featured ambigram designs really stood out to me. This design by Mark Palmer from Red Chapter Clothing reads exactly the same when rotated 180 degrees. Palmer notes that, “From start to finish, this Shark Attack ambigram is one of […]
Exceptional Eye Tricks, by Brad Honeycutt, is a collection of optical illusions designed to amaze, confuse, and fool the viewer. This book contains a variety of illusion types including composite images, trompe l’oeil, tricks of perspective, and the physically impossible. The cover of the book features a motion illusion from Fiestoforo that appears to spin […]
