Dr. Angry and Mr. Smile
The neighbouring face images change between sharp and blurred. When they are sharp, the face on the left looks angry and male, the face on the right female and kind (no generic character attribution implied). With increasing blur the expressions change places.
Using a technique they described 1994, Philippe G. Schyns & Aude Oliva (1999) hid 2 faces in one hybrid image
here are a fwe links if you are interested in the "how it happens">
Michael’s Optical Illusions & Visual PhenomenaThey also have their paper
here.
Here are a few more images of the "hybrid image" technique.
Amazing i must say!
Humble Masterpieces
Humble MasterpiecesThis exhibition in MoMa featured nearly 120 simple objects, from Post-It® notes to paper clips, Band-Aids to Bic pens. We use items like these every day, but chances are we will not pay them much attention. While modest in size and price, these objects are indispensable masterpieces of design, deserving of our admiration.
Oops ! why didn't i think of it???
You can buy these from
here.The complete list of the exibits, equally interesting, can be reached
here.
Naoto Fukasava's exquisite synthesis of east and west has produced a wide range of products in seeming perfect balance. His objects, however, merely look simple.
Read
this article where his contemporaries talk about him and their experience working with him.
( Thanx
core77 )
Form celebrates its 50th birthday with an
anniversary issue sporting articles by 50 top designers discussing the first cover drawn by Le Corbusier. Part of that very first issue is pictured above, with the stylings of none other than Garret Rietveld! Better yet, Form has posted all issues over the past 50 years (that's over 200,000 pages) online--free of charge! The folks at Form hope that these
archives, along with a complete text search tool, will help readers feed their design curiosities.
expandable structures