Jul 10, 2011
Ambigrams. Rotate the art 180° and it still reads the same! Remember the Angels & Demons logo for Dan Brown’s book and film? John Langdon created it. John and I met 15 years ago when we were both exhibiting at a big trade show in New York City. We were...
Jun 24, 2011
Simply had to share these terribly clever shopping bags. See more created by BoredPanda.com.
Jun 16, 2011
Joseph Egan and Hunter Thompson are first year Graphic Design Communication Students currently studying at Chelsea College of Art & Design in London. Exploring the relationship between graphic design and architecture, they learned about master artist Felice...
May 10, 2011
August 1950. A magical month for 8 year-olds at the Jersey Shore. We got 25₵ each day to spend anyway we wished, on comic books (10₵) or candy or games at the arcade! Our best fun adventure, though, was crawling under the boardwalk to find fallen treasure –...
Apr 21, 2011
Gutsy enough to send corrections to a dictionary or encyclopedia? What do you think of people who do? Are they just “smarty pants”? Well, meet Smarty Pants Me! Decades ago I sent a note to Webster’s New World Dictionary about their strangely illustrated abacus. As...
Mar 29, 2011
Graphic artist Erika Iris Simmons works in wonderfully unconventional media. She likes to take things- random things – like you would find at a garage sale or in a thrift store – and make them into composite art. “Most of my pieces become portraits...
Mar 25, 2011
Optical illusion lovers, there’s a delightful surprise behind Seattle’s Safeco Field ballpark. If you’re beside the chain link fence, it looks like someone randomly shoved ping pong balls into spaces. But seen from a distance, the fence merges into an ingenious...
Mar 17, 2011
Can you figure out how it’s done? I think I can. Let’s compare theories. www.OOZandOZ.com Optical Illusion Toys and Activities
Mar 12, 2011
In Frederick, Maryland, there is a bridge painted with trompe l’oeil murals and slant art. I visited the bridge to see its optical illusions. I came away with the story of its creation – a profoundly moving tale of community achievement. In early 1993,...
Mar 6, 2011
This mind blowing PhotoShopped image was sent to me by a friend who shares my passion for optical illusion art. I Googled the photo credit and was blown away (fortunately, not like the guy below) by Worth 1000’s creative photo contest entries. Check ’em...
Feb 8, 2011
“Yuan yang” is a typical Hong Kong beverage mix of tea and coffee, and also a symbol of marriage and love. Sculptor Tsang Cheung-shing united both concepts in an ingenious ceramic work in which tea and coffee poured from separate cups flow together in a...
Feb 1, 2011
Sunday evening, I joined my dearest friends for a sense-sational candle-lit birthday dinner at Salty’s overlooking Elliott Bay. Seattle skyline party lights rippled across gentle waves. Reflections of our candle flames and balloons danced in the dark picture...
Jan 23, 2011
As Chief Morphology Officer at OOZ & OZ, I have decided to create this blog to share with you my passion for mirror art and toys and other optical illusions. Optical illusions, inventive images, mind-challenging toys thrill and fascinate me. They tickle my gray...
