What do YOU see?

Submitted by Ivan on Mon, 2004-12-20 06:20.

Old woman or young lady? Young Woman or Old?
That depends on your interpretation. Young people tend to see a young girl; older people, an elderly lady. With effort, you can switch from one to the other: the young woman's chin becomes the old woman's nose; the old woman's mouth, a band on the neck of the young woman.
By American psychologist E.G. Boring

Hidden symbols. Optical illusion. Visual games. Surprising colors.

While playing with positive and negative spaces is a never falling technique of graphic designers, we tend to forget that there is so much more we can do to amaze and entertain our audience. Promise me that next time you think of a new design consider doing something visually fun. And, if you have any related links, please add them as comments.

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One idea that I once used is

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 2005-04-09 10:01.

One idea that I once used is based on certain visual colour "fun" tricks that were very well studied and documented by Josef Albers in his book from the early 1970s The Interaction of Color. The book is full of pictures like this one, showing how different shades of grey look the same, depending on the background. Recommend you get the original out of the public library with all 152 color plates. Here's the color newspaper ad for SFU that uses this visual phenomenon. To gain a real appreciation of this phenomenon, take these images into photoshop and try the eye dropper on them to see just how different the two shades of grey are.

An oldie :)Count the men, wai

Submitted by Ivan (not verified) on Sun, 2005-04-10 02:46.

An oldie :)
Count the men, wait and watch, then count again!

hey! hello!sorry to post this

Submitted by Latente! (not verified) on Sun, 2005-04-10 04:31.

hey! hello!

sorry to post this commnet here, but.. can you help me with categories in my blog?? i saw that you have some.. and i know how to make them in my blog... please.. if u want. thanks anyway.