Optical Illusions & Psychedelic Art
Akiyoshi Kitaoka is amazing! His mastery of color contrast and leading the eye is well worth studying. You will probably recognize some of his works from an email forward going around some time ago, regarding the perception of movement in static images, a.k.a. Optical Art.
Dandelions that look like they are growing.
More & Better:
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His site was down when I was researching for my Psychedelic Art Presentation in my History of Communication Graphics course, so enjoy it while it’s there. I imagine he exceeds his allotted bandwidth on a regular basis - that, and the server is in Japan.
Groovin’ fonts contained within presentation were found here, along with an Edvard Munch scream cursor that displays when my laptops’ gears are grinding.