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Hovering Home: Near-Invisible Mirrored Forest Residence

A white box seems to hover in mid-air in the middle of the forest, with no visible supports suspending it from adjacent trees. This structure isn't a treehouse at all, and it's actually at least ...

Urban Camo: Body Paint Blends Humans into City Backdrops

Human figures blend into iconic New York City scenes, from the Brooklyn Bridge to the Guggenheim Museum, in artist Trina Merry's tromp l'eoil urban camouflage works. Each subject is carefully ...

Liu Bolin is Back: ‘Invisible Man’ Artist (Dis)Appears Again

The master of urban camouflage has returned, this time exhibiting his latest photographic wonders at the Galerie Paris-Beijing - as always, without the aid of Photoshop or any other post-editing ...

Faux Facades: Fake Buildings Hide Trains, Power & More

When is a building not a building? When it is only a facade, (aka a) dummy! You might have passed right by train tunnels, communications towers or even entirely empty buildings and never realized ...

City Camouflage: Ugly Public Buildings in Disguise

Electricity substations, bathrooms and other less-than-aesthetically pleasing public buildings can stand out as eyesores on the street, taking away from the beauty of their surroundings. Dutch ...

Brick Farmhouse Facade Illusion via Photo-Printed Glass

For decades, no one could quite agree on what should go in this critical location between the town hall and central church in war-damaged Schijndel, Holland ... until MVDRV showed up with a ...

Public Camouflage: Make-Up Artist Makes Models Invisible

Illusion relies on expectation - we glance but only glimpse what is familiar and the rest blends neatly into the background, particularly as we go about our busy lives in a bustling urban ...

Invisible Boxes: Camouflaged Art Goes Postal, Hits the Street

Think: Liu Bolin's urban camouflage, but applied to packages that can stand to be left alone and attract, confuse and inspire passers by rather than requiring a person standing ...

Power Houses: Toronto Hydro’s Camouflaged Substations

Hiding in plain sight to provide energy and light! That's not Toronto Hydro's motto but it could be – for the better part of a century, the Canadian utility's policy was to design hundreds of ...

Camouflaged Human Canvas: Faux Body Art by Kim Joon

Jumbles of beheaded bodies, limbs entwined, torsos twisting, hands reaching out – in compositions that are both glaringly Asian-influenced and psychedelic – call to mind some orgiastic body ...

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