In a work of large-scale urban camouflage, French street artist JR has made the iconic glass pyramid standing outside the Musée du Louvre disappear. At least, it seems to disappear, when viewed ...
Two-dimensional shapes seem to hover weightlessly in space like a projection, but step slightly to your right or left and the whole image falls apart, becoming a chaotic assemblage of lines ...
Intentionally fooling the eye to either completely disorient you or focus your vision on a certain part of a scene, these mirrored buildings reflect their surroundings, often seeming to disappear ...
Human faces loom over the city on the sides of skyscrapers, colorful characters cover industrial silos and Boeing airplanes and entire neighborhoods serve as canvases for optical illusions in ...
The blank concrete facades of urban Tehran offer an irresistible canvas for playful large-scale murals that seem to bend reality in unexpected ways. A city of 12 million people that has been ...
Cabins vanish into the landscape like a mirage, tiny rooms filled with stars somehow go on forever and treetops float in mid-air in these reality-distorting illusions made using mirrors. With ...
It's amazing what a few strokes of a black eyeliner can do - like create an unsettling optical illusion that makes it seem as if a girl has two faces. The 'Doublefaced' project by Sebastian ...
You might think artist Ben Heine has Photoshopped himself into his own pencil drawings, but he's actually standing on top of them. Much like the mind-bending optical illusions produced in chalk ...
From afar, it looks like a forgotten relic of a theme park that has since picked up and moved on - but it's actually a walkable sculpture. 'Tiger & Turtle - Magic Mountain', as it's named, ...
Blurring the line between reality and fiction, this urban camouflage photo series by French photographer Fred Lebain features posters that blend in almost perfectly with their environments. ...
