Optical illusions direct drivers around car park

Motorists who dread navigating their way around labyrinthine multi-storey car parks should have a much more enjoyable time in this tower block.

Huge signs exploit perspective to give clear directions to drivers in particular lanes, while appearing abstract and unreadable to other car users.

The huge coloured markings – which read Up, Down, In and Out – were installed in the 92-floor Eureka Tower in Melbourne, Australia, the world’s tallest residential building.

The lower 10 floors of the building house a private car park for 800 vehicles.

The signs are intended to convey clear information to motorists at key decision-making points, meaning drivers will no longer have to crane their necks looking for the directions that are meant for them.

Their size – covering the full height of the car park walls – and bold primary colours are also intended to help engage drivers.

The signs were created by a graphic design team including Australian Garry Emery and German Axel Peemoeller, and inspired by the work of Swiss artist Felice Varini, who uses perspective to create 3D illusions in public spaces.

The lettering was arranged by painting over text projected onto the walls from the perspective of drivers.

The car park directions have been honoured at several international design awards, including the 2007 SEGD Awards and the 2006 Good Design awards.

The Eureka Tower is 300 metres tall and houses 560 apartments, 13 lifts and an observation deck on the 88th storey that claims to be the highest viewing platform in the southern hemisphere.

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Cool! Amazing camouflage!!

Motorists who dread navigating their way around labyrinthine multi-storey car parks should have a much more enjoyable time in this tower block.

Huge signs exploit perspective to give clear directions to drivers in particular lanes, while appearing abstract and unreadable to other car users.

The huge coloured markings – which read Up, Down, In and Out – were installed in the 92-floor Eureka Tower in Melbourne, Australia, the world’s tallest residential building.

The lower 10 floors of the building house a private car park for 800 vehicles.

The signs are intended to convey clear information to motorists at key decision-making points, meaning drivers will no longer have to crane their necks looking for the directions that are meant for them.

Their size – covering the full height of the car park walls – and bold primary colours are also intended to help engage drivers.

The signs were created by a graphic design team including Australian Garry Emery and German Axel Peemoeller, and inspired by the work of Swiss artist Felice Varini, who uses perspective to create 3D illusions in public spaces.

The lettering was arranged by painting over text projected onto the walls from the perspective of drivers.

The car park directions have been honoured at several international design awards, including the 2007 SEGD Awards and the 2006 Good Design awards.

The Eureka Tower is 300 metres tall and houses 560 apartments, 13 lifts and an observation deck on the 88th storey that claims to be the highest viewing platform in the southern hemisphere.

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Food Art

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OK, this food could be aggressive, dangerous, over-designed and even alive - but is it eatable?

People would eat the darnedest things, depending on their cultural background and love of unique experiences. The point of this article (the first in a series) is to find the food that is not necessarily disgusting (in most cases it's only a matter of taste), but such food - and things made from food - that cause us to stop in the tracks and think twice before bringing it to our mouths.

Food as Art

Pierre Javelle & Akiko Ida (see their site Minimiam) make very special food landscapes where little people go around their business among the tasty morsels we eat for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Utilizing the variable depth of field, their photography is exceptional in creating the illusion of a miniature world.





Zooming in on the little figures, we see that they are hand-made using the old school skills, no computer trickery here:







Seeing all this miniature activity should cause you to examine your food more closely before taking a bite - who's this construction worker stuck in the cookie's crevasse?

Anime Food



Love your favorite anime characters? Have them with rice!
Asian creativity is put to good use in Hong Kong's fast-food establishments:











Dangerous Food:



Aggressive Food:



Over-grown Food:



Curious Food:



Unborn Food:



Geek-oriented food:
(chocolate bar)



Speaking of chocolate... you can lick the whole chocolate-covered Jeep!

Rotating Tower

Gedung yg bisa berputar 360 derajat - Rotating Tower

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Lagi-lagi Dubai membangun "keajaiban" di dunia. Dynamic Tower Dubai adalah gedung yang bisa bergerak sesuai kemauannya sendiri, berputar 360 derajat, gak cuma sekali, tapi bisa berkali - kali. Diperkenalkan di New York yang merupakan The World's First 'Building In Motion', yg disebut "Rotating Tower", didesain oleh arsitek Itali : David Fisher. Bangunan tersebut diharapkan akan selesai pada 2010 di Dubai, kemudian di Moscow





Bangunan ini memiliki 80 lantai, dengan tinggi sekitar 420 m (hampir sama tingginya sama menara Petronas). 10 lantai teratas akan digunakan untuk luxury villa style apartments kemudian 35 lantai dibawahnya untuk residential suites kemudian 15 lantai dibawahnya lagi untuk extravagant hotel dan 20 lantai terbawah untuk kantor dan pemasaran.





Tower yang didesain dengan bersegmen-segmen tersebut mempunyai titik pusat, dan memungkinkan tiap lantainya untuk berputar secara independen pada kecepatan yg berbeda, secara terus menerus, menggunakan teknologi voice recognition, buat menentukan arah putarannya. Hasilnya, pasti bikin gedung bentuknya jadi Unik banget. Bahasa untuk Voice Recognition ini diprogram agar bisa mengenali 'kiri' dan 'kanan' pada semua bahasa.



Tower tersebut berputar menggunakan energi photovoltaic cells teknologi turbin angin sebanyak 77 Turbin Angin.



Estimasi Biaya pembangunan Gedung tersebut adalah $700 JUTA. Melibatkan 600 tim dari Itali, dan 80 Tim yg diletakkan di lokasi pembangunan, selain Ribuan pekerja lainnya. Estimasi Harga per meter persegi $ 30.000.

Star Pattern

A time-lapse exposure captures the streaks made by stars over sandstone formations in Utah. Photographers capture "star trails," the movement of stars across the night sky, by keeping the camera shutter open for hours instead of seconds.



Star trails streak above palm trees in Baja California, Mexico.



Star streaks glow in a purple sky above the Mitten buttes of Monument Valley, Arizona.



Star trails spiral across the night sky above Joshua Tree National Park in California.



Star trails pop over Mariscal Canyon in Big Bend National Park, Texas.

Star trails radiate in the sky above trees in the Salmon River wilderness of Idaho.