UNCLEAR

The previous post was hard and took times like its name “Observing”. Sometimes, to observe is not as easy like a paper is wet by the water, quick and immediate. Here that we very slowly received the flow of sense floating around and settling down in our mind. It’s interesting or not to unfold something depends on the thing you want to discover and your current mood. Let’s look at the picture below

What do you see?Ten vaguely Victorian-style illustrations of acrobats, precise vertical red hairlines, and a Baldessariesque black dot ?

Or something else?

We have studied about Typography and its rules to effectively express and display the word within its content. What we mostly aim to is learning to make types clear and the content sensible. But what actually happened to Michael Bierut the author of “Now you see it” is slightly different. He figured the picture out after such a long time trying to look at it. Sometimes, yes, sometimes the problems reveals only when we less notice. This made him both feel pity and exciting. He asked his friend who designed this book cover if anyone stupid like him and was replied that many people also could not figure out what the arrangement really mention about. But the editor liked it, he wanted it to be exactly like that, not clearer. So it is launched to confuse people and make itself a question to be solved.

So unclear is also an art, right?

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Now You See It